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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 15 April A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
Dr M. E. Lukmani, a homeopathic physician from India, arrives in Colombo, the first Bahá'í to settle in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 20 April A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
The first local spiritual assembly in Portugal is established in Lisbon. |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 21 April A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
The first local spiritual assembly of Denmark is established in Copenhagen. |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 24 April A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
The passing of Montfort Mills.
He had been a believer since 1906 and by 1909 he had made two pilgrimages to 'Akká as well as a third in early 1921.
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1922 he and Roy Wilhelm are invited to Haifa to discuss the possibility
of calling for the formation of the Universal House of Justice.
He
was the first chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United
States and Canada when it first formed in 1922 and was elected to that
body seven times between 1922 and 1937 and was responsible for the final
draft of the Declaration of Trust and By-Laws adopted in 1927.
One
of his most outstanding achievements was his rôle in the case of the
appeal for possession of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád. He made
two trips to Baghdad and had audiences with King Feisal. During one of
these trips he was brutally assaulted and suffered the effects for many
years.
He met with Professor E. G. Browne and, after hearing Mr.
Mills explanation of the evolution of the Faith and of the Covenant, Mr.
Browne realized he had been veiled by conflicting claims and
disturbances following the martyrdom of The Báb and expressed a desire
to translate later Bahá'í works but died before this contribution could
be made. [BW11p509-511] |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 30 April A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
An Act to incorporate the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada is passed. The act establishes the name, names the officers as
directors, states the location of the headquarters, defines the
objectives, gives it the right to manage the affairs of the Bahá'ís, to
make by-laws and to hold property. It was used as a model for
registration/incorporation in other states. |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 5 / 7 August A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
The second European Teaching Conference is held in Brussels. [BW11:52] |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 9 December A.D. 1949
• A.M. |
The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Resolution entitled Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
- It was largely through the one-man campaign of a Polish jurist,
Raphael Lemkin, someone who had lost family members in the Nazi
holocaust, and who had invented the term "genocide", that the Resolution
was adopted. [In Search of a Better World by Payam Akhavan p91-92]
- The attitude at the time could be summed up in the words "Never
again!" however the world would have to wait another 50 years before
the International Criminal Court would be established to provide any
real meaning to this Resolution.
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1950 (in the decade)
• A.M. |
John Z. T. Chang arrives in Hainan Island and is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452] |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1950
• A.M. |
Clifford and Catherine Huxtable
arrive in the Gulf Islands and are named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh (albeit
in 1957 see LNW93). [BW13:457] |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1950
• A.M. |
By this year the Bahá'í population of Black Africa is probably no more than 12. [BBRSM190–1] |
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1950
• A.M. |
The Court of the First Instance in Karkúk, Iraq, registers a Bahá'í marriage certificate. [MBW4; uD248]
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is the first time in the East, outside Israel, that a Bahá'í marriage
is recognized as being legal, an important precedent for other Oriental
countries. [MBW4; UD248]
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1950 (in the decade)
• A.M. |
In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society is started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabí to persecute and harass the Bahá'ís. [s1296]
- During the Pahlaví era it confined itself to this end and was called the Anti-Bahá'í Society. [SI296]
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1950
• A.M. |
The publication of Prescription for Living by Rúhíyyih Rabbani by George Ronald. |
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• 106 B.E.
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• A.D. 1950
• A.M. |
Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah are killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani is murdered in Taft. [Towards a History of Iran's Baha'i Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.] |
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• 106 B.E.
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• 20 January A.D. 1950
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World Religion Day is first observed in the United States. [BBD242]
- Its purpose is to associate the term ‘world religion' with the Bahá'í Faith. [BBD242]
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• 3 February A.D. 1950
• A.M. |
Dr Sulaymán Birgís is martyred in Káshán, Iran. [BW18:390]
- For his obituary see BW12:684–5.
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• 106 B.E.
• A.H.
• March A.D. 1950
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In March 1950, Shoghi Effendi would
send a further cable: "Faithless brother Hussein, already abased
through dishonorable conduct over period (of) years followed by
association with Covenant-breakers (in) Holy Land and efforts (to)
undermine Guardian's position, recently further demeaned himself through
marriage under obscure circumstances with lowborn Christian girl (in)
Europe". [Bahá'í News, No. 229, p.1]
Shoghi Effendi would later defend the use of the term "lowborn Christian
girl" as follows: "Regarding his cable concerning Hussein: he has been
very surprised to note that the terms 'low-born Christian girl ' and
'disgraceful alliance' should arouse any question; it seems to him that
the friends should realize it is not befitting for the Guardian's own
brother, the grandchild of the Master, an Afnán and Aghsán mentioned in
the Will and Testament of the Master, and of whom so much was expected
because of his relation to the family of the Prophet, to marry an
unknown girl, according to goodness knows what rite, who is not a
believer at all". [Bahá'í News, No. 236, p.4] |
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