Annual Finland v. Sweden athletics meet at Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Day II.
First attempts by the United States to send a rocket to the moon, in Florida. The Library of the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, 100 years (e.g., a relief by Wäinö Aaltonen). 13th UN Da...
From the North Pole to the Black Sea: filming Satua Sammosta, a Finnish-Soviet joint production. Aleksandr Ptushko’s film Satua Sammosta, based on the Finnish national epic Kalevala, begins filming ...
Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson in Helsinki: the boxer arrives at Seutula Airport, the fighters are weighed. Risto Luukkonen wins the European Boxing Championship at Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Representatives of Japanese human rights associations arrive in Finland for the MRA World Congress. Swimming school graduation at the Helsinki Swimming Stadium. Finnish Americans lay a wreath at the w...
Lepaa Horticultural College is 50 years old. The French navy visits Helsinki South Harbour. U.S. swimming show at Ahvenisto in Hämeenlinna. Gymnastics at the Prague Spartakiad (foreign material). Flo...
Funeral of the victims of Torpedo boat S2’s accident in 1925 and commemoration in 1960. Industrial art exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki. ‘A Hundred Years Ago’ exhibition at the Finnish National...
President Kekkonen in Westminster Abbey, Covent Garden, at Lord Mayor’s dinner, visiting a car factory in Oxford. Ballet from Bolshoi Theatre and opera from Italy at the Finnish National Opera. 30th...