A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 128 B.E. (A.D. 1971-1972)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Universal House of Justice - 128 B.E. (A.D. 1971-1972)

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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The International Bahá'í Youth Conference takes places at Oteppe-Namur, Belgium, launching a two-year youth campaign for Europe. [BW15:333–4] For picture see BW15:334.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Central African Republic is formed with its seat in Bangui. [BW15:207] For picture see BW15:148.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Chad is formed with its seat in Fort Lamy. [BW15:207] For picture see BW15:148.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Congo and Gabon is formed with its seat in Brazzaville, the Congo. [BW15:206] For picture see BW15:148.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Lesotho is formed with its seat in Maseru. [BW15:202] For picture see BW15:148.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Ivory Coast, Mali and Upper Volta is formed with its seat in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. [BW15:193] For picture see BW15:150.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Sudan is formed. [BW15:187] For picture see BW15:150.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Solomon Islands is formed with its seat in Honiara. [BW15:269]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Trinidad and Tobago is formed with its seat in Port-of-Spain. [BW15:219, 242]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assemblies in Guam are formed in Dededo, Inarajan, Mangilao and Tamuning.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • May A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The first National Teaching Committee of Sierra Leone is appointed by the Regional Spiritual Assembly of West Africa.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 21 / 23 May A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The Oceanic Conference of the Caribbean is held in Kingston, Jamaica. [BW15:218, 319–20; VV5–6] For pictures see BW15:304–8 and VV6.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 21 / 23 May A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The Oceanic Conference of the South Pacific is held in Suva, Fiji, BW15:320–1; VV6. For pictures see BW15:308–9.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 31 July / 11 August A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The European Youth Conference takes place in Fiesch, Switzerland, attended by 1,200 youth from 50 countries. [BW15:336–8] About 200 people enrol in the Bahá'í Faith during the conference. [BW15:336] For pictures see BW15:337.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice erects an obelisk on the site of the future House of Worship of the Holy Land on land that was purchased in 1953 with a gift of $50,000 from Milly Collins. [MBW63, 78-79, BBD 172; BW15:177–8; DH175; MUHJ83–4, SES18-20]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 4 August A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The first Bahá'í College Club of Latin America is formed at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. [BW15:215]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 27 / 30 August A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The first Bahá'í Youth Conference for Western Asia takes place in New Delhi. [BW15:335] Two thousand people enrol during the conference and the week following. [BW15:335]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 3 / 5 September A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The Oceanic Conference of the North Atlantic is held in Reykjavik, Iceland attended by some 800 people from 36 countries. [BW15:322–3; VV6] For pictures see BW15:309–12.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 3 / 5 September A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The Oceanic Conference of the North Pacific is held in Sapporo, Japan. [BW15:321–2; VV6] For pictures see BW15:312–14 and VV5.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 4 September A.D. 1971 • A.M.	Músá Banání, Hand of the Cause of God, passes away in Kampala, Uganda. (b.1886) [BW15:42; VV7] For his obituary see BW15:421–423. Shoghi Effendi had appointed him among the second contingent on the 29th of February, 1952. [MoCxxiii]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 13 October A.D. 1971 • A.M.	Following the banning of Bahá'í activities in Egypt in 1960, Egyptian Bahá'ís submit a petition to the Supreme Constitutional Court asking for redress and for justice to be upheld. [BW15:173] The opinion of one Mandatory of the government is that the 1960 decree is unconstitutional. [BW15:173]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 16 October A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The inauguration of Shahyad Tower ("King's Memorial Tower") in Tehran. The tower was built in honour of the shah on the occasion of the commemoration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Empire and has become an iconic symbol of the city of Tehran. It has been described as being a tower, an arch, a gate and an obelisk in one and is 50 meters (164 ft) tall and completely clad in some eight thousand blocks of cut marble from Iṣfáhán Province. The main financing was provided by a group of five hundred Iranian industrialists. After the Revolution in 1979 it was renamed The Azadi Tower (Liberty Tower) and was, in turn, the gathering place of the "rebels" in 1979 and for those protesting the results of the election in 2009. The architect, Hossein Amanat was only 24 years old and a recent graduate when he won the competition for the project. In addition to having a remarkable career in designing buildings for commercial, educational and residential use, he is the architect for such Bahá'í projects as the Universal House of Justice Building, the Centre for the Study of the Holy Texts, the International Teaching Centre and the Mas̲h̲riqu'l-Ad̲h̲ka in Samoa. He left Iran in 1978 and took up residence in Vancouver in 1980. [Hossein Amanat website]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • november A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The first Bahá'í Youth Conference of the Antilles takes place in the Dominican Republic. [BW 15:217]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • 26 / 28 november A.D. 1971 • A.M.	The fiftieth anniversary of the passing of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá is commemorated. [BW15:125–8; VV14] For text of the letters of the Universal House of Justice see BW15:125–6 and MUHJ76–7.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • December A.D. 1971 / January A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first youth summer school for southern Africa is held at the Leroy Ioas Teacher Training Institute in Mbabane and is attended by 67 people from eight countries.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1972 • A.M.	Derek and Sally Dacey, the first resident pioneers on Montserrat in the East Leeward Islands, arrive at their pioneer post.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1972 • A.M.	In Indonesia the Attorney-General confirms the 1962 ban on Bahá'í administrative institutions and adds a further prohibition against organized Bahá'í teaching activities. [BW19:41]
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first Bahá'í studies seminar is held in London. For an account of the development of these seminars see BW18:204 and BW19:368.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • January A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first Bahá'í Youth Summer School in Southern Africa takes place in Swaziland, attended by 70 youth from eight countries. [BW15:338] For picture see BW15:340.
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• 128 B.E. • A.H. • March A.D. 1972 • A.M.	A thousand children attend a Bahá'í school in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. [BW15:237]
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