GK
WORLD GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
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Question
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U Thant
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Trygue Lie
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Kurt Walheion
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Dag Hammarskjold
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Detailed explanation-1: -The UN General Assembly voted 57-1-1 on 7 April 1953 to appoint Dag Hammarskjöld as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Hammarskjöld was sworn in as Secretary-General on 10 April 1953. He was unanimously reelected on 26 September 1957 for another term, taking effect on 10 April 1958.
Detailed explanation-2: -António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations, took office on 1st January 2017.
Detailed explanation-3: -U Thant, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, was chosen to head the world body when Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in September 1961.
Detailed explanation-4: -Trygve Lie (Norway) served as the first Secretary-General from 1946-1953.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, was born into Sweden’s political elite. Both his training and his civil service career were in keeping with family traditions. He distinguished himself in languages, literature, philosophy and law before getting a PhD in economics in 1933.