UNITED NATIONS (UN) rectified chart ( more events added)

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Dear Thor and list,

 

After research in http://www.un.org/apps/news/searchFull.asp

some more events were added to the previous list included in the chart notes of

the JTW chart. All these events and many more will help us to understand the UN ratified Charter chart.

 

 

 

List of events:

 

Signed in London on 12 June 1941, the Inter-Allied

Declaration- " to work together, with other free peoples, both in war and

in peace " -was a first step towards the establishment of the United

Nations.

 

On 14 August 1941, President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt of the United States and Prime Minister

Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom proposed a set of

principles for international collaboration in maintaining peace and security.

The document, signed during a meeting on the ship HMS Prince of Wales,

" somewhere at sea " , is known as the Atlantic Charter.

 

On 1 January 1942, representatives of

26 Allied nations fighting against the Axis Powers met in Washington, D.C. to pledge their

support for the Atlantic Charter by signing the " Declaration by United

Nations " . This document contained the first official use of the term

" United Nations " , which was suggested by President Roosevelt.

 

In a declaration signed in Moscow on 30 October 1943, the Governments of

the Soviet

Union,

the United

Kingdom,

the United

States

and China called for an early

establishment of an international organization to maintain peace and security.

That goal was reaffirmed at the meeting of the leaders of the United States, the USSR, and the United Kingdom at Teheran on 1 December 1943.

 

Aug 21, 1944: The Dumbarton Oaks conference, which lays

the foundation  for the establishment of the United Nations, is held in Washington, D.C. The conference

lasted till Oct 7, 1944.

 

On 11 February 1945, following meetings

at Yalta, President

Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin declared their

resolve to establish " a general international organization to maintain

peace and security " .

 

On 25 April 1945, delegates of 50

nations met in San Francisco for the United Nations Conference on International

Organization. The delegates drew up the 111-article Charter, which was adopted

unanimously on 25 June 1945 in the San Francisco Opera House. The next

day, they signed it in the Herbst Theatre auditorium of the Veterans War Memorial Building.

 

Jun 26, 1945: The United Nations Charter is signed by the

representatives of the  50 countries. Poland, which was not represented at the

Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 Member States.

 

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What leads us to the chart of Oct 24, 1945, when the United

Nations Charter is ratified, is point 3 of its Article 110:

 

Article 110

 

1. The present Charter shall be ratified by the

signatory states in accordance with their respective constitutional processes.

 

2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the

Government of the United States of America, which shall notify

all the signatory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-General of

the Organization when he has been appointed.

 

3. The present Charter shall come into force upon

the deposit of ratifications by the Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet

Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, and by a majority

of the other signatory states. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall

thereupon be drawn up by the Government of the United States of

America

which shall communicate copies thereof to all the signatory states.

 

4. The states signatory to the present Charter which

ratify it after it has come into force will become original Members of the

United Nations on the date of the deposit of their respective ratifications.

_______

 

Oct 24, 1945: The United Nations officially comes into

existence at the San Francisco Conference when the Charter is ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and others totaling

29 nations.

 

Dec 27, 1945: The World Bank was created with an

agreement signed by 28 nations. The International Monetary Fund and the Bank

for Reconstruction and Development are created.

 

Dec 28, 1945: International Monetary Fund established;

World Bank and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created with an

agreement signed by 28 nations.

 

Dec 31, 1945: Ratification of UN Charter completed.

 

Jan 10, 1946: The first General Assembly of the United

Nations, comprising fifty-one nations, convenes at Westminster Central Hall in London, England.

 

Jan 17, 1946: The U.N. Security Council meets for the

first time at Westminster Central Hall in London, England, adopting its rules

of procedure.

 

Mar 21, 1946: The United Nations set up temporary

headquarters at Hunter College in New York.

 

Nov 04, 1946: The United Nations Educational, Scientific

and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is established.

 

Dec 11, 1946: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. offered up a

six-block area of land in New York City for use as world

headquarters of the United Nations. The offer was accepted the following day.

 

Dec 11, 1946: The United Nations International Children's

Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.

 

Dec 11, 1946: Spain suspended from UN.

 

Dec 14, 1946: The United Nations General Assembly voted

to establish the U.N. headquarters in NY City.

 

Dec 14, 1946: The United Nations adopts a disarmament

resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb.

 

Mar 24, 1947: John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East

River site to the  UN

 

Jul 08, 1947: Demolition work begins for the new

permanent headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.

 

Apr 07, 1948: The World Health Organization established

by UN.

 

Jun 18, 1948: The United Nations Commission on Human

Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights.

 

Sep 14, 1948: A groundbreaking ceremony takes place in New York City at the site  of the

United Nations' world headquarters.

 

Aug 21, 1950: The United Nations moved into its new

permanent facilities in NY  City

-- on land donated by the Rockefeller family.

 

May 18, 1951: The United Nations moves out of its

temporary headquarters in Lake Success, NY, for its permanent

home in Manhattan.

 

May 26, 1960: The US Ambassador to the UN, Henry Cabot

Lodge accues the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the

Great Seal of the United States that had been

presented to the US Embassy in Moscow.

 

Sep 26, 1960: Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins,

by Fidel Castro)

 

Oct 12, 1960:  At the United Nations, Soviet Premier

Nikita Khruschev went ballistic, taking off his shoe and pounding it on his

desk! The UN Assembly President, Frederick Boland, was so irritated that he

split his gavel trying to reestablish order.

 

Sep 18, 1961: Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag

Hammarskjold of Sweden is killed in a plane crash. Sometime in the

night of September 17-18, he and fifteen others aboard perished when their

plane crashed near the border between Katanga and North Rhodesia.

 

Mar 15, 1992: UN officially embarks on its largest

peacekeeping operation.

 

Jun 11, 1993: UN forces launch a nighttime attack against

the forces of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

 

April 8, 2002: UN Kosovo police attacked. An angry crowd

has clashed with United Nations police in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in Kosovo, injuring

16 officers and a number of civilians.

 

Jan 23, 2003: Kosovo UN police building attacked, no casualties.

Around 7:30

p.m.

(1830 GMT) an explosive device hit UNMIK police headquarters.

 

Aug 19, 2003: UN Commissioner for Human Rights, and UN

rising start Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, is killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad.

 

May 9, 2003: mob attacks UN mission, injures sector

chief with machete.

 

6 November 2003: Shooting at UN

troops in DR of Congo wounds one peacekeeper.

 

17 November 2003: UN refugee agency

grounds road missions in Afghanistan after murder of

staffer.

 

14 January 2004: Senior official of

UN development agency killed in Uzbek plane crash.

 

Feb 4, 2004: UN boat convoy attacked in Congo. There were no

casualties.

 

April 17, 2004:  Massacre in Kosovo. Two American women and

an American man were slain in Kosovo, and eleven people were injured when they

came under armed attack by a Palestinian from Jordan. The killer was a

member of the same body in which they served: the United Nations police force

in the territory.

 

June 29, 2004: UN helicopter crash in Sierra Leone leaves 24 dead. At

approximately 09:20 a.m. local time, an MI-8 UN Mission in Sierra

Leone (UNAMSIL) civil contractor helicopter, carrying over 20 United Nations

and non-United Nations personnel, crashed in Sierra Leone.

 

September 12, 2004: UN buildings

attacked in Afghanistan. Demonstrators in western Afghanistan have attacked two

United Nations buildings in the city of Herat.

 

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