A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 118 B.E. (A.D. 1961-1962)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Interregnum - 118 B.E. (A.D. 1961-1962)

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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 3 April A.D. 1961 • A.M.	Corinne True, Hand of the Cause of God, passes away in Chicago. [BW13:846] For her obituary see BW13:846–9. For cables from the Custodians see MC257. Shoghi Effendi had appointed her among the second contingent on the 29th of February, 1952. [MoCxxiii] See also Rutstein, Corinne True.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The International Bahá'í Council is elected for the first time, by postal ballot of the members of the national spiritual assemblies. [BW13:397; MC282] The members are Jessie Revell, ‘Alí Nakhjavání, Lutfu'lláh Hakím, Ethel Revell, Charles Wolcott, Sylvia Ioas, Mildred Mottahedeh, Ian Semple and Borrah Kavelin. [MC282] See BW13:398 for picture. See also BBD118; BBRSM131; BW16:90; CB324; MC168, 242.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Argentina is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Bolivia is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Chile is formed. [BW13:258] For picture see BW13:260.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Colombia is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Costa Rica is formed. [BW13:258] For picture see BW13:261.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Cuba is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Dominican Republic is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Ecuador is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of El Salvador is formed. [BW13:258] For picture see BW13:263.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Guatemala is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Haiti is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Honduras is formed. [BW13:258] For picture see BW13:265.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Jamaica is formed. [BW13:258] Elected Randolph Fitz-Henley, William A. W. Mitchell, Alfred Senior, Clarence Ullrich, Alice Maud Gallier, Percival Aiken, Emily Taylor, Margarite Ullrich and Ruby Taylor. [The Gleaner]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Mexico is formed. [BW13:258] For picture see BW13:266.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Nicaragua is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Panama is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Paraguay is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Peru is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Venezuela is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Uruguay is formed. [BW13:258] For picture see BW13:268.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Brazil is formed. [BW13:258]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 1 May A.D. 1961 • A.M.	Kanichi (Moto) Yamamoto, the first Japanese Bahá'í, passes away in Berkeley, California. [SBR185] For the story of his life see SBR176–86. For picture see SBR190.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 23 June A.D. 1961 • A.M.	Fred Murray, the first full-blooded Aborigine and member of the Minen tribe to become a Bahá'í, enrols. [BW14:369]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 25 / 26 June A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The newly-elected International Bahá'í Council meets for the first time. [BW13:397; MC285–6] For details of the meeting and excerpts from its minutes see MC285–91.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 8 July A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The Custodians announce that mass conversion has begun in Ceylon, Central and East Africa, and Bolivia, while in Canada native peoples have begun to enter the Faith. [MC293]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 8 July A.D. 1961 • A.M.	Georges and Emma Wayenece, originally from Mare on the Loyalty Islands and the first Loyalty Islanders to become Bahá'ís, enrol in Nouméa. [BW17:415] Mrs Wayenece is the first Melanesian woman of the New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands area to become a Bahá'í. [BW17:415]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 15 July A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The Turkish court declares the Bahá'í Faith to be a ‘Tarighat', a sect forbidden by the law of the land. The Bahá'ís are ‘forgiven', released and the case against them dropped. [MC308] The National Spiritual Assembly decides to appeal the decision to a higher court and national spiritual assemblies are asked to make representations to the Turkish ambassadors in their respective countries. [MC308]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 16 September A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The House of Worship in Sydney, the Mother Temple of the Antipodes, is dedicated by Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih K̲h̲ánum in a service for Bahá'ís only. [BW13:729; MC15] For details of the service and pictures see BW13:726–32.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 17 September A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The House of Worship in Sydney is officially opened by Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih K̲h̲ánum in two public services, each attended by 900 people. [BW13:732] For message of the Custodians to the dedication service see MC309–12. For cable of the Custodians to the Bahá'ís of the world see MC313.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The first summer school to be held on Rarotonga Island takes place.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • Autumn / Winter A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The International Bahá'í Archives is opened to Bahá'í pilgrims. [BW13:429; MC20] For details of the Archives building and several pictures see BW13:403–34. Marble for the the International Baha'i Archives building was cut and chiseled by Margraf, a firm from Chiampo, Italy formerly known as Industria Marmi Vincentini. [BWNS1223]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 15 October / 2 November A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The fifth Conclave of the Hands of the Cause of God is convened at Bahjí. [MC297] For the agenda see MC298.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 22 October A.D. 1961 • A.M.	Mr. Sivalingam and Miss Puvaneswary were married in the first Bahá'í wedding in Malaysia.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 5 November A.D. 1961 • A.M.	The Hands of the Cause issue a message from their fifth Conclave. [MC313–23] They call for the election of the Universal House of Justice at a convention to be held in the Holy Land on the first, second and third days of Ridván 1963. [CB392; MC321] They ask the electors to leave the Hands free to ‘discharge their duties'. [MC321] The celebration of the Most Great Jubilee, the Centenary of the Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh, is to be held in London rather than Baghdád, owing to the situation in the Middle East. [MC322]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 7 December A.D. 1961 • A.M.	An article appears in the nationally prominent Moroccan newspaper Al Alam lamenting the decline of Islám and attacking the Bahá'í Faith. [MC17] This gives rise to persecution of the Bahá'ís in ensuing months.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Bahá'í homes in Morocco are searched by the police and Bahá'í literature seized. [MC17]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Thirty thousand new Bahá'ís enrol in India in six months. [VV9]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The administrative institutions of the Faith are banned in Indonesia by President Sukarno. [BW19:41] BW15:174 says this was in 1964.
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Emeric Sala, makes a visit to several islands in the Indian Ocean and reports that there are some 400 Bahá'ís in Mauritius of Indian, Moslem, Chinese, Creole and French descent. [TG163]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • January A.D. 1962 • A.M.	A Bahá'í Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Tetuan, Morocco, is dismissed from his post and warned to have no association with other Bahá'ís. [MC17]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 1 January A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Amelia Collins passes away in Haifa. (b. 7 June, 1873) [BW13:399, 840; MC12] For her obituary see BW13:834–41. Shoghi Effendi appoints her (publicly) among the first contingent on the 24th of December, 1951. [MoCxxiii] For the cable of the Hands of the Cause see MC333. See also Faizí, Milly ,"The Fulfilled hope of 'Abdu'l-Bahá" by Richard Francis and PSBW73–106. For a timeline of her life see Shareable Bahá'í Resources While serving in Haifa she was given 'Abdu'l-Bahá's room. She was the last person to occupy it. [TG231]
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • 18 January A.D. 1962 • A.M.	First Bahá'í marriage in Taiwan was between Miss Yeh Chan-ching and Mr Yang Su-thou
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• 118 B.E. • A.H. • March A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Aboubacar Kâ, a school teacher and the first Senegalese known to become a Bahá'í, enrols.
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