Eighteen teams from ten countries participate in the World Bobsledding Championship in Germany. Participants perform on the icy track. People watch the event. Italy wins the Championship.
View of Mont Blanc in the Alps. A cable car in transit. French and Italian workers riding on an open narrow gauge railroad train carrying cases of champagne to celebrate the "holing through" of a 7 mile tunnel,through Mont Blanc from Chamonix, on the French side of the mountain, to Courmayeur in Italy. It is to facilitate road travel directly between the two countries. Workers fasten French and Italian flags,to the tunnel wall. Professor Loris Corbi, in charge of the Italian tunneling project is seen with his French counterpart, Professor Andre Borie, as they exchange congratulatory kisses. The French and Italian workers cheer and celebrate this remarkable engineering achievement.
The Mont Blanc tunnel being built in France. View of snow covered peak of Mont Blanc and gondola on steel cable ascending mountain. French and Italian workers inside the tunnel celebrate the completion of the tunnel from Chamonix, on the French side of the mountain, to Courmayeur, on the Italian side, cutting the road travel distance between Paris, France and Rome, Italy by 125 miles. Italian and French officials celebrate during the ceremony. Civil Engineer and Professor Loris Corbi, head of the Italian team, greets André Borie, the lead French Civil Engineer. Workers celebrate and drink champagne to toast the achievement.
Pope John XXIII presides over final meeting of the First Session of the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church at St. Peter's Basilica (Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City) in the Vatican City. Two thousand cardinals, bishops, and other prelates of the Roman Catholic Church are in attendance. The altar with Bernini's baldacchino stands in the middle of the meeting. The Council granted Bishops more authority regarding the use of modern languages in the liturgy of the church. The Pope is quoted as saying He has "heard the voice of the whole Catholic World." Attendees are seen leaving St. Peter's after the end of the session. (Note: This was one of the activities undertaken during The Second Vatican Council, also known as “Vatican II," which focused on relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world.)