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1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1988 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN 1987 Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS 1986 U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1982 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 1982 Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN 1981 Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN 1981 Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, U.S. architect (UN), dies at 86 1980 President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) 1976 Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN 1976 Angola admitted to UN 1973 UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted 1973 West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN 1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific 1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) 1965 Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies 1964 Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN 1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN 1961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN 1961 Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN 1960 Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, born in Munich, West Germany, Princess 1960 Maria Gloria von Schonberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis 1957 Dag Hammarskjold re-elected Secretary-General of UN 1956 Japan admitted to UN 1956 Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78 1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 1955 Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55 1954 Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN 1952 Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN 1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN 1950 Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher 1950 Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN 1947 NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN 1946 Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN 1946 Spain suspended from UN 1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN 1945 Uruguay joins UN 1945 Senate approves U.S. participation in UN 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1945 UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence 1945 Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN 1945 France joins the UN 1943 Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN 1935 Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris 1933 Easley Blackwood, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, composer, Un Voyage a Cythere 1929 Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film 1928 Shirley Temple Black, California, actress, Heidi, ambassador, UN 1927 Francois Nourissier, French writer, Un petit bourgeois 1926 Jeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to UN 1917 Vernon Walters, New York City, U.S. permanent rep to the UN 1908 Pauline Frederick, journalist/correspondent, UN, NBC TV 1904 Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950 1903 Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French author, Un Enfant a Dit 1902 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet, El arbol, Un Rio, Un Amor 1898 Stephane Mallarme, French publisher (L'apres-midi d'un faune), dies 1898 d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome 1895 Wallace K Harrison, Worcester Massachusetts, U.S. architect, UN, Lincoln Center 1895 Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman, Red Cross, UN 1894 Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris 1894 Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres 1894 Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN 1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris 1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN 1883 Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain 1880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949 1879 Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951 1878 Lucien Febvre, French historian, Un destin: Martin Luther 1876 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress, Un Soir Un Train 1875 Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author, Un homme si simple 1873 Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 1869 Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer, Daud un Duwel 1866 Erik Alfred Satie, Honfleur France, composer, Memoirs d'un Ambesique 1859 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli 1847 Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris 1813 Matthias Keller, born in Ulm, Germany, hymm writer, O Farther un High 1810 Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer, Un Caprice, Bettine |
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