UBS then continued to grow through acquisitions, including Aargauische Kreditanstalt in 1919, Eidgenössische Bank in 1945, Interhandel Basel in 1967, Phillips & Drew in 1986, and Schroder, Munchmeyer, Hengst & Co. in 1997 among others.

Engel led Basel to a fifth-place finish in his first season in charge and a solid mid-table finish in 1997, but he was sacked after a poor start to the 1997 – 98 campaign, in which Basel finished second-last.

In addition, the choir has been invited to participate in important music festivals, including the Lucerne Festival under James Conlon, Mario Venzago, Riccardo Chailly and Mariss Jansons, the European Music Festival in Berlin under Roland Bader, the International Festival of Boys Choirs in Poznań ( Poland ), as well as festivals in Nancy, Maastricht, Venice, Basel, and the Schubert Choir Festival in Vienna in 1997.

Schweighauser, Basel 1847. reprint: Keip, Goldbach 1997, ISBN 3-8051-0688-2

* Mona Hatoum ( essay by Giorgio Verzotti ), Milan: Charta 1998 Mona Hatoum ( essays by Madeleine Schuppli and Briony Fer ), Basel: Kunsthalle Basel 1997

Renzo Piano, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1998, is the architect of the Center ’ s building ; he had been selected after Nasher met him at the opening of the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, in 1997.

Basel, 1848 ( Reprint edition: Köln: ISP-Verlag, 1997 ISBN 3-929008-94-7 )

with G. Bornet, 1997, Basel: Birkhäuser ), lxvi + 236 pages. Introduction and editorial material.

The movement was announced publicly in 1997, presented at the 1998 Basel Watch Fair and first appeared commercially in the Credor ' luxury watch ' range as a limited edition in 1999.

* 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $ 71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

* Philippe Rochat ( Switzerland ) ( 1991 – 1997 )

He died in 1997 in Tenero-Contra, Locarno, Switzerland.

In 1996 Switzerland joined NATO's Partnership for Peace, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in 1997, and deployed Yellow Berets to support the OSCE in Bosnia.

For instance, in 1997, Lionel Jospin's government began using the feminine noun " la ministre " to refer to a female minister, following the official practice of Canada, Belgium and Switzerland and a common, though until then unofficial, practice in France.

In 2005, the Fugees embarked on a European tour — their first together since 1997 — from November 30 to December 20, playing in Finland, Austria, Norway, Germany, Italy, France, England, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Slovakia.

In 1997, prior to its merger with Swiss Bank Corporation, UBS operated 275 branches in Switzerland and 82 branches, subsidiaries and representative offices outside Switzerland.

In January 1997, Christoph Meili, a night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland, found employees shredding archives compiled by a subsidiary that had extensive dealings with Nazi Germany.

On 8 December 1997, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation announced an all stock merger.

* September 1997 " Congo "-# 29 UK, # 35 Austria, # 31 Germany, # 32 Switzerland, # 25 U. S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks

Evans has also received the Aaron Siskind Fellowship in Photography, several fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Silver Prize for Colour Photography at the International Triennial Exhibition ( in Switzerland ) and Providence's Renaissance Award in 1997.

* Arranged and Conducted – 1997 – Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

His first international experience came in the 1997 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, hosted by Switzerland.

* Bob Dylan was hospitalized due to histoplasmosis in 1997, causing the cancellation of concerts in the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

* Musee des Beaux-Arts du Locle, Le Locle ( Switzerland ) May 3 to June 22, 1997

* Ecailles, Ailes, Griffes et Feu / Illustrations for A Diversity of Dragons-La Maison d ' Ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains ( Switzerland ), October 21 to November 16, 1997

1997 – Red Cross benefit in Switzerland and projects in Portugal

Thornton was named to Canada's national under-20 team for the 1997 World Junior Championships in Switzerland.

She was a member of the administration of President Bill Clinton, serving as deputy secretary of education of the United States from 1993 until 1997, when she became the ambassador to her native Switzerland, as well as to Liechtenstein.

Swiss Bank began the 1990s as the weakest of the " Big Three " Swiss banks but by the end of 1997 would be the driving force behind the merger with Union Bank of Switzerland.

On December 8, 1997, Union Bank of Switzerland and SBC announced an all stock merger.

He played for many years on the European chess circuit, before marrying and moving to Neuchâtel in Switzerland, taking Swiss nationality, being awarded the title of Grandmaster, and then winning the British Chess Championship in 2001 and the Swiss Chess Championship in 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2012.

He has represented his adopted country Switzerland regularly at the Chess Olympiad and at the European Team Chess Championship since 1997, his best result occurring at the 2006 Chess Olympiad, when he scored 6½ / 10.

Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.

Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

The Basel Regional S-Bahn, the commuter rail network connecting to suburbs surrounding the city, is jointly operated by SBB, SNCF and DB.

** Basel SBB railway station

** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.

* Basel SBB in Switzerland.

* Geneva Airport – Biel / Bienne – Delémont – Basel SBB

* Lausanne – Biel / Bienne – Delémont – Basel SBB

* Basel SBB – Lucerne – Gotthard – Lugano – Chiasso