Dag Hammarskjold UN Secretary General 1953 | Today In History | 7 Apr 17

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On April 7, 1953 the U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general. Arriving in New York, the new Secretary General of .


On this day in 1961, the body of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld was identified in the wreckage of a plane crash outside Ndola. Heres Movietones .

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