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