A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 121 B.E. (A.D. 1964-1965)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Universal House of Justice - 121 B.E. (A.D. 1964-1965)

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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • 22 March A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The Faith is brought to St Vincent for the first time by Shirley Jackson, who returns to the island the day after having become a Bahá'í while on a visit to her native home in Grenada. Later in the year she enrols the first Bahá'ís on St Vincent.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The chief of the Arpushana clan of the Guajiros, Francisco Pimienta Arpushana, becomes a Bahá'í in Colombia and teaching work begins among his people. [BW14:319]
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The Nine Year Plan (1964-1974) is launched. [BBRSM159; BW14:101; VV1; WG22–7] This marks the beginning of the second epoch of Abdu'l-Bahá's Divine Plan. [AWH178] For letter of the Universal House of Justice announcing the Plan see BW14:102–4. For an analysis of the details of the national plans sent to 69 national spiritual assemblies see BW14:104–23.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice releases statistics on the growth and spread of the Bahá'í Faith at Ridván. [BW14:124–35]
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of West Africa is formed with its seat in Monrovia.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Kenya is formed with its seat in Nairobi.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is formed with its seat in Dar-es-Salaam.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of South Central Africa is formed with its seat in Salisbury.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of South and West Africa is formed with its seat in Johannesburg.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Indian Ocean is formed with its seat in Port Louis.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Hawaiian Islands is formed with its seat in Honolulu.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the South Pacific Ocean is formed with its seat in Suva.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the South West Pacific Ocean is formed with its seat in Honiara.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia is formed with its seat in Tokyo.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Korea is formed with its seat in Seoul.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Malaysia is formed with its seat in Kuala Lumpur.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Indonesia is formed with its seat in Djakarta.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Viet Nam is formed with its seat in Saigon.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand is formed with its seat in Bangkok.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Philippines is formed with its seat in Manila.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of is North West Africa formed with its seat in Tunis.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of West Central Africa is formed with its seat in Victoria, Cameroon.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Uganda and Central Africa is formed with its seat in Kampala.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • June A.D. 1964 • A.M.	Isaac Eziukwu, a Nigerian who had become a Bahá'í in Bangui, Central African Republic, in 1956, arrives in Libreville, Gabon, the first pioneer to the country. [BW16:522–3]
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • 4 July A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The House of Worship in Langenhain, Germany, is dedicated. [BW14:483–4] For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW14:485–6. For pictures see BW14:482, 483, 485, 491. For a description of the teaching conference accompanying the dedication see BW14:586–8. See also MC14–15; PP432–4.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • 19 September A.D. 1964 • A.M.	Prince Sihanouk Norodom, Head of State, and Prince Kantol Norodom, Prime Minister, sign a decree authorizing the exercise of the Bahá'í Faith in Cambodia and recognizing the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • 4 November A.D. 1964 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice announces that ‘there is no way to appoint, or to legislate to make it possible to appoint, Hands of the Cause of God'. [WG41] For decisions of the Universal House of Justice regarding the development of the institution of the Hands of the Cause of God see WG40–3.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • 5 November A.D. 1964 • A.M.	Followers of Charles Mason Remey file suit in the United States District Court for Northern Illinois against the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, claiming they are the rightful owners of all Bahá'í properties and funds in the United States. [BW14:95] The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States files a counter claim asking the court to restrain the Covenant-breakers from using Bahá'í names and symbols protected by trademark. [BW14:95]
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1965 • A.M.	The first pioneer to the San Andrés and Providencia Islands settles there briefly.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1965 • A.M.	William Carr visits Alert Bay in Canada, only 800 km from the North Pole and the most northerly inhabited location in the world.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1965 • A.M.	Nils and Sigrid Rutfjäll, the first Samer (Lapps) to become Bahá'ís, enrol in northern Norway. [BW5:483]
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1965 • A.M.	Emma Reinert, the first Faroese to become a Bahá'í, enrols.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • February A.D. 1965 • A.M.	Jean and Ivanie Désert and their three children arrive in Guadeloupe from Haiti, the first Bahá'ís to settle on the island.
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• 121 B.E. • A.H. • 18 March A.D. 1965 • A.M.	The Bahá'í International Community establishes its own offices in the United Nations Plaza Building in New York. [BW14:90, BIC-History]
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