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New evidence supports a theory that the pioneering U.N. secretary general was assassinated. SARAH PRUITT, Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty images Shortly after midnight on September 18, 1961, a chartered DC-6 airplane carrying United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peacekeeping mission to the newly independent African nation of the Congo crashed in a forest near Ndola, in theContinue reading “UN Leader Dag Hammarskjold Died in Mysterious Circumstances in 1961. What Really Happened?”

Dag Hammarskjöld: a defiant pioneer of global diplomacy who died in a mystery plane crash This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who helped shape the 20th century, and we willContinue reading “Wikimedia Commons”