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Secretary-General of the United Nations

chief administrative officer and head of the United Nations

20 dated entries naming Secretary-General of the United Nations, drawn from 17 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.

Also written as Secretary General of the United Nations, U.N. Secretary General, U.N. secretary-general, UN Secretary General, UN Secretary-General, United Nations Secretary General, United Nations Secretary-General in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1905July 29 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (died 1961)source
  • 1922November 14 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary-General of the United Nations (died 2016)source
  • 1938April 8 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian Secretary-General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 2018)source
  • 1944June 13 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and 8th Secretary-General of the United Nationssource
  • 1953March 13 – The United Nations Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld from Sweden as United Nations Secretary General.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
  • 1965September 9 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.source
  • 19721 January – Future President of Austria Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.source
  • 1972January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.source
  • 1979January 1 – United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the International Year of the Child. Many musicians donate to the Music for UNICEF Concert fund, among them ABBA, who write the song Chiquitita to commemorate the event.source
  • 1986March 26 – An article in The New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary-General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.source
  • 1986June 8 – Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.source
  • 1992January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.source

21st century

  • 2001Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, visited the DRC.source
  • 2007January 30 – Ban Ki-moon, the new Secretary General of United Nations visits Kenya.source
  • 2018August 18 – Kofi Annan, 80, Ghanaian diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997–2006), Nobel Prize laureate (2001).source
  • 2020March 26 – Militants in the Philippines, Syria, Yemen, and Libya agree to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres' call for a ceasefire; some accept medical aid for themselves and civilians in their communities. Colombia and Venezuela discuss a common response to the global pandemic, and the UAE airlifts aid to Iran.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

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