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This Day in History: The United Nations Charter Is Signed, June 26, 1945

  • On June 26, 1945, delegates from fifty nations signed the Charter of the United Nations in San Francisco — an attempt, born from the ruins of the deadliest war in history, to build a system that might prevent the next one.
  • Eighty-one years on, the institution remains both landmark and lightning rod.

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