Soviet Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva visiting Finland: Reception at the railway station. At the office of Armi Hosia, Minister of Education. National Theatre. Arabia’s ceramics factories. T...
The Spring Expo opens. The International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Associations holds its general assembly at the House of the Estates in Helsinki. Social awareness discourse days at the Univers...
40th anniversary of the Constitution of Finland. General Lagus’ last journey. Forest fire at Lammainen in Nakkila. First Finnish truck is headed for Paris. Tatu Pekkarinen’s play Hekemooni at the ...
Classic car parade in Helsinki. American photographer Edward Steichen’s exhibition ‘The Family of Man’. What are acceptable topics of discussion in Finland, and what are not? A discussion on the...
The United States launches the Titan ICBM into orbit (foreign material). The Soviet Communist Party of holds its 21st general assembly at the Kremlin in Moscow (foreign material). The new Soviet ambas...
Excerpts from an airplane crash of an Aero DC-3 at Koivulahti, about 15 kilometres from Vaasa Airport, on 3 January 1961. The first catastrophe in Finnish aviation history killed 25 people. Doll show ...
Signing of trade agreement between Finland and the Soviet Union. Photographic exhibition at Expo (Pohjakallio, Bremer and Saves). Port site in Inkoo. Father Christmas arrives in Helsinki by helicopter...
Unveiling of the portrait of Liisa Orko, chairperson of the Finnish Women’s Physical Education Federation. 11th exhibition of the Nordic Art Association. Swedish Foreign Minister Nilsson in Finland....