{"id":375895,"date":"2026-06-26T14:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375895\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:49:09","slug":"june-26-1945-charter-of-united-nations-signed-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375895\/","title":{"rendered":"June 26, 1945 &#8211; Charter of United Nations signed in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On June 26, 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed, marking the beginning of the world body that aims to keep international peace. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Delegates from 50 different countries signed the charter in San Francisco, taking over the previous international body \u201cLeague of Nations\u201d. League of Nations disbanded in 1946. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The UN had been an idea years in the making, with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first starting to use the name \u201cUnited Nations\u201d in 1941. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He had used it when talking about Allied countries against the Axis powers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early iterations of the UN had talked about how to stop the powers and outlined the war goals of the allies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Years later, after Germany surrendered, the United Nations was officially created. The UN charter was ratified a few months after it was signed, in October of 1945. The first assembly met in January of the next year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The UN is made up of 193 nations today and is headquartered in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On June 26, 1945, the Charter of the United Nations was signed, marking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1524,101,103,102,104,106,105,14764,11101],"class_list":["post-375895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-nation","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-united-nations","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}