A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 146 B.E. (A.D. 1989-1990)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Universal House of Justice - 146 B.E. (A.D. 1989-1990)

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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 23 / 26 March A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The First National Women's Conference of Spain is held in Madrid. [BINS201:6]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 24 / 27 March A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first All-Ireland Youth Spring School is held in Closkelt, Northern Ireland. [BINS197:51]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Association for Bahá'í Studies of Malaysia is established. [BINS206:8]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Nearly one half million new believers were enrolled since last Ridván. [AWH60]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Macau was formed. [PH73; AWH62]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Guinea-Bissau was formed. [PH73; AWH62]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice announced a vast majority of prisoners that had been held by authorities in Irán had been released. [AWH62]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The re-creation of the Local Spiritual Assembly of 'Ishqábád. [AWH73; VV111]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Some four million persons had visited the House of Worship in New Delhi to this date. [AWH61]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Guinea-Bissau is formed. [AWH62; BINS199:1, 4]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Local Spiritual Assembly of ‘Ishqábád (now Ashgabat, Turkmenistan) is re-formed after a lapse of 61 years, the first local assembly to be formed in the Soviet Union. [AWH73; VV111]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice reports that nearly half a million people became Bahá'ís in the past year. [AWH60]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice announces the release of the vast majority of the Bahá'í prisoners held in Iran. [AWH62]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Macau is formed. [AWH62; BINS199:1; VV104]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • May A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Nearly 880 people become Bahá'ís in Guyana. [BINS202:8]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • May A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Olinga Teaching Project is launched in Fiji, resulting in over a thousand people becoming Bahá'ís. [BINS204:3]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 6 May A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Bahá'í World Centre receives one of six awards given by the Council for a Beautiful Israel in a ceremony in Jerusalem. [BINS199:2]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 25 June A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice said in a message it was now timely for the knowledge of the Bahá'í Faith to be disseminated on the mainland of China as quickly as possible. [PH80] Also see [SWvol13no7pg185; VV104]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • July / August A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Five European Regional ‘Peace Moves' Youth Conferences are held in different parts of the continent.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • July A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Sean Hinton, the first Bahá'í to reside in Mongolia, is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh by the Universal House of Justice.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 1 / 2 July A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first European Bahá'í Women's Conference is held at De Poort Conference Centre, the Netherlands. [BINS203:2]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 3 July A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The passing of Bobbie Cowan in Invermere, BC. [AC297]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 5 July A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Dr Ugo Giachery, Hand of the Cause of God, passes away while on a visit to Western Samoa. [BINS204:1; VV123] For the cable of the Universal House of Justice see BINS204:1. Shoghi Effendi had appointed him among the first contingent on the 24th of December, 1951. [MoCxxiii]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 10 July A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice issued statement on literacy. [AWH142-3]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 23 July A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first meeting of Bahá'í women in Mauritius takes place at the Bahá'í Institute. [BINS215:6]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Forty Bahá'ís from Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles and France join a teaching campaign in Madagascar during which 724 people become Bahá'ís. [BINS217:4]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first Mongolian to become a Bahá'í, Ms Oyundelger, a 22-year-old English-language pupil of Sean Hinton, enrols in Ulaan Baator. [VV101]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 3 August A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first Latvian resident in Latvia to become a Bahá'í, Lilita Postaza, a renowned tapestry artist, enrols after visiting the Bahá'í temple in India.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 27 August A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice sent a message offering clarification on the subject of the Feast. [Universal House of Justice 27 August, 1989]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 27 August A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice message on the 19 Day Feast. [AWH192-4]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Summer A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The founding of the Maxwell International Bahá'í School. It was a co-ed Bahá'í school located on Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada. It offered boarding students and day students instruction from grades 7-12. Its educational philosophy was based on the principles of the Bahá'í Faith. Students attended from all over the world. The school was opened with guest of honour Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih K̲h̲ánum (Mary Maxwell, daughter of May and Sutherland) and wife of the Bahá'í Faith's Guardian, Shoghi Effendi. A tree was planted in dedication to the opening of the school. In the early 2006-2007 school year, the school board decided to drop "Bahá'í" from its name, changing it to "Maxwell International School". The school closed on its 20th anniversary in 2008. [Wiki]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • September A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Bahá'í Office of the Environment is established as part of the Bahá'í International Community in New York. [AWH75; VV54, 106]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 16 / 17 September A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Bahá'ís in Liechtenstein mount a display of Bahá'í books and an exhibition at an international festival for peace, justice and the preservation of creation held in Balzers, the first time they have been allowed to have a booth or stand of any kind in public. [BINS209:8]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • October / November A.D. 1989 • A.M.	In India, 4,300 people become Bahá'ís in the State of Orissa. [BINS213:3]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Bangladesh reports the enrolment of 7,500 people in the year since November 1988. [BINS210:1]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1989 • A.M.	One Country, the newsletter of the Bahá'í International Community, now published in five other languages - French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and German. The first French language edition of the publication was launched in Paris in October, 1989. Each issue contains two or three in-depth feature stories on the United Nations, noteworthy social and economic development projects, environmental efforts or educational programs, along with an editorial that addresses world problems from a Bahá'í point of view.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 10 october A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Bahá'í World Centre received official approval by the Local Town Planning Committee and City Council of Haifa of the Town Planning Scheme for the initiation of the Projects on Mt Carmel.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 21 / 22 October A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Southern African Bahá'í Association for the Advancement of Women is formed in Johannesburg. [BINS210:8]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 26 October A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice issued statement on the environment. [AWH144]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 4 / 6 November A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The European Bahá'í Youth Council, comprising seven youth and appointed by the Universal House of Justice to coordinate those European youth activities that have a continental impact, meets for the first time, in London. [BINS213:4; BW93–4:121]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • late in the year A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Local Spiritual Assembly of Budapest is re-elected for the first time since the proscription of 1950. [Letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Austria, 6 December 1989 www.bahai.hu Note 68]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 15 December A.D. 1989 • A.M.	A World Forestry Charter Gathering organized by the Offices of Public Information in London and New York takes place in London. [AWH75; BINS214:1–2] It commemorates the centenary of the birth of Richard St Barbe Baker, the Bahá'í environmentalist who founded the Gatherings in 1945.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 18 December A.D. 1989 / 2 January A.D. 1990 • A.M.	During the Youth Winter School in Traben-Trarback participants from 12 countries including East Germany, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union gather for the first time since the Second World War. [BINS215:2]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 18 December A.D. 1989 / 2 January A.D. 1990 • A.M.	West Berlin Bahá'í communities are joined by 26 Bahá'ís from six European countries and the United States in proclamation and teaching activities among East Germans. [BINS215:2] More than 50,000 copies of a shortened version of the Peace Statement and other Bahá'í materials are distributed at four major border check-points in West Berlin and at the Brandenburg Gate. [BINS215:2]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 25 / 29 December A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first International Bahá'í Summer School of Bophuthatswana is held at the Pilanesberg National Game Reserve, attended by 263 people from 12 countries. [BINS215:1–2]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan (Senate) of Taiwan co-sponsors with the National Spiritual Assembly a Bahá'í educational programme on environmental protection. [BINS218:5] This is the first formal joint effort between the Bahá'ís of Taiwan and the government authorities.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Taiwan opens a permanent Bahá'í Office of the Environment for Taiwan in Taipei. [BINS221:5]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	An Association for Bahá'í Studies is established in Kenya.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Italian Association for Bahá'í Studies is established in Rome. [BINS232:5] It lapses in 1991 but is re-established in 1992.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The first Adam Benke Project is organized by the Bahá'í European Youth Council in Bulgaria. The first semi-public talks and lectures in Bulgaria are given in restaurants, where people are invited to private meetings. Eleven people become Bahá'ís.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Purest Branch Project in Belize results in over a thousand people becoming Bahá'ís from the Garifuna population around Dangriga.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The United Nations International Literacy Year. [VV108]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The highest legal authority in Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court, overturned the decisions of a number of lower courts that had refused to register the by-laws of a Local Spiritual Assembly on the grounds that the authority granted to the National Spiritual Assembly in the document violated the legal principle requiring the autonomy of all legally incorporated associations. ruling affirmed Bahá'í community, by it's right as a recognized religion, recognized by public knowledge and by the testimony of scholars of comparative religion, had the right to a legal identity. [AWH87]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands, visits the Bahá'í World Centre. [BW94–5:83]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The founding of the European Bahá'í Business Forum as an informal network. Their goal is exploring how to contribute to a more prosperous, just and sustainable civilization, through their daily work and discourse. [EBBF]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The University of Maryland announced its decision to establish "The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace" in its Centre for International Development and Conflict Management. In 1992 Professor Suheil Bushrú'í was named as the first scholar to hold the Chair. [AWH76; VV108]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	In the two years previous almost two million people enrolled in the Cause. [AWH79]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of South Africa made a submission for the drafting of a new constitution. The judge that received it, the President of the South African Law Commission, commented that this document stated the Bahá'ís were the only group whose ideas had a spiritual and moral basis for the constitution. [AWH87-8]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace was held in Mongolia. A representative of the International Bahá'í Community was the only non-Buddhist speaker invited to address a public meeting held in conjunction with the conference. [AWH88] [VV101]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	Pope John Paul II made mention of the Bahá'ís at a reception held in his honour in Burundi. [AWH88]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	With the approval of the Universal House of Justice, the Bahá'í administrative institutions of the eastern and western parts of Germany are re-united. [BINS230:2]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Bahá'í International Community, through the Office of the Environment in collaboration with other environmental organizations, re-instituted the annual World Forestry Charter Gathering that had be founded in 1945 by Richard St. Barbe Baker. [AWH75] [VV106]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	For the first time a representative of the United Nations officially meets with a representative of the Bahá'í community in Iran. [AWH76]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The International Exposition on Education for Peace sponsored by the National Spiritual Assembly was held in Brazil. Twenty-three embassies and educational institutes participated. [AWH88]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Bahá'í International Community was invited to participate in the World Conference on Education for All in Thailand because of its involvement in the work of the Task Force for Literacy under the aegis of UNESCO. [AWH75]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	A branch of the Bahá'í International Community's United Nations Office for the Pacific region was opened in Suva, Fiji. [AWH76; VV54]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	For the first time a representative of the United Nations was able to officially meet with a representative of the proscribed Bahá'í community in Irán. The report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights resulted in a resolution being adapted on Irán in a session held in Geneva. [AWH76]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The election of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Cluj in Romania, the first new Assembly in the "East Bloc". [AWH73]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The formation of the European Bahá'í Business Forum in France with members from 26 countries in Europe and elsewhere. [VV115] Formed by a group of Bahá'ís active in business and management meeting in Chamonix, France, due to concern about the decline of ethics and values in business. Forum created to promote the moral and spiritual wisdom and principles of the great religious traditions of the world (sources included Judaism, Hinduism, and Christianity as well as the 19th century revelation of Baha'u'llah) such as adherence to the principles of justice, respect, trustworthiness, integrity and unity. Beginning as an informal network, its membership grew requiring the election of a Governing Board. Members have attached importance to sharing their broad experience and to contributing to the improvement of management in emerging free-market economies of Central and Eastern Europe. [ebbf]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The US House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the emancipation of the Iránian Bahá'í community and outlined the steps to be taken by the US government towards this end. [AWH76; VV60]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • January / February A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Brazilian Society of Educators for Peace, conceived and initiated by Bahá'ís, is officially recognized by the Amazonas State Government. [BINS219:3]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • Januayr A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly comprised entirely of newly enrolled Bahá'ís of Ahmadiyyah background is formed in Chak No. 8P Katta, Pakistan. [BINS219:5]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 24 Januayr / 5 February A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The first All-Union Bahá'í Conference was held in Moscow with 250 people gathered from all over the Soviet Union and from 17 other countries. This was the first national Bahá'í conference held in the USSR in about 60 years. [BINS224:8; VV112]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 26 January A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace is established at the University of Maryland's Centre for International Development and Conflict Management at the official signing of the Memorandum of Understanding. [AWH76; BINS217:7; VV108] Professor Suheil Bushrui is appointed to the Chair in 1992. For picture see VV108.
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • 22 February A.D. 1990 • A.M.	Jalál K̲h̲ázeh, Hand of the Cause of God, passes away in Toronto. (b.1897) [BINS219:90] Note: VV123 says it was 20 February. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God on the 6th of December, 1953 after the passing of Hand of the Cause of God Siegfried Schopflocher. [MoCxxiv]
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• 146 B.E. • A.H. • march A.D. 1990 • A.M.	The Haifa District Town Planning Commission approves the plan submitted by the World Centre for the building projects on Mount Carmel. [AWH76]
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