Dag Hammarskjold was appointed Secretary General of the United Nations in 1953. He was born Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold in Sweden in 1905. Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev requested he resign from his post as Secretary General of the United Nations in October 1960, but Hammarskjold refused to resign. Dag Hammarskjold was killed in an air crash in Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961.
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