La Silla Observatory inauguration

This image, taken during the speeches at the inauguration of the La Silla Observatory on 25 March 1969, shows in the front row from left to right: Otto Heckmann (Director General of ESO), Gabriel Valdes S. (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile), Olof Palme (Minister of Education of Sweden), Eduardo Frei Montalva (President of the Republic of Chile), and Jan Hendrik Bannier (President of the ESO Council).