The federal authorities in July 1863, granted the Swiss Jews the fullest rights of citizens.

* 1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

The religious factions of Zwingli ’ s time debated vociferously regarding the merits of sending young Swiss men to fight in foreign wars mainly for the enrichment of the cantonal authorities.

In January 2011, Swiss authorities arrested several LTTE members on money laundering.

Although the authorities prevailed in this Swiss peasant war, they did pass some tax reforms and the incident in the long term prevented an absolutist development as would occur at some other courts of Europe.

After the war, Swiss authorities considered the construction of a Swiss nuclear bomb.

Thus far, Swiss authorities have blocked about 72 accounts totalling U. S .$ 22. 6 million.

The allegations were backed by Johansson, and the dossier was handed to the Swiss authorities, but they cleared Blatter of any wrongdoing and FIFA had to pay all the costs.

From there they went to Zürich, where the Swiss authorities decreed that to protect Swiss neutrality, Louis Philippe would have to leave the city.

The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 made it impossible for the Germans to participate further ( although they engaged a Swiss lawyer to represent their interests ), and also causing the French authorities to lose interest in prosecuting Grynszpan.

However, the Swiss authorities, worried about the implication of the Habsburgs living near the Austrian border, compelled them to move to the western part of the country.

The Swiss police were well aware of her presence, and telegrams to the appropriate authorities advising them to take all precautions had been dispatched.

The costs of the security measures, which are shared by the foundation and the Swiss cantonal and national authorities have also been frequently criticised in the Swiss national media.

There, he contacted the Swiss authorities.

In 1946 Gisevius was charged and acquitted by the Swiss authorities in a trial for espionage.

This is a variant of Frutiger used by Swiss authorities as the new font for traffic signs, replacing VSS since 2003.

When the authorities used military force to discontinue the extension of an originally peaceful protest strike in Zurich, on November 10, the committee gave Calonder the ultimatum to either call back the militia or accept the consequences of a nation-wide strike, Calonder declined in the name of the Federal Council, and on November 11, 1918, the committee called for an indefinite strike, now referred to as the Swiss General Strike.

In Switzerland, pardons may be granted by the Swiss Federal Assembly for crimes prosecuted by the federal authorities.

During WWII the Swiss authorities forbade all flights from Switzerland.

In 1945, the runway was enlarged to, and the authorities agreed to a 2. 3M Swiss Francs project to build a first terminal in Geneva.

One of such cache, which was identified by Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities tried to remove it from woods near Bern.

However nudists who appealed against their fines to the federal court have been reimbursed by the local authorities, as nudism is not a crime under Swiss federal law which takes precedence.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

At the same time, the company's administrator investigated possible legal steps against Swissair, and its successor Swiss International Airlines.

In Switzerland, a committee of experts investigated the policy of the Swiss government during the Porajmos.

Haramosh was first reconnoitered in 1947 by a Swiss team, and a German team investigated a northeastern route in 1955.

McGraw-Hill paid by checks made out to " H. R. Hughes ", which Irving's Swiss wife Edith deposited to a Swiss bank account that she had opened under the name of " Helga R. Hughes ".

* 1933 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.

* February 5 – H. R. Giger, Swiss artist

* August 14 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

On November 3, 1911, Swiss race car driver and automotive engineer Louis Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit with William C. Durant and investment partners William Little ( maker of the Little automobile ) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell ( son-in-law of Durant ) and in 1912 R. S. McLaughlin GEO of General Motors in Canada.

The artwork was a poster reproduction of the painting " Work 219: Landscape XX ", also known as " Penis Landscape " by Swiss painter H. R.

The town is home to the Giger Bar designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, the Old Town, the art gallery, and the natural history museum.

The drug is currently manufactured and sold as a racemate of the ( R, S )- and ( S, R )- enantiomers by Hoffman-LaRoche, a Swiss pharmaceutical company.

He focused on Weibel-Palade bodies ( a storage organelle unique to the endothelium, containing von Willebrand factor and various proteins ) which he described together with the Swiss anatomist Ewald R. Weibel.

* Gallery R: French, English and Swiss Paintings

Other Swiss artists of the period included R & B act The Nightbirds from Locarno, light rock stars The Wild Gentlemen, The Blue Sounds and pop band Marco Zappa & the Teenagers.

The album's cover is a 1976 painting called Meister und Margeritha ( Master and Margarita ) by famous Swiss artist H. R.

The Alien design is credited to Swiss surrealist and artist H. R. Giger, originating in a lithograph called Necronom IV and refined for the series ' first film, Alien.

Also hired for the project was Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger.

The scene when Catherine Deane is chasing Carl through a stone hallway, right before she enters the room with the horse, is based on a painting by Swiss surrealist H. R.

Weibel – Palade bodies were initially described by the Swiss anatomist Ewald R. Weibel and the Romanian physiologist George Emil Palade in 1964.

The creature was created and designed by Swiss artist H. R. Giger, who also created the creatures in the Alien films.

* Richard R. Ernst ( born 1933 ), Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate