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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: / ˈ h æ m ər ʃ ʊ l d / HAM-ər-shuuld, [1] Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ⓘ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961 ...
On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden operating for the United Nations crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia).The crash resulted in the deaths of all people on board, including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second secretary-general of the United Nations, and 15 others.
Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a 2019 documentary film by Danish film maker Mads Brügger.It depicts the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in the 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash and proposes a theory that a white supremacist organization attempted to spread HIV/AIDS among black Africans.
Dag Hammarskjöld at Elisabethville airport, Katanga, August 1960 (Courtesy Hachette Book Group) (UN Photo/x/) The son of Sweden’s former prime minister, Hammarskjöld, grew up in a pink castle.
A United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1961 to replace Dag Hammarskjöld after he was killed in a plane crash.After initial Soviet attempts to replace the secretary-general with a troika, it was agreed that an acting secretary-general would be appointed for the remainder of Hammarskjöld's term.
Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in 1961. ... “Hammarskjold” director Per Fly on set. ... After the murder of ...
The question wasn’t who wanted Dag Hammarskjӧld dead. The question was, who didn’t? For a quiet diplomat, the Secretary-General of the United Nations made many enemies and at least one ...
The Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Crash Site marks the place of the plane crash in which Dag Hammarskjöld, the second and then-sitting Secretary-General of the United Nations was killed on 17 September 1961, while on a mission to the Léopoldville [1] Congo Republic (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).