Tomorrow is Bonfire Night in Switzerland!
The Swiss National Holiday celebrates the founding of the Confederation Helvetica in 1291. A citizen of each of the states Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden climbed to the top of a small mountain called Rütli and swore "We will be a single nation of brothers"
It took them 524 years to complete their task, as it wasn't until 1815, that the last Cantons joined in the fun. And it wasn't until 1994, that it was considered important enough to be worth celebrating.

One of The Three, is often stated to have been the Swiss national hero William Tell, who supposedly had an active part in helping free those parts of Switzerland, that were under Austrian rule a the time.
A few years after the brotherhood was declared, Tell forgot to greet a hat hanging in the streets of Uri. The hat just happened to belong to the Austrian Protector of the area, Gessler, and he, somehow, wasn't too pleased about Tell's negligence and ...
... well, you know the story anyway, because you saw the television series in the 60s just after Robin Hood's third round of repeats!

The thing is, though, where as we have signed documents from our Guy Fawkes, declaring, that it's o.k. for us to set fire to the Houses of Parliament every fifth of November, there is no proof of William Tell's existence. There are no records of the family name Tell, Täll or Tello in Uri - officially he was never born, never got married and never died. In fact, if the German playwright Schiller, hadn't written a play about the whole affair, it would have been forgotten by today.

If Tell didn't exist, then the Confederation Helvetica couldn't have been formed, Switzerland never have been liberated from Austrian tyrants and we couldn't have fireworks tomorrow.
That being the case, I would like to thank Mr. Schiller, for giving us the day off work tomorrow, to let us celebrate his great play!