U.N. RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION CREATED
Washington, D.C. • November 9, 1943 On this date in 1943 in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added his signature to an agreement by representatives of 44 nations to establish the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. UNRRA (pronounced un-ruh) was the first U.N. organization to be created, established 1½ years before the United Nations…