About U Thant

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3.
1. 2.
Who Is U What Did U Thant About His
Thant? Do For The World? Family

4. 5. 6.
His Early Life His Award When Did He
Die?
 Who is U Thant?
● Is known as a Burmese diplomat
● And the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961
to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian to hold the position.
● Held the office for a record 10 years and one month.
What Did U Thant
Do For The World?
• Who served as Secretary-General of
the United Nations from 1961 to
1971, was chosen to head the world
body
• -when Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold was killed in an air
crash in September 1961.
 About His Family

● U Thant - the eldest of four sons.

● Parents - U Po Hnit (educated in Calcutta, was the only
person in the town who could communicate well in
English), Nan Thaung
● Spouse - Daw Thein Tin
● Children - Mg Bo, Tin Mg Thant, (die)
● Grandson - Thant Myint-U
 His Early Life
● The eldest of four sons
● Full name - Maha Thray Sithu U Thant
● Born - November 25,1974
● Birth place - Pantanaw in Myanmar
● Nationality - Burmese
● Education - At the National High School in
Patanaw and at Universiry
College, Rangoon
● Po Hnit (Thant’s Dad) had collected a personal
library of various American and British books
and cultivated a reading habit among his
children.

● As a result, U Thant became an avid reader.

● At the age of eleven, Thant Participated in

strikes against the University Act of 1920.
● When Thant was fourteen - his father died.
● A series of inheritance disputes forced Thant's
mother - Nan Thaung, and her four children into
difficult financial times.
● Thant believed he would not be able to
complete a four-year degree and instead worked
for a two-year teaching certificate at Rangoon
University in 1926.
● At university, Thant, together with Nu, the future Prime Minister of
Burma, studied history under D. G. E. Hall.
● Thant was elected joint secretary of the University Philosophical
Association and secretary of the Literary and Debating Society.
● In Rangoon, Thant met J.S. Furnivall, to which Thant regularly
contributed.
 His Award
Knowledge

● Thant received - honorary degrees (LL.D) from Carleton University,

Williams College, Princeton University, Mount Holyoke College, Harvard
University, Dartmouth College, University of California at Berkeley,
University of Denver, Swarthmore College, New York University,
Moscow University, Queen's University, Colby College, Yale University,
University of Windsor, Hamilton College, Fordham University,
Manhattan College, University of Michigan, Delhi University, University
of Leeds, Louvain University, University of Alberta, Boston University,
Rutgers University, University of Dublin (Trinity College), Laval
University, Columbia University, the University of the Philippines
Diliman, and Syracuse University. He also received the Doctor of
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da Flaticon e infográficos e imagens da Freepik from The First Universal Church; Doctor of International Law
from Florida International University; Doctor of Laws from University of
Hartford; Doctor of Civil Laws degree, honoris causa from Colgate
University; Doctor of Humane Letters from Duke University.
● U Thant was re-appointed for a second
term as Secretary-General of the United
Nations by the General Assembly on 2
December 1966 on the unanimous
recommendation of the Security Council
(resolution 229, 1966). His term of office
continued until 31 December 1971.
● In 1931, Thant won first place in All Burma Teachership
Examination and became the school's headmaster by the age of
twenty-five.
● Urged by Thant, his friend Nu took the local superintendent of
schools position.
● Thant regularly contributed to several newspapers and
magazines under the pen name "Thilawa" and translated a
number of book.
● Promising a good post, Furnivall
urged Thant to complete a four-year
university course and join the Civil
Service, but Thant refused.
● After earning the certificate, he
returned to Pantanaw to teach at the
National High School as a senior
teacher in 1928.
 U Thant House

● U Thant House is a leading centre for learning and dialogue in

Yangon, focused on the key challenges facing Myanmar today.
● At this critical time in the country's political, economic, social,
and environmental history, U Thant House aims to help the
people of Myanmar reimagine peace and
rethink development.
More Pictures of U Thant House
 When Did He Died?
● Died of lung cancer in New York
on November 25, 1974.

Thant’s tomb
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