Tag: Switzerland

Podcast

9th January 1349: Jews massacred in Basel during the Black Death persecutions

9th January 2023
Tagged as: Anti-Semitism, Basel, Black Death, Judaism, Plague, Rhine, Switzerland

The Jewish population of Basel were massacred amidst accusations that they were responsible for causing the Black Death.

Podcast

24th May 1956: 1st Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Switzerland

24th May 2021
Tagged as: Entertainment, Europe, Eurovision, Israel, Music, Switzerland, Television

On the 24^th May 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland.

Podcast

1st April 1944: The USAAF accidentally bomb the neutral Swiss town of Schaffhausen instead of a German chemical factory

1st April 2021
Tagged as: Air Force, America, Bomb, Germany, Second World War, Switzerland, United States, USAAF

While flying over France, the formations experienced high winds that blew them dramatically off course.

Podcast

16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

16th April 2020
Tagged as: Bolshevik, Communism, Communist, Exile, Finland, First World War, Germany, Lenin, Nicholas II, Politics, Provisional Government, Revolution, Russian Revolution, Saint Petersburg, Switzerland

Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.