UN Headquarters Truck Bomb Attack Kills Sérgio Vieira de Mello – August 19, 2003
A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
Date: August 19, 2003
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