Events in the year 1990 in Switzerland.
Incumbents Federal Council: Otto Stich Jean-Pascal Delamuraz Kaspar Villiger Arnold Koller (President) Flavio Cotti René Felber Adolf Ogi
Events 1 April – Six referendums are done, the subjects being four popular initiatives, a federal resolution on viticulture and an amendment to the federal law on the organisation of the federal judiciary. All six are rejected by voters.Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1932–1933 23 September – A further four referendums are held, on two popular initiatives to phase out nuclear power and to stop the construction of any new nuclear power plants, as well as on a federal resolution on the energy article in the Swiss Federal Constitution and an amendment to the federal law on road traffic. The nuclear power phase-out was rejected, but the other three proposals were approved.Nohlen & Stöver, p1933
Births 30 January – Luca Sbisa, ice hockey player 5 March – Léa Sprunger, track and field athlete 8 March – Alina Pätz, curler 1 May – Patrick Schelling, cyclist 22 June – Mario Dolder, biathlete 21 July – Whitney Toyloy, Swiss model, Miss Switzerland 2008 9 August – Anja Stiefel, ice hockey player 26 August – Marcel Aregger, cyclist 1 September – Mélanie René, singer and songwriter 5 October – Andreas Wittwer, footballer 2 December – Simon Schürch, rower
Deaths
31 May – Willy Spühler, politician (born 1902) 27 August – Armin Scheurer, athlete (born 1917) 21 November – Pierre Musy, bobsledder and horse rider (born 1910) 26 November – Ludwig von Moos, politician (born 1910) 30 December – Herman Volz, painter and designer (born 1904)
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