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2013 Event - The Arctic Council, an international forum that addresses issues faced by Arctic governments and the Arctic's indigenous people, gives China, India and four other nations observer status

2013 Event - Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first-ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade is discussed by members of the United Nations

2012 Event - All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch

2012 Event - According to the United Nations World Meterological Organisation, greenhouse gases reached record levels in 2011

2012 Event - After last months extensive flooding, North Korea asks the United Nations for food aid

2012 Event - Syria accuses Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of the United Nations, of 'encouraging attacks on the government'

2012 Event - Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming monarch of the U.K and seven sovereign states in the Commonwealth of Nations

2011 Event - If Western nations impose more sanctions, Iran threatens to close down the key oil route of the Strait of Hormuz

2011 Event - Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany

2011 Event - Following the turmoil of the Arab Spring G8 nations pledge $40 billion to help Arab countries reconstruct and implement democracy

2011 Event - The first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people is issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - A report submitted to the United Nations states Iran has been caught attempting to transfer weaponry to terrorists including Hamas and the Taliban 10 times

2011 Event - The U.S. announces it will boycott an anti-racism conference at the United Nations due to concerns over anti-Semetism

2011 Event - Iran's Government rejects an investigation into alleged human rights abuses called for by the United Nations Human Rights Council

2011 Event - Leaders from the G8 pass the issue of military intervention in Libya onto the United Nations Security Council

2011 Event - The United Nations releases a report stating world food prices are at the highest in 20 years

2011 Event - The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record

2010 Event - NATO nations reach an agreement to begin handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military by 2014

2010 Event - Many nations urge lower fishing rates on the Atlantic bluefin tuna; quota limits on the critically endangered fish are discussed by major fishing nations in Paris

2010 Event - An audio recording by Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says Muslim nations haven't done enough to support relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan

2010 Event - Delegates from 120 nations worldwide arrive in China for the 60th Miss World 2010 pageant

2010 Event - The United Nations appoints Russia diplomat, Yury Fedotov, to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

2010 Event - United Nations officials believe 3.5 million children may contract waterborne diseases as a result of the floods in Pakistan

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - Pope Benedict XVI celebrates open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal with over 500,000 pilgrims attending from 35 nations including Vietnam, China and India

2010 Event - President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves

2010 Event - Yvo de Boer, top climate change official at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, resigns

2009 Event - The United Nations opens its Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

2009 Event - North Korea claims it has entered the final phase of uranium enrichment, tells the United Nations it is open to dialogue

2003 Death - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001, died from complications from an appendectomy

2003 Event - United States, Briain, Australia and Poland invade Iraq without United Nations sanction

2003 Event - United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said there is no evidence that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction

2003 Event - The United Nations reported that there is no link between al Queda and Iraq

1997 Event - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations

1996 Death - Erskine Childers, United Nations official/civil servant, dies at 67

1992 Event - World's 7 wealthiest nations agree on $24B aid for former U.S.S.R.

1991 Event - UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague

1990 Event - Deposed emir of Kuwait address United Nations General Assembly

1989 Event - 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000

1989 Event - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)

1988 Event - Arafat addresses United Nations in Geneva

1988 Death - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92

1988 Event - Lebanese terrorists kidnap United Nations truce observer Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins

1986 Event - New York City jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet United Nations employee) of spying

1985 Event - 20 countries (but not U.S.) sign United Nations treaty outlawing torture

1983 Event - U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane

1982 Event - Shultz warns U.S. will withdraw from United Nations if they vote to exclude Israel

1982 Event - U.S. vetos United Nations Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization forces

1982 Event - President Reagan 1st United Nations General Assembly address, "evil empire" speech

1981 Event - Andrew Young, former United Nations Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

1979 Event - Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador

1979 Event - Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador

1976 Event - Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

1976 Event - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)

1975 Event - PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses United Nations in New York City

1975 Event - Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations

1974 Death - [Sithu] U Thant, United Nations Secretary-General (1961-72), dies in New York of cancer at 65

1974 Event - South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies

1974 Event - Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US

1973 Event - 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices

1972 Birthday - Geri Halliwell, born in Watford, England, author, philanthropist, known as 'Ginger Spice' from band, the Spice Girls, representative for the United Nations Population Fund

1972 Event - U.S., U.S.S.R. and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons

1971 Death - Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City

1971 Event - China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council

1971 Event - General Meeting of United Nations agrees to admit China PR

1970 Event - U.S. casts their 1st United Nations Security Council veto (Support England)

1970 Event - Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo

1968 Event - U.S., Britain, U.S.S.R. and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

1968 Event - 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by U.S. and 6 European nations

1968 Death - Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78

1967 Event - Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price

1967 Event - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

1967 Event - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help

1966 Death - Trygve Halvdan Lie, 1st United Nations Secretary-General (1946-53), dies at 72

1965 Event - General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR

1965 Event - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel

1964 Event - Last United Nations troops leave Congo

1963 Event - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations

1962 Event - U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations unanimously

1962 Event - 110th member of United Nations admitted (Uganda)

1962 Event - Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations about Cuba crisis

1961 Event - U.S.S.R. vetoes Kuwaits application for United Nations membership

1961 Event - General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea

1961 Event - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots

1961 Death - Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations Secretary General, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56

1961 Event - Battles between United Nations and Katanga troops in Congo

1960 Event - General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid

1960 Event - Belgium threatens to leave United Nations due to criticism on it's Congo-policy

1960 Event - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly

1960 Event - Fidel Castro gives a very long speech at the United Nations, 4 hours, 29 minutes

1960 Event - U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)

1960 Event - 1st United Nations troops reach Congo

1960 Event - Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann

1959 Event - 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica

1958 Event - 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban

1957 Event - United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt

1956 Event - Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion

1956 Event - Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force

1954 Death - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian United Nations ambassador, dies at 70

1954 Event - Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full United Nations delegate

1953 Event - North Korea and United Nations sign armistice

1953 Event - Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden elected 2nd United Nations general-secretary

1953 Death - Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60

1951 Event - United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via United Nations

1951 Death - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75

1951 Event - United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

1950 Event - During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea

1950 Event - 13 North Korean divisions open assault on United Nations lines

1950 Event - General Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, United Nations forces in Korea

1950 Event - North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1949 Event - United Nations' permanent New York City headquarters is dedicated

1949 Event - Security Council of United Nations recommends membership for Israel

1948 Event - Ralph J. Bunche confirmed as acting United Nations mediator in Palestine

1948 Death - Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine, assassinated

1948 Event - Ground breaking ceremony for United Nations world headquarters

1947 Event - Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked

1947 Event - Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to United Nations pressure

1947 Event - Demolition begins for United Nations HQ in New York City

1946 Event - U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City

1946 Event - U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain

1946 Event - League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts

1946 Event - League of Nations assembles for last time

1946 Event - United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting

1945 Event - Ratification of United Nations Charter completed

1945 Event - President Harry S. Truman signs United Nations Charter

1945 Event - U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2

1945 Event - Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to formally accept United Nations Charter

1945 Event - U.N. Charter signed by 50 nations in SF

1945 Event - 45 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in SF

1945 Event - San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference

1943 Event - United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration forms

1942 Event - U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations

1942 Event - 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace

1939 Event - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union

1939 Birthday - Terence Stamp, born in England, actor, Collector, Alien Nations

1939 Event - Hungary leaves League of Nations

1938 Event - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China

1938 Birthday - John Weston, born in England, diplomat, UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1992 - 1995, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1995 - 1998

1938 Birthday - Kofi Annan, born in Ghana, Kofi Atta Annan, diplomat, statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997 - 2007, received 2001 Nobel Peace Prize

1937 Event - Italy withdraws from League of Nations

1936 Event - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy

1936 Event - Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy

1935 Event - League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia

1934 Event - U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations

1934 Event - U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no)

1933 Event - Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1933 Event - Japan leaves League of Nations

1933 Event - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria

1932 Event - Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations

1932 Birthday - Andrew Young, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, 1977 - 1979, Mayor-D-Atlanta

1928 Event - Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war

1927 Event - U.S. government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty

1927 Birthday - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, Senator-D-New York, 1977 - 2001

1926 Birthday - Jeane J Kirkpatrick, Duncan Oklahoma, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, R

1926 Event - Germany joins League of Nations

1926 Event - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany

1926 Event - Brazil leaves League of Nations

1926 Event - Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1926 Event - German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership

1925 Event - League of Nations conference on arms control and poison gas usage

1924 Event - League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva

1924 Event - Santo Domingo joins League of Nations

1923 Event - Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations

1923 Event - Irish Free state joins League of Nations

1923 Event - League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)

1922 Birthday - Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Secretary-General of United Nations, 1992 - 1997

1922 Event - Hungary admitted to League of Nations

1922 Event - Togo made a mandate of League of Nations

1921 Event - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians

1921 Event - Estonia and Lithuania admitted to League of Nations

1920 Event - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru

1920 Event - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands

1920 Event - South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa

1920 Event - League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague

1920 Event - Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection

1920 Event - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva

1920 Event - League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva

1920 Event - China joins the League of Nations

1920 Event - League of Nations places International head of Justice in Hague

1920 Event - U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1920 Event - U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1920 Event - Denmark and Cuba join the League of Nations

1920 Event - Netherlands joins League of Nations

1920 Event - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

1920 Event - Switzerland rejoin League of Nations

1920 Event - Saarland administrated by League of Nations

1920 Birthday - Javier Perez de Cuellar, Lima Peru, 5th Secretary-General of United Nations, 1982-91

1920 Event - 1st assembly of League of Nations in Paris

1920 Event - League of Nations established

1919 Event - U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

1919 Event - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty

1919 Event - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)

1919 Event - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later

1915 Birthday - Lord Huntingfield, British agent to United Nations Secreteriat

1909 Birthday - [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General, 1962-72

1909 Birthday - U Thant, born in Pantanaw, Burma, born Pantanaw U Thant, diplomat and third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971

1908 Birthday - Arthur J. Goldberg, born in Illinois, United Nations ambassador and Supreme Court justice, 1962 - 1965

1908 Birthday - Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building

1907 Event - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference

1905 Birthday - Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, 2nd United Nations Secretary-General, 1953-61, Nobel 1961

1899 Event - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference

1896 Birthday - Trygve Halvdan Lie, born in Norway, 1st United Nations secretary general, 1946-52

1895 Birthday - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, 1925-32

1893 Birthday - Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of United Nations General Assembly, 1962-63

1889 Birthday - Frederik M baron of Asbeck, Dutch lawyer, League of Nations

1887 Birthday - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of United Nations Security Council, 1950

1886 Birthday - Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman, President United Nations security council-1948

1876 Birthday - Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations, 1919 - 1933

1870 Birthday - Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth and League of Nations

1869 Birthday - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor, Rotterdam 1906 - 1922, Dir, League of Nations

1864 Birthday - Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937

1864 Event - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations

1723 Birthday - Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist, Wealth of Nations, baptized

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