As the United Nations turns 80, some key moments in its history
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FILE - United Nations Conference delegates unanimously adopt the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, June 26, 1945. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, holds up a copies of the Quran, left, and Bible, right, as he addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 23, 2010, during a speech where he prompted walkouts from the assembly when he questioned whether the Sept. 11 attacks were staged. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)FILE - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows an illustration as he describes his concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions during his address to the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)FILE - President Harry S. Truman and the entire American delegation watch as Sen. Tom Connally signs the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, June 26, 1945. Standing, from left: Truman; Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr.; Harold Edward Stassen; unidentified; Dean Virginia Gildersleeve; Rep. Charles A. Eaton; Rep. Sol Bloom, and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Residents from Pyongyang, North Korea, and refugees from other areas crawl over shattered girders of the city's bridge Dec. 4, 1950, as they flee south across the Taedong River to escape the advance of Chinese Communist troops. (AP Photo/Max Desfor, File)FILE - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his desk with his fist at the United Nations, Oct. 12, 1960, during angry debate, as his wrist watch is on the desk in front of him. (AP Photo, File)FILE - A holster protrudes from under Yasser Arafat's jacket as he clasps his hands over his head during his appearance before the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters, Nov. 13, 1974. (AP Photo, File)FILE - U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer, fourth left, along with UN and Iraqi officials pays last respects before Sergio Vieira de Mello's coffin, draped in a UN flag is loaded on a Brazilian presidential plane at Baghdad international airport, in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 22, 2003. Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq, was killed in a suicide truck bombing attack on U.N. headquarters that killed at least 22 other people and left more than 100 injured. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)FILE - U.S. military vehicles pass the collapsed section of the United Nations headquarters Saturday, Aug. 23, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)FILE - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi shows a torn copy of the UN Charter during his address to the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)FILE - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , center, visits the collapsed UN headquarters during his visit to Port-au-Prince, Jan. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
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FILE - United Nations Conference delegates unanimously adopt the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, June 26, 1945. (AP Photo, File)
