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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.
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. The film investigates the possibility that Hammarskjöld's plane, which crashed in Northern Rhodesia , was shot down by Belgian-British mercenary ...
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.
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.
Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died in 1961. But questions surrounding his tragic passing in a plane crash, and his ...
In 2009, the medal was awarded to each of the 132 UN peacekeepers who were killed in 2008. [5] Pakistani peacekeeper Naik Naeem Raza, who served the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was killed in January 2018, was on 25 May 2019 posthumously awarded a UN medal by Secretary General António Guterres ...
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They had four sons: Bo, Åke, Sten and Dag. [5] She was a religious person and intensively dealt with theology. [6] She was one of the confidants of Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, the Lutheran bishop of Uppsala. [6] She died in 1940 and was buried in the family grave in Uppsala. [2] [7]