When Did Dag Hammarskjold Die?
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld Was a Swedish Economist and Diplomat Who Served as the Second Secretary-General of the United Nations. as of 2021, He...
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. As of 2021, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was appointed in 1953.
How did Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold die?
On the night of 17-18 September 1961, during a UN mediation mission in the Congo, Dag Hammarskjöld's plane crashed in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). All of the 16 passengers and crew perished. Dag Hammarskjöld sought to shape the United Nations as an organisation devoted to peace and he lost his life in this pursuit.
Who succeeded Dag Hammarskjöld?
He was on his fourth mission to the Republic of the Congo when he was killed with 15 others in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961. U Thant of Myanmar succeeded him as secretary-general. Hammarskjöld was posthumously awarded the 1961 Nobel Peace Prize. READ MORE: U.N.
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