On this day, January 10th, in 1951 the United Nations headquarters in Turtle Bay, NY opened its doors for the first time. The location – some 17 acres – was bought from the city’s biggest real estate developer and financed by the son and grandson of the oil magnate John D Rockefeller (who incidentally founded Standard Oil on the same day 81 years earlier.)
The dreams of world cooperation towards peace began in the final years of the 19th century and somehow survived two world wars.
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