Helsinki Craft Institute inaugurated. Czechoslovakian industrial fair in Finland. Finnish Mark (markka) a hundred years old. Vaajakoski, an industrial community in Central Finland, introduced to the p...
‘Every teen’s idol Paul Anka arrives to charm a Finnish crowd, known for its reserve.’ Anka drew an audience of 25,000 to Linnanmäki amusement park on 19 August 1959. The new ambassador for the...
Vice President Nixon in Moscow (foreign material). Fire destroys a storage space owned by Adams-Filmi at the corner of Mikonkatu and Kaisaniemenkatu in Helsinki. Gynaecologists’ Congress at the Univ...
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...
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Finland: arrival at Helsinki Airport, visiting Prime Minister Lehto, talks at the Presidential Palace, visit to the grave of former President Paasikivi. Japanese dol...
Funeral of Unto-Pekka Matikainen, the Finnish soldier who was killed in Cyprus, at the Hietaniemi cemetery. Press conference of the national peatland forest competition at Oulunsalo in Helsinki (KOP b...
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 ...