khabor.com: Six Bangladeshi Peacekeepers Posthumously Awarded UN Dag Hammarskjöld Medal
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld 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 2026, 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 f…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
politics · UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961 · politician · diplomat · economist · poet · writer · philosopher · also Dag Hammarskjöld, tenia cancer en el seno, Hammarskjöld
Born 29 July 1905 · Died 18 September 1961 · Q1267
48 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
10 photos · 1 audio
Listen
Sv-Dag Hammarskjöld
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Title
- Title
2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Hammarskjöld appears as a central character in the Belgian Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat directed by Johan Grimonprez
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2023· 1 entry
Persbrandt again played the eponymous politician, in the film
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2020· 1 entry
Journalist Ravi Somaiya published the book The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld where he argues that it was no doubt murder
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2019· 1 entry
The documentary film Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger claimed that Jan van Risseghem had told a friend that he shot down Hammarskjöld's aircraft
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2016· 2 entries
The 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash was featured in Canadian TV series Mayday (S15, E5), "Deadly Mission" and Air Crash Investigation Special Report (S3, E3), "VIP on Board"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
The original documents from the 1998 South African investigation surfaced
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2014· 1 entry
Newly declassified documents revealed that the American ambassador to the Congo sent a cable to Washington D
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2013· 1 entry
Accident investigator Sven Hammarberg was asked by the International Commission of Jurists to investigate Hammarskjöld's death
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2011· 2 entries
The Financial Times wrote that Hammarskjöld has remained the benchmark against which later UN Secretaries-General have been judged
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Göran Björkdahl, a Swedish aid worker whose father worked for the UN in Zambia, wrote that in part, he believed that Hammarskjöld's death was a murder that was committed to benefit mining companies like Union Minière, af
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1998· 1 entry
Documents were discovered that detailed an alleged plot, named Operation Celeste, to assassinate Hammarskjöld
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1997· 1 entry
Won: Medal (July 1997).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #honour
- #club
- #accolade
1985· 1 entry
Hammerskjöld was one of the names mentioned in the "I Belong to a Culture" speech in Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, where the protagonist includes him in a list of 24 historical gay figures
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1974· 1 entry
The Australian-British composer Malcolm Williamson, Master of the Queen's Music, wrote his Hammarskjöld Portrait for soprano and string orchestra
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1963· 1 entry
Hammarskjöld's only book, Vägmärken (Markings, or more literally Waymarks), was published in 1963.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1962· 2 entries
Won: Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (1962).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #honour
- #club
- #accolade
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation was created as Sweden's national memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1961· 16 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization, capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter.
- #nobel
- #award
- #honour
Died 1961-09-18.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Won: Dag Hammarskjöld Library (November 1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #honour
- #club
- #accolade
Won: Nobel Peace Prize (1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #honour
- #club
- #accolade
“In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
Career landmark: 1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
Career landmark: funeral of Dag Hammarskjöld.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
“Att vara fri, att kunna stå upp och lämna allt — utan att se sig tillbaka. Att säga ja —”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:sv
- #multi-edition
“Bed att din ensamhet blir sporren att finna något att leva för, stort nog att dö för.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:sv
- #multi-edition
“Godhet är något så enkelt: att alltid finnas för andra, att aldrig söka sig själv.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:sv
- #multi-edition
“Jag kämpar för det omöjliga: att mitt liv skall få en mening. Jag vågar inte, vet inte hur jag skulle kunna tro: att jag inte är ensam.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:sv
- #multi-edition
“Mät aldrig bergets höjd förrän du nått toppen. Då skall du se hur lågt det var.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:sv
- #multi-edition
“Är livet fattigt? Är icke snarare din hand för smal, dina ögonlinser grumlade? Det är du som måste växa.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:sv
- #multi-edition
“Setbacks in trying to realize the ideal do not prove that the ideal is at fault.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
1960· 1 entry
The newly independent Congo asked for UN aid in defusing the Congo Crisis
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1954· 3 entries
Won: Honorary degrees (1954).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #honour
- #club
- #accolade
Career landmark: seat 17 of the Swedish Academy (1954–1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
When it presented him with a Legum Doctor, honoris causa
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1953· 2 entries
Soon after his appointment as United Nations Secretary-General, Hammarskjöld was interviewed on radio by Edward R
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Career landmark: United Nations Secretary-General (1953–1961).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
1951· 2 entries
Hammarskjöld was vice chairman of the Swedish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Trade (1951–1953).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
1950· 1 entry
Became head of the Swedish delegation to UNISCAN, a forum to promote economic cooperation between the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1936· 2 entries
Career landmark: secretary of state (1936–1945).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
Became a secretary in Sweden's central bank, the Riksbank
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1925· 1 entry
When he was 20 years old, and ends the month before his death in 1961
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1923· 1 entry
Studied at Uppsala University (1923).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
1905· 1 entry
Born 1905-07-29.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth