July 23

On this day - July 23 1951 - The European Coal and Steel Community was established 

The European Coal and Steel Community was an international organization which was established with the aim of uniting European countries. The first members were France, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Luxembourg. The idea for the organization was first presented by Robert Schuman in 1950. His aim was to "make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible". ECSC established a common market for Coal and Steel among its members. The ECSC was joined by other similar organizations in 1957 and merged with European Economic Community in 1967. It continued to exisits as an independent part of EEC and EU until 2002. ECSC is today considered as one of the forerunner for the European Union (EU).

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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.

November 15th

On this day – 15^th November 1920 – The first League of Nation General Assembly was held

The League of Nation was founded on January 10^th 1920 and is considered the forerunner of today’s United Nations.  It was established as a part of the Paris Peace conference, which ended the First World War, and it was a part of US President Woodrow Wilson’s 14-point plan. Wilson received the Nobel’s peace prise for his work towards this, but the US never joined the organization. League of Nation was established as an international organisation with the goal of maintaining world peace. The organization has never been considered as too successful, although it did have some impact on international issues in the middle of the 1920s. In 1943 was it agreed among the allied power to create a new, and stronger, organisation to replace the League of Nation and this is how the United Nations was created. The league of Nations held its last meeting on 18^th of April 1946 where it officially ended its existence.