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Swiss National Day (German: Schweizer Bundesfeiertag; French: Fête nationale suisse; Italian: Festa nazionale svizzera; Romansh: Festa naziunala svizra) is the national holiday of Switzerland, set on 1 August. Although the founding of the Swiss Confederacy was first celebrated on this date in 1891 and annually since 1899, it has only been an ...
On September 26, 2011, The New York Times published an article about the island, stating the property would go up for auction on October 2, 2011. [3] It was sold at that auction for $160,000 to 71-year-old retired Port Authority worker Alex Schibli, a Swiss [ 4 ] resident of nearby City Island . [ 5 ]
The Charter documents the Eternal Alliance of the League of the Three Forest Cantons (German: Ewiger Bund der Drei Waldstätten), the union of three cantons in what is now central Switzerland. It is dated to early August 1291, which in the 20th century inspired the date of Swiss National Day, 1 August.
As such it is treated as a national monument of Switzerland. Since 1860, the Schweizerische Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft (SGG) has organized a celebration at the site on Swiss National Day (August 1), since 1994 recognized as a public holiday. Rütli is only accessible by boat from Lake Lucerne or by foot from Seelisberg.
Officials at The Swiss National Park said any significant reduction in the numbers of wolves would make it harder for them to control the numbers of red deer that were harming the forests.
April 9 – New York Yankees, winners of the World Series. April 12 – New York Mets, upon entering the National League. [1] April 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Empress Farah of Iran. May 25 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of Ivory Coast. June 5 – Scott Carpenter, following the Mercury 7 mission.
For National Cookie Day, the sandwich chain is giving 10,000 customers a chance to win one free cookie every day through the end of the year. ... The first 100 customers at the bakery locations in ...
Switzerland held observer status in several United Nations (UN) organs since 1948, but did not join the UN over neutrality concerns [2] and was a full member only of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. [2] In March 2002, the people of Switzerland voted to join the UN, and Switzerland became a member in September of that year. [3]