First meeting of the United Nations was held 72 years ago

The first meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) comprising 51 nations was convened at Westminster Central Hall in London, England on January 10, 1946. The meeting saw the election of Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as the first President of the General Assembly. It was established in 1945 as the "deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN".