Britain’s industrial exhibition in Helsinki: naval visit, air show over Helsinki South Harbour, the Lord Mayor arrives and visits the Presidential Palace, opening parade from the Market Square to th...
Events in the Middle East (foreign material). Demonstrations in China against the Western attack (foreign material). Sauna exhibition at Stockmann department store. New type of crane is introduced. Fe...
An explosion on the tanker Tupavuori in Naantali. Murtaja II is launched at the Wärtsilä Shipyard in Hietalahti, Helsinki. The new ambassador of Norway presents his credentials to the president. The...
Funeral service of composer Aarre Merikanto. Wihuri grants awarded in the University of Helsinki Great Hall; Shostakovich is granted the Sibelius Composer Award. The Dutch ambassador lays a wreath at ...
Opening ceremony of the 8th International Theatre Congress in the Great Hall of the University of Helsinki. Opening ceremony of a theatre exhibition at the Helsinki School of Economics. Funeral of for...
Schools are out for summer. New secondary school graduates. Ceremonial Conferment in the spring of 1960: festivities and an ice-breaker voyage. Karelian Summer Festival in Helsinki: track and field on...
The Israeli ambassador presents his credentials to the President of the Republic. The Great Finnish Fair (Suomen Suurmessut) opening on Töölö ball field. Posters from the Finlandia poster competiti...
President Kekkonen’s official visit to Norway; leaving from the airport in Seutula and a brief visit to Stockholm and Oslo by train. Arrival at the railway station. Procession to the royal palace. B...