This Day in History: <br />First Meeting of <br />the United Nations January 10, 1946 Comprising 51 nations, <br />the first U.N. meeting <br />convened at Westminster <br />Central Hall in London, England. The groundwork for this first meeting <br />had been laid by the Allies in 1944 <br />at the Dumbarton Oaks <br />conference in Washington, D.C. The United Nations Charter <br />was drafted by the nations <br />a year later in San Francisco. The new organization <br />was to yield much more <br />power over its members than <br />the defunct League of Nations. Two weeks after <br />its first meeting, the <br />General Assembly <br />adopted its first resolution: the measure called for the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the elimination of atomic and other weapons of mass destruction.
