Hammarskjöld's death 1961
Hammarskjöld's death: On 18 September 1961 UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, while mediating the Congo Crisis. He was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — the only person to receive it posthumously.
Hammarskjöld’s death: On 18 September 1961 UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, while mediating the Congo Crisis. He was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — the only person to receive it posthumously.
In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 1961 under Tage Erlander as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.
Source confidence is B: the basic event is promoted, while broader interpretation still depends on the cited source tier and later primary-source upgrades.