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United Nations Secretary-General

7 dated entries naming United Nations Secretary-General, drawn from 6 separate years between 1944 CE and 1992 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

  • 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
  • 1965September 9 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan President Ayub Khan.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
  • 1986June 8 – Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.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
  • 1992January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.source

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