** UN Conference on Trade & Development ( UNCTAD )

** UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ( UNHCR )

** UN Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO )

** UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan ( UNMOGIP )

** UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUC )

** UN Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO )

** Eritrea: Eritrean independence was declared as a result of a referendum held with UN verification.

** 24 Pakistani troops in the UN forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.

** The United Nations General Assembly votes unanimously to appoint a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

** The UN Security Council holds its first session.

** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

** Qana Massacre: Over 100 Lebanese civilians are killed after Israel shells the UN compound in Qana.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: According to UNSCOM, the unity of the UN Security Council begins to fray, as a few countries, particularly France and Russia, become more interested in making financial deals with Iraq than in disarming the country.

** Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.

** UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.

** African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.

** President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in the Sinai.

** Adebayo Adedeji, Nigerian UN official

** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

** Resolution 1991: Amended the UN Charter, enlarging the Security Council to fifteen members.

** Resolution 44 / 34: The UN Mercenary Convention

** Thank God for the Death of the UN Richard Perle in The Guardian March 21, 2003

** Historian Paul Kennedy hailed Hammarskjöld in his book The Parliament of Man as perhaps the greatest UN Secretary-General because of his ability to shape events, in contrast with his successors.

** Medal: On 22 July 1997, the U. N. Security Council in resolution 1121 ( 1997 ) established the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal in recognition and commemoration of those who have lost their lives as a result of UN peacekeeping operations.

** The Treaty of Münster ( Instrumentum Pacis Monasteriensis, IPM ), concerning the Holy Roman Emperor and France and their respective allies.

** The Treaty of Osnabrück ( Instrumentum Pacis Osnabrugensis, IPO ), concerning the Holy Roman Emperor, the Empire and Sweden and their respective allies.

** The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.

** The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.

** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

** Japan-U. S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.

** Anglo-Jordanian Treaty of 1948 expires.

** Treaty of Brussels signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.

** Hay-Pauncefote Treaty signed by United Kingdom and United States, ceding control of the Panama Canal to the United States.

** Cold War: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

** The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature.

** Warsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat established.

** The Treaty of Versailles is signed, formally ending World War I.

** Mexican – American War formally ends, making the unincorporated, unorganized California Territory a provisional official possession: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the war and ceding to the United States virtually all of what is today the southwest United States.

** Commonwealth of Independent States Collective Security Treaty ( CST ) signed ( effective 20 April 1994 ).

** Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.

** Estonian War of Independence: The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed, ending the war and recognizing Estonian independence.

** Treaty of Moscow ( 1920 ): Soviet Russia recognizes independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.

** Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing South Common Market ( Mercosur its acronym in Spanish )

** Warsaw Treaty Organization officially dissolved in accordance with a protocol calling for a “ transition to all-European structures.

** Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.