The United Nations' library is named for this Secretary-General who was killed in a 1961 plane crash
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Hammarskjold Markings | Hammarskjold plane crash | Roger Lipsey  During a thirty-five-month period from January 1961 to November 1963 the politics ... Dag Hammarskjld, the Swedish United Nations secretary-general, died in a plane ... held at Oxford University's Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African .... a plot to blow up Hammarskjld's plane, code-named Operation Celeste.
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Introduction - Dag Hammarskjld - Research Guides at United ...  Dag Hammarskjld's last speech to UN staff on 8 Sept 1961 ... Dag Hammarskjld takes the oath-of-office as the second Secretary-General of the UN. ... the new Library Building at UN Headquarters should be named after Hammarskjld. ... the United Nations in reopening its inquiry into the death of Secretary-General Dag...
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Dag Hammarskjld - Wikipedia  Dag Hammarskjld. Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjld (Swedish: [d hamarld] ( listen); 29 July 1905  18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations, from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.
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What Does the UK Know About the Mysterious Plane Crash That ...  Jul 23, 2015 ... The UN wants a reinvestigation into the conspiracy-laden crash that killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjld in 1961, but Britain and ... For instance, Wardrop said, "there isn't a proper library of information at the UN" that...
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  Dag Hammarskjld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. ... change the names of streets and squares and call them Dag Hammarskjld. ... the new library of 16 November 1961 as The Dag Hammarskjld Library .... the tragic death in a plane crash of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjld in...
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Kofi Annan - Biographical - Nobelprize.org  The Nobel Peace Prize 2001 ... Kofi A. Annan of Ghana, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, is the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff. ... Born in Kumasi, Ghana, on 8 April 1938, Mr. Annan studied at the University of...
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U Thant biography Biography Online  Nov 2, 2014 ... Thant was an avid reader and became known by his friends as 'The ... Three years later, aged just 25, he became the school's headmaster after winning first place in the All ... The first United Nations Secretary-General, Trygve Lie has .... Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1965,the...
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  Dag Hammarskjld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. ... He was born on 29 July 1905 in Jonkoping in south-central Sweden. The fourth son of Hjalmar Hammarskjld, Prime Minister of Sweden during World War I, and ... Dag Hammarskjld served the Swedish Government in several posts.
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, U.N. secretary general who clashed with U.S. ...  Feb 16, 2016 ... Former U.N. secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies at 93. ... earned a doctorate in international law at the University of Paris in 1949. ... After returning to Egypt, he taught international law at Cairo University for nearly two ... His entry onto the world stage came in November 1977, when Egyptian...
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Binyamin Netanyahu visits scene of brother's 1976 Entebbe airport ...  Jul 4, 2016 ... Israeli prime minister travels to Uganda where his brother was killed during raid by commandos to free hostages on Air France Flight 139. ... next. prev. info-button ... Among the dead were Yonatan, or Yoni as he was known, who had been ... On the first day of an African tour, Netanyahu said the rescue on 3...
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Secretary-General of the United Nations - Wikipedia  The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UNSG or just SG) is the head of the United ... The current Secretary-General is Ban Ki-moon, who took office on 1 January 2007. His first ... He was re-elected, unopposed, to a second term on 21 June 2011. .... 10 November 1952, Norway, Western European & Others, Resigned.
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50 Years of UN Peacekeeping Operations, 6 October English  He also served on the Swedish Delegation to the UN General Assembly from 1951 to 1953. Mr. Hammarskjld was unanimously appointed Secretary-General of...
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New York Architecture Images- United Nations Headquarters  architect. United Nations Board of Design, headed by Wallace K. Harrison, overall ... The centerpiece of the UN complex is the Secretariat, an International Style ... Razing of the site was begun in July 1947 and ground for the Secretariat building ... The United Nations Headquarters were constructed in New York City in 1949...
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali - Wikipedia  Boutros Boutros-Ghali was an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1992 to ... He was serving as UN Secretary-General when the killings occurred four years later. ... not only to oust Boutros-Ghali but to have Kofi Annan selected to replace him.
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Ex-U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali dies :: Jenkers  Feb 16, 2016 ... He was 93. According to his official U.N. biography, Boutros-Ghali taught international relations and law at Cairo University from 1949 to 1977,...
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Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, Politician and Nehru's Sister, Is Dead at 90 ...  Dec 2, 1990 ... Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, an Indian independence fighter, diplomat and politician, and the first woman to serve as President of the United Nations General Assembly, died today in the northern town of Dehra Dun. She was 90...
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Kofi Annan - Wikipedia  Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan, along with the UN, were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace ... Kofi Annan was born in the Kofandros section of Kumasi in the Gold Coast (now...
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  Dag Hammarskjld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961. ... 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo. ... The fourth son of Hjalmar Hammarskjld, Prime Minister of Sweden during ... was appointed Adviser to the Cabinet on financial and economic problems.
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Secretaries-general (UN) | Britannica.com  Annan, whose father was governor of Asante province and a hereditary ... Egyptian scholar and statesman, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) from ... The son of Hjalmar Hammarskjld, prime minister of Sweden (191417) and...
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1960 U-2 incident - Wikipedia  1960 U-2 incident. The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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DAG HAMMARSKJLD: The UN years ...  Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a ... At the age of 31, after having served one year as Secretary of the National Bank of Sweden, Mr. ... In 1950, he became Chairman of the Swedish Delegation to UNISCAN,...