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A rocket loaded with a weather satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida and places the satellite in an orbit.

A weather satellite is placed in an orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A rocket loaded with a weather satellite is ready for launching. TIROS weather satellite revolves. Personnel work with a camera and tape recorders. Satellite cameras record and broadcast back the first systematic view of the earth's weather. Personnel working in a control room. The rocket is launched. It goes up vertically. It places the weather satellite in the orbit. A globe rotates. Animated diagram depicts how TIROS performs its historic mission. A personnel works in front of screens. Weather conditions shown on the screen.

Date: 1960, April 4
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072253
An atomic bomb explodes and a mushroom cloud rises as French personnel test its second A- bomb in the Sahara Desert in Algeria.

French personnel test the second A- bomb in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. The A-bomb test site for France in the Sahara desert. French personnel assemble for the country's second atomic bomb test and discuss. An official talks over a telephone. A button of equipment is pressed to initiate detonation of the bomb. The nuclear device explodes. A mushroom cloud rises.

Date: 1960, April 4
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072254
Pope John XXIII is carried on the sedia gestatoria and he elevates new cardinals in Rome, Italy.

Pope John XXIII elevates new cardinals in Vatican City. In St. Peter's Basilica, Pope John XXIII being carried on the sedia gestatoria chair with large white ostrich fans (flabella). The Pope is placed on a raised platform. The Archbishop of Tokyo, Cardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi, is elevated as the first Japanese cardinal in history. Cardinal Doi receives the Pope’s blessing. Pope John XXIII elevates Archbishop Laurean Rugambwa of Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania) as the first modern native African Cardinal. The new cardinals bend their head towards the altar.

Date: 1960, April 4
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072255
Culinary artists present their food items in various shapes at the National Restaurant Convention in Toronto, Canada.

Culinary artists present food items in various shapes in Toronto, Canada. Culinary artists present their food items for display at the National Restaurant Convention. Food items are in various shapes like the Taj Mahal, a peacock, a man, a cathedral, a table and an airport.

Date: 1960, April 4
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072256
Horses participate and Bally Ache wins the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park racetrack in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

Bally Ache wins the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park racetrack in Hallandale Beach, Florida. The Florida Derby starts. Spectators watch the race. American thoroughbred race horses run on the race track as jockeys ride them. Th spectators cheer. Racehorse Bally Ache jockeyed by Robert N. "Bobby" Ussery wins the race and becomes eligible for competing in the Kentucky Derby.

Date: 1960, April 4
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072257
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev arrives in Paris, France for pre-summit talks with President de Gaulle.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev arrives in Paris, France. French President Charles de Gaulle arrives with other officials at an airport to greet him. An airplane arrives at the airport. Khrushchev along with other officials disembarking from the airplane. He arrives for pre-summit talks with President de Gaulle. Soldiers standing in formation at the airport. Building in the background. Cameramen recording the event. Dignitaries seated in a car passing along a street. People gather along the sides of the street. People cheer. The dignitaries place wreaths at the memorial of unknown soldiers of France.

Date: 1960, March 24
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076540