1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN
1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1990 President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
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 sec-gen of UN
1981 Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
1981 Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, U.S. architect (UN), dies at 86
1980 Pres-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior)
1977 Vietnam and Djibouti ask for membership in U.N.
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 German FR and German DR 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 Algeria admitted as 109th member of U.N.
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
1961 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of U.N.
1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM U.S.S.R.) bangs his shoe on table at UN
1960 Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, 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 U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
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 Kleffens appointed chairman of General Meeting U.N.
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 S Amer Zen teacher
1950 Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN
1948 U.N.'s World Health Organization forms
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 Sec-Gen 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
1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to UN/, Sen-D-NY, 1977-
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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