Key Events
January 24, 1946
The United Nations passed its first resolution, the elimination of nuclear weapons.
October 24, 1949
The United Nations headquarters started being build in New York after John Rockefeller donated the land needed.
September 1960
Seventeen new states were admitted to the United Nations, sixteen of the seventeen were from Africa.
1980
The Iran was began. The UN called for a ceasefire. The war went on until 1988.