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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.

Tier
C
Confidence
B
Bias risk
Medium
Kind
foreign-policy
Date
1961-09-18

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.

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