1990 in Switzerland
- 1989 in Switzerland - 1990 in Switzerland - 1991 in Switzerland
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Government in January 1st, 1990
- Federal council
- Arnold Koller PDC, president of the Confederation
- Flavio Cotti PDC, vice-president of the Confederation
- Otto Stich PS
- Kaspar Villiger PRD
- Adolf Ogi UDC
- Jean-Pascal Delamuraz PRD,
- Rene Felber PS,
Events
January
Tuesday January 30th- After 27 years of legal procedures, Mr. Henri-Louis Fentener will be able to live the villa which it had made build with Saint-Sulpice (VD) in 1960 and which exceeded of forty centimetres the prescribed height. This business had been started by the complaint of a nearby owner.
February
Saturday February 3rd- Official visit of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president of the Mexico.
- Official visit of Wojciech Jaruzelski, president of the Republic of Poland.
- Arrest in Brazil of the Jurassic swindler Andre Plumey.
- Collision enters an international express train and a composition of service to Saxon. The accident results in the death of three passengers.
- Accused of violation of the secrecy of function, the federal ex-adviser Elisabeth Kopp and her two collaborators Katharina Schoop and Renate Schwob are discharged by the Federal court.
March
Saturday March 3rd- Plus of 30.000 people expresses with Bern for to finish with the police State of It, claiming an access to the files of the Confederation and the abolition of the political police. Some breakers causes incidents by forcing the entry of the Public ministry of the Confederation and by putting fire at a bank and cars.
- Cantonal elections in the Canton of Vaud. Jacques Martin (PRD), White Marcel (UDC), Claude Ruey (PLS), Pierre Cevey (PRD), Philippe Pidoux (PRD), Daniel Schmutz (PS) and Pierre Duvoisin (PS) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
- For the fourth time of its history, HC Lugano becomes champion of Switzerland of hockey-on-ice.
- Cantonal elections with the Grison . Joachim Caluori (PDC), Christoffel Brändli (UDC) and Luzi Bärtsch (UDC) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
- Strike with the Tribune de Genève. The publication of the newspaper is stopped during six days.
- Cantonal elections with Glaris. Kaspar Rhyner (PRD), Fritz Weber (PRD), of Jules Landolt (PDC), Christian-Democrat, Christoph Stüssi (UDC), Kaspar Zimmermann (UDC), Werner Marti (PS) and Rudolf Gisler (PDC) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
- Holdup with the seat of UBS to Geneva. 31,3 franc million is carried by the authors, who will be stopped at the end of May.
April
Sunday the 1st er April- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1255175 not (71,5%) against: 500605 yes (28,5%), the popular initiative Halt with the concreting - for a stabilization of the highway network .
- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1175333 not (67,3%) against: 571640 yes (32,7%), the popular initiative for an area without highway between Morat and Yverdon .
- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1197678 not (68,6%) against: 547353 yes (31,4%), the popular initiative for a district of Knonau without highways .
- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 1147434 not (66,0%) against: 592231 yes (34,0%), the popular initiative against the construction of a highway between Bienne and Soleure/Zuchwil .
- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 881601 not (53,3%) against: 771186 yes (46,7%), the federal decree on the vine growing.
- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 862524 not (52,6%) against: 775870 yes (47,4%), modification of the legal federal law of organization.
- Cantonal elections with the Grison . Aluis Maissen (PDC) and Peter Aliesch (PRD) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 2nd ballot.
- Beginning of the construction of the place of weapons of Neuchlen-Anschwilen, above Gossau. Opponents settle near the building site to try to prevent work.
- the Iranian opponent Kazem Radjavi is cut down near her residence, with Coppet.
- Cantonal elections with Bern. Peter Schmid (UDC), Peter Siegenthaler (UDC), Ueli Augsburger (UDC), Peter Bärtschi (PS), Peter Widmer (PRD), Hermann Fehr (PS) and Mario Annoni (PRD) are elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
May
Friday May 9th- Inauguration of the first section of Rail 2000 , between Cham and Zoug.
- Official visit of Giulio Andreotti, president of the Italian Council.
- the Network regional express of Zurich, known under the name of " S-Bahn" , is brought into service on 380 km of railways.
- FC Grasshopper is allocated, for twenty-and-unième time of its history, the title of champion of Switzerland of football.
- Death of Willy Spühler, former federal adviser.
June
Tuesday June 19th- Varnishing of the traditional exposition to the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani with the Foundation Pierre Gianadda with Martigny.
- the Irishman Sean Kelly gains the Tour of Switzerland cyclist
July
Monday July 2nd- Jose Ribeaud succeeds François Gross as editor association of Freedom, with Freiburg.
August
Saturday August 18th- the single one gaining lottery with numbers empoche more than 18 franc million. It is about the largest sum boxed up to now by a forecaster.
September
Thursday September 6th- Inauguration of the Swiss Center of paraplegic to Nottwil.
- Official visit of Joaquim Chissano, president of the Mozambique.
- Death of the Germanic journalist Iris von Roten-Meyer.
- Official visit of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- federal Votings. The people reject, by: 915739 not (52,9%) against: 816289 yes (47,1%), the popular initiative for a progressive abandonment of atomic energy .
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 946077 yes (54,5%) against: 789209 not (45,5%), the popular initiative Halt with the construction of nuclear plants .
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 1214925 yes (71,1%) against: 493841 not (28,9%), the constitutional article on energy.
- federal Votings. The people approve, by: 899051 yes (52,8%) against: 803621 not (47,2%), modification of the federal law on the road traffic.
- Death of the former adviser of Genevese State Andre Chavanne.
October
Wednesday October 10th- 5000 employees of public transport and civils servant of the canton and the town of Geneva observe a one half-day sick leave to protest against the decision of the authorities to remove an allowance of correction of inflation.
- Official visit of the prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein and its wife Marie Aglaé.
- Cantonal elections in the the Jura. François Lachat is the only elected official with the government at the time of the 1st ballot.
November
Thursday the 1st er November- a first case of encéphalite bovine spongiform, known as disease of the mad cow, is discovered in Switzerland, after the examination of the brain of an cash cow of the the Bernese Jura.
- Cantonal elections in the the Jura. Pierre Boillat (PDC), Gaston Brahier (PRD), Jean-Pierre Beuret (PCSI) and François Mertenat (PS) are elected with the government at the time of the 2nd ballot.
- Plus of 10.000 Swiss, German and French peasants expresses in Geneva against the agreements of GATT.
- a DC-9 of Alitalia is crushed by approaching the airport of Zurich-Kloten. The 46 occupants of the apparatus are killed.
- Official visit of the Czechoslovakian president Václav Havel.
- Death of Ludwig von Moos, former federal adviser.
- the Federal court grants the right to vote with the Rhodos-Interior women of Appenzell. Up to now, this demicanton had always refused this right.
December
Sunday complementary December 2nd- Elections in Argovie. Thomas Pfisterer (PRD) is elected with the Council of State at the time of the 1st ballot.
- Death of the writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
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