Secretary-General of the United Nations
chief administrative officer and head of the United Nations
8 dated entries naming Secretary-General of the United Nations, drawn from 8 separate years between 1905 CE and 2023 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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20th century
- 1905July 29 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1961)source
- 1938April 8 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian Secretary-General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2018)source
- 1953April 7 – Dag Hammarskjöld is elected Secretary-General of the United Nations.source
- 1961September 18 – 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash: Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld is one of 16 to die in an air crash en route to Katanga, Congo.source
- 1962November 30 – The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma, as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.source
- 1972January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.source
21st century
- 2018August 18 – Kofi Annan, 80, Ghanaian diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006), Nobel Prize laureate (2001).source
- 2023November 6 – Gaza war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 10,000. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calls for a humanitarian ceasefire to increase the flow of aid to civilians.source