February 1st

On this day - February 1st 1946 - Trygve Lie was appointed the first Secretary General of the United Nation  

Trygve Lie was an Norwegian politician who had participated in the Norwegian government in exile in UK during the Second World War. He was also the leader of the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations meetings in 1945 and 1946. At the point was Galdwyn Jebb acting as the Secretary General, because no one had been appointed to the position yet. On February 1st was Trygve Lie appointed to the position as a compromises between the greater nations. Lie was re-elected in 1950, although without Soviets support at this time. By 1952 was he forced to resign due to the Soviet Unions disapproval of his involvement in the Korean war. He has been both criticized and apprised for his work in the UN, and he wrote the book IN THE CAUSE OF PEACE: Seven Years with the United Nations about his experiences s the first secretary general. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld took over as Secretary General after Lie. The current Secretary General is Ban Ki-Moon from South Korea.