Article 8 -- No Title
Date: 30 July 1905
Dag Hammarskjöld Birthday, Date of Birth
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (English: HAM-ər-shuuld, Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2025, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was elected. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.
Hammarskjöld's tenure was characterized by efforts to strengthen the newly-formed UN both internally and externally. He led initiatives to improve morale and organizational efficiency while seeking to make the UN more responsive to global issues. He presided over the creation of the first UN peacekeeping forces in Egypt (the UNEF) and the Congo (the ONUC) and personally intervened to defuse or resolve diplomatic crises. Hammarskjöld's second term was cut short when he died in a plane crash while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis.
Hammarskjöld was and remains well regarded internationally as a capable diplomat and administrator, and his efforts to resolve various global crises led to him being the only posthumous recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Western world, his appointment and tenure were hailed as one of the most notable and successful in UN leadership. U.S. president John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld "the greatest statesman of our century". In the third world, however, his legacy is extremely controversial, given his erratic performance in the Congo Crisis, with consequences to this day.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Saturday, July 29, 1905
- Place of Birth
- Jönköping
- Age
- 120
- Star Sign
- ♌
The July 29, 1905 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 209 day of the year. President of the United States was Theodore Roosevelt.
If you were born on this day, you are 120 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 76 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in 288 days. You have lived for 43,906 days, or about 1,053,763 hours, or about 63,225,811 minutes, or about 3,793,548,660 seconds.
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29th of July 1905 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 29, 1905
AUGUST STOCK MARKETS.; With Light on the Crop Prospects Prices Have Usually Advanced -- The Record.
Date: 30 July 1905
CZAR FORBIDS THE BANNS.; Will Not Allow Grand Duke Cyril to Wed Princess Victoria.
Date: 30 July 1905
Czar bars marriage to Princess Victoria
HOW ROOSEVELT CAUGHT THE FLAGSHIP NAPPING; Alabama Sighted the Sylph, but the Maine's Signal Stuck. JOKE ON THE WHOLE FLEET Decks Were Piled with Ammunition, So a Salute Would Have Been Dangerous -- Marines Turned Out.
Date: 30 July 1905
Flagship Maine failed to signal Roosevelt's arrival because her signal stuck; Pres caught fleet off-guard; also surprised Bklyn Navy Yd
LATEST CUSTOMS RULINGS.; Battery Carbons Held Dutiable at 35 Per Cent. -- Other Decisions.
Date: 30 July 1905
Russia in Revolution: Forces Behind Strikes and Mutinies; Their Organization, Power, and Extent---Popular Foreign Conception of Nicholas II. Wrong---His Destiny as Marked Out by Peter the Great---"A Truly Humane and Intelligent Czar Would Be Merely a Wise, Merciful Tyrant."
Date: 30 July 1905
By Walter Littlefield, Author of "The Truth About Dreyfus."
Walter Littlefield
"The Breadwinners"; A SOCIAL STUDY Now Accepted as the Work of THE LATE JOHN HAY. First Installment of the Novel Which, When Published Anonymously Twenty-two Years Ago, Created a Sensation Because of What Was Then a Daring Treatment of the Capital and Labor Problem, and Provoked a Controversy Over Its Authorship More Lively Than Any Ever Known in American Literature. THE BREADWINNERS "THE BREADWINNERS" "THE BREADWINNERS."
Date: 30 July 1905
DEMAND FOR "HAY'S BOOK."; There's a Rush for Library Copies of "The Breadwinner."
Date: 29 July 1905
Demand for library copies
TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; The Curb Brokers Receive a Friendly Word of Warning.
Date: 29 July 1905