1990 in Switzerland

Chronology of Switzerland

1989 in Switzerland - 1990 in Switzerland - 1991 in Switzerland

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Government in January 1st, 1990

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 Monday February 5th Saturday February 10th
  • Arrest in Brazil of the Jurassic swindler Andre Plumey.
Friday February 16th
  • Collision enters an international express train and a composition of service to Saxon. The accident results in the death of three passengers.
Friday February 23rd
  • 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.
Sunday March 4th
  • 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.
Thursday March 8th
  • For the fourth time of its history, HC Lugano becomes champion of Switzerland of hockey-on-ice.
Sunday March 11th
  • 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.
Thursday March 15th
  • Strike with the Tribune de Genève. The publication of the newspaper is stopped during six days.
Sunday March 18th
  • 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.
Sunday March 25th
  • 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.
Thursday April 5th
  • 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.
Tuesday April 24th Sunday April 29th
  • 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.
Monday May 14th Sunday May 27th
  • the Network regional express of Zurich, known under the name of " S-Bahn" , is brought into service on 380 km of railways.
Wednesday May 30th
  • FC Grasshopper is allocated, for twenty-and-unième time of its history, the title of champion of Switzerland of football.
Thursday May 31st

June

Tuesday June 19th
  • Varnishing of the traditional exposition to the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani with the Foundation Pierre Gianadda with Martigny.
Friday June 22nd
  • the Irishman Sean Kelly gains the Tour of Switzerland cyclist

July

Monday July 2nd

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.
Tuesday September 11th Wednesday September 20th Sunday September 23rd
  • 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.
Tuesday September 25th

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.
Wednesday October 17th Sunday October 21st
  • 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.
Sunday November 4th
  • 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.
Tuesday November 13rd
  • Plus of 10.000 Swiss, German and French peasants expresses in Geneva against the agreements of GATT.
Wednesday November 14th
  • a DC-9 of Alitalia is crushed by approaching the airport of Zurich-Kloten. The 46 occupants of the apparatus are killed.
Thursday November 22nd Monday November 26th Tuesday November 27th
  • 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.
Friday December 14th

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