* September 19 – Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrì-Piotta founded.

Alpine skiing began as a club sport 1861 at Kiandra in Australia and a number of similar clubs in North America and the Swiss Alps.

Vaduz also has a local professional association football club, FC Vaduz which, as the other clubs in Liechtenstein, plays in the Swiss Football League.

Starting in the 2008 – 2009 season, FC Vaduz became the first Liechtenstein club to play in the Swiss Super League, Switzerland's top flight.

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David Aebischer returned home with Alex Tanguay to play for Swiss club HC Lugano ; Milan Hejduk and Peter Forsberg returned to their former teams in their native countries, HC Pardubice and Modo Hockey.

On 8 July 2009 the club was purchased by Swiss businessman Markus Liebherr, who died on 10 August 2010.

* FC Concordia Basel, Swiss football club, playing in the Challenge League

Founded in 1962, the club can demonstrate some success in the Swiss amateur football.

* Grasshopper Club Zürich, a Swiss sports club

Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel.

They are one of the most successful clubs in Swiss football, having won the Swiss Super League 15 times, the third most for any Swiss club.

They have been in the Champions League more times than any other Swiss club — a total of four times — and are the only Swiss club to have ever qualified directly for the Champions League group stages.

As Swiss champions, Basel entered the Champions League third qualifying round against German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.

As Swiss champions, Basel entered the UEFA Champions League in the second qualifying round and were drawn against Estonian club Flora Tallinn winning 5 – 0 on aggregate and in the third round they were drawn against Norwegian club Molde FK winning 2 – 1 on aggregate.

Since January 2012 he plays for Swiss Challenge League club AC Bellinzona.

He is the younger brother of international football player Murat Yakin ( former member of the Swiss national football team ), who is currently manager of the Swiss Swiss Super League club FC Luzern.

* Adrian Sieber ( born 1972 ), Swiss singer and the lead singer in the Swiss Britpop band Lovebugs

Albrecht von Haller, a Swiss physician and physiologist made note in his 1747 book on physiology that the " water " in the brain was secreted into the ventricles and absorbed in the veins, and when secreted in excess, could lead to hydrocephalus.

* Karl Jakob Weber ( 1712 – 1764 ), Swiss architect and engineer ; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae

His final screen-work was playing the lead role in Dr. Fischer of Geneva ( adapted from the Graham Greene novella, 1985 ) as the eccentric wealthy businessman who played games with the Swiss upper class, such as offering gifts to his guests on the proviso they accepted some humiliating ritual activity ( such as wearing a child's bib at the dinner table ).

Chart entries continued to be reached on a regular basis by the multiple releases of the labels broad artist roster, although being overshadowed by the death of Swiss Gotthards lead singer Steve Lee in a motorcycle accident in the USA.

The Duke is also thought to have lied about his whereabouts when the Palace at Versailles was stormed in the early hours of the morning on the 6th of October, having stated he was at the General Assembly in Paris, yet several witnesses ( including the Marquise de la Tour du Pin ) saw him lead the bloodthirsty mob to a staircase leading to the Queen's bedroom, protected by Swiss Guards.

Of these main roads, a great number lead into France rather than any Swiss canton.

Daniel Majstorović restored the lead for Basel with a header and Swiss internationals Marco Streller and Benjamin Huggel scored one goal each to make the final scoreline 4 – 1 in Basel's favour.

At about the same time, a major Eduard Rubin ( 1846 – 1920 ) with the Swiss Army had invented in 1883 a copper jacketed lead cored and small bore ( 7. 5mm and 8mm ) bullet that could be fired at very high velocities without melting inside a rifle's barrel.

The settlement of Tetyukhe was founded in 1897, with the founding of a lead and zinc mine by Swiss immigrant Julius Brynner.

The Swiss Reinsurance Company was the lead insurer of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks which led to an insurance dispute with the owner, Silverstein Properties.

The two curricula for the different language programs are, in theory identical, other than the fact that they are in two different languages and ultimately lead to two different diplomas, with the English language program leading to the International Baccalaureate ( or a High School Certificate with graduation one year earlier ), and the French language program leading to the Swiss Maturité Fédérale.

Its 105 meters of track lead from the Marzili neighbourhood to the Bundeshaus, the seat of the Swiss federal government and parliament, in the Old City of Bern.

He served under Napoleon I and held the office of General to lead the Swiss forces to victory against the Sonderbund.

On 25 November 2005, the lead investigator for the Council of Europe, Swiss lawmaker Dick Marty announced that he had obtained latitude and longitude coordinates for suspected black sites, and he was planning to use satellite imagery over the last several years as part of his investigation.

These three, while their works were not specifically Swiss, lead the golden age of French literature in Switzerland.

Fittipaldi was now carving chunks out the BRM's lead, due to a left-rear puncture for the Swiss.

Regazzoni's win, coupled with Niki Lauda's first lap crash put the Swiss Ferrari driver back into the lead of the championship he had previous held earlier in the year.

In 1987 he presented a paper at the international conference of the Mormon History Association in Oxford, where he started a long-lasting co-operation with Swiss historian Jean-François Mayer and with the Utah lawyer and historian Michael W. Homer, which would eventually lead to the establishment of CESNUR in 1988.

In a Swiss system tournament, sometimes a player may have picked up such a great lead that by the last round he is assured of winning the tournament even if he loses the last game.

As a result of the symposium, the Swiss National Science Foundation set up a project to develop levels of proficiency, to lead on to the creation of a " European Language Portfolio "-certification in language ability which can be used across Europe.

Under Swiss law, insolvency or foreclosure may lead to the seizure and auctioning off of assets ( generally in the case of private individuals ) or to bankruptcy proceedings ( generally in the case of registered commercial entities ).

The tradition of a group of gentlemen inviting master chefs to lead them in preparing elaborate meals began in Europe many years ago, and was introduced to North America over thirty years ago by Swiss immigrants.

The latter, members of two regiments of Swiss mercenaries transported by Great Britain to Canada to fight the Americans in the War of 1812, had settled in Montreal and Kingston at the close of the war in 1815.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

An early theory, suggested by Swiss theologian Jean LeClerc in the 17th century, posits that the longer Western version was a first draft, while the Alexandrian version represents a more polished revision by the same author.

* 1792 – French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace – Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.

The Habsburgs founded a number of monasteries ( with some structures enduring, e. g., in Wettingen and Muri ), the closing of which by the government in 1841 was a contributing factor to the outbreak of the Swiss civil war – the " Sonderbund War " – in 1847.

Fricktal, ceded in 1802 by Austria via Napoleonic France to the Helvetic Republic, was briefly a separate Swiss canton under a Statthalter (' Lieutenant '), but on 9 March 1803 was incorporated in the canton of Aargau.

* 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

As the attack faltered, eight squadrons of elite Gens d ' Armes, commanded by the veteran Swiss officer, Beat-Jacques von Zurlauben, fell upon the English troops, cutting at the exposed flank of Rowe's own regiment.

The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.

In the open country between Taviers and Ramillies, he placed 82 squadrons under General de Guiscard supported by several interleaved brigades of French, Swiss and Bavarian infantry.

The small Swiss garrison in the village, shaken by the sudden onslaught and unsupported by the battalions to their rear, were soon compelled back towards the village of Taviers.

The assault consisted of 12 battalions of Dutch infantry commanded by Major Generals Schultz and Spaar ; two brigades of Saxons under Count Schulenburg ; a Scottish brigade in Dutch service led by the 2nd Duke of Argyle ; and a small brigade of Protestant Swiss.

The folding pocketknife and utility tool is typified by the Camper or Boy Scout pocketknife, the U. S. folding utility knife, the Swiss Army Knife, and by multi-tools fitted with knife blades.

Brick was revived for high structures in the 1950s following work by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Building Research Establishment in Watford, UK.

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 ).