India, Oct. 24 -- Today is the United Nations Day. The intergovernmental organisation came into existence on October 24, 1945 after 29 nations had ratified the Charter essentially for maintaining worldwide peace and security; Developing relations among nations; fostering cooperation between nations in order to solve economic, social, cultural or humanitarian problems and resolve all international issues of dispute.
On April 1, 1945, an Easter Sunday, the bloodiest Battle of Okinawa, last of all major World War II battles, had been fought. The US Navy's Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 US Army and US Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan. The invasion was part of 'Operation Iceberg', ...