2014 Event North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not attend festivities for today's North Korean Workers' Party holiday; Kim has not made any public appearances since early September, raising questions regarding his whereabouts and his health 2014 Event Kim Jong Un is re-elected as leader of North Korea with 100% of the vote; the election was the first since the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in 2011 2013 Event After being elected to the UN Security Council, Saudi Arabia reports it will decline its seat because the UN failed to end the Ghouta chemical attack 2013 Event The UN Security Council elects Lithuania, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Chad and Chile to a two-year term beginning January 1, 2014 2013 Event An agreement is made between the U.S. and Russia to draw up a UN Security Council resolution to eliminiate chemical weapons in Syria 2013 Event The 68th UN Assembly opens 2013 Event The UN Security Council receives alleged proof of chemical weapons use by Syrian militants from Russia 2013 Event The legality of the United States' plans to strike Syria without UN backing are called into question by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon 2013 Event Upon concluding their search for chemical weapons in Syria, UN inspectors leave Damascus 2013 Event Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Special Envoy to Syria, says international law states that any action in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons must be decided by the UN Security Council 2013 Event Syria's government allows UN weapons inspectors to visit the site outside of Damascus suspected of a chemical weapons attack during the conflict 2013 Event UN inspectors arrive in Damascus to determine whether chemical weapons were used in the Syrian conflict 2012 Event The North Korean Workers party names Kin Jong Un First Secretary, with his father, Kim Jong IL delcared as the party's 'eternal' General Secretary 2011 Event According to the UN, 2 million adolescents in the world live with HIV; 86 per cent of them live in sub-Saharan Africa 1991 Event UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) 1988 Event Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN 1987 Death Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81 1986 Event UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS 1986 Event U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later 1982 Death Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Realisme Socialiste), dies at 85 1982 Event Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN 1981 Event Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN 1981 Death Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, U.S. architect (UN), dies at 86 1980 Event President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) 1976 Event Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN 1976 Event Angola admitted to UN 1973 Event UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted 1973 Event West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN 1973 Event France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific 1965 Event Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) 1965 Death Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to UN/president candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies 1964 Event Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN 1962 Event Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN 1961 Event Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN 1961 Event Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN 1960 Birthday Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, born in Munich, West Germany, Princess 1960 Birthday Maria Gloria von Schonberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis 1957 Event Dag Hammarskjold re-elected Secretary-General of UN 1956 Event Japan admitted to UN 1956 Death Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78 1956 Death Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 1955 Death Betsy van Es, Flemish actress (Un soir de joie), dies at 55 1954 Event Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN 1952 Event Trygve Halvdan Lie resigns as 1st secretary-genraal of UN 1950 Birthday Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher 1950 Event Indonesia becomes 60th member of UN 1947 Event NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN 1946 Event Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN 1946 Event Spain suspended from UN 1946 Event Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN 1945 Event Uruguay joins UN 1945 Event Senate approves U.S. participation in UN 1945 Event Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1945 Event UN's Food and Agriculture Organization comes into existence 1945 Event Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN 1945 Event France joins the UN 1943 Event Molotov-Eden-Cordell Hull accord over operations at UN 1935 Event Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris 1933 Birthday Easley Blackwood, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, composer, Un Voyage a Cythere 1929 Event Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film 1928 Birthday Shirley Temple Black, California, actress, Heidi, ambassador, UN 1927 Birthday Francois Nourissier, French writer, Un petit bourgeois 1926 Birthday Jeanne Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to UN 1917 Birthday Vernon Walters, New York City, U.S. permanent rep to the UN 1908 Birthday Pauline Frederick, journalist/correspondent, UN, NBC TV 1904 Birthday Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950 1903 Birthday Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French author, Un Enfant a Dit 1902 Birthday Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet, El arbol, Un Rio, Un Amor 1898 Death Stephane Mallarme, French publisher (L'apres-midi d'un faune), dies 1898 Event d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome 1895 Birthday Wallace K Harrison, Worcester Massachusetts, U.S. architect, UN, Lincoln Center 1895 Birthday Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman, Red Cross, UN 1894 Event Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris 1894 Event Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres 1894 Birthday Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman, 1st President of UN 1894 Event Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris 1890 Birthday Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, UN 1883 Birthday Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain 1880 Birthday John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949 1879 Birthday Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951 1878 Birthday Lucien Febvre, French historian, Un destin: Martin Luther 1876 Birthday Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress, Un Soir Un Train 1875 Birthday Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author, Un homme si simple 1873 Death Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 1869 Birthday Karl Wagenfeld, Low German writer, Daud un Duwel 1866 Birthday Erik Alfred Satie, Honfleur France, composer, Memoirs d'un Ambesique 1859 Event Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli 1847 Event Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris 1813 Birthday Matthias Keller, born in Ulm, Germany, hymm writer, O Farther un High 1810 Birthday Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer, Un Caprice, Bettine
