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