The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial body of the United Nations, established by the UN Charter in 1945 and holding its first sessions in 1946. It succeeded the Permanent Court of International Justice, which had been linked to the League of Nations. The court sits at the Peace Palace in The Hague and consists of fifteen judges elected by the General Assembly and the Security Council. It decides disputes between states that agree to its jurisdiction, such as border and maritime cases, and gives advisory opinions to UN bodies on legal questions. Its first case, in 1947, concerned the Corfu Channel incident between the United Kingdom and Albania. Its rulings are binding, but it has no direct means of enforcing them.
Before and after
- 1945Invention of breadth-first search
- 1945Founding of United Nations General Assembly
- 1945Founding of Baskin-Robbins
- 1945Invention of computer
- 1945Founding of International Court of Justice
- 1945Founding of Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
- from 9 January 1945 to 15 August 1945Battle of Luzon
- from 12 January 1945 to 2 February 1945Vistula–Oder Offensive
- 15 January 1945Founding of Narodowy Bank Polski
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- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations Security Council
- 5 May 1949Founding of Council of Europe
- 1952Founding of European Parliament
- 15 June 1954Founding of Union of European Football Associations
- 1990Rise of K-pop
- 8 December 1991Founding of Commonwealth of Independent States
The era
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