Chronology: Date 1920-07

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date	event	tags	firsts
1920 28 Jul 192-	Shoghi Effendi journeyed from Oxford to London to attend the weekly public Bahá'í meeting at Lindsay Hall in Notting Hill Gate. Ethel Rosenberg welcomed Shoghi Effendi, Dr. John Esslemont, who was visiting from Bournemouth, Helen Grand and Grace and Harlan Ober from the United States also attended. After short introductory remarks from Miss Rosenberg, both Grace and Harlan Ober spoke. Shoghi Effendi chanted a Persian prayer. [EJR228]	* Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Ethel Rosenberg; John Esslemont; Helen Grand; Grace Robarts Ober; Harlan Ober; London, England; United Kingdom
1920 19 Jul 192-	Shoghi Effendi departed from France two weeks after receiving 'Abdu'l-Bahá's permission to study at Oxford. According to Dr J. Fallscheer, the German woman physician that 'Abdu'l-Bahá had engaged to attend to the ladies of His household, 'Abdu'l-Bahá had decided to send Shoghi Effendi to England while he was still in high school. [PG137-138]	Shoghi Effendi at Oxford; Balliol College, Oxford University; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Josephine Fallscheer; Paris, France; France; Oxford, England; United Kingdom
1920 8 Jul 192-	August Rudd, a Swede who had becme a Bahá'í in America, returned to his native country, to become the first Bahá'í in Sweden. [BWT8:980-2].	August Rudd; Sweden	The the first Bahá'í in Sweden
1920 1 Jul 192-	'Abdu'l-Bahá sent His second Tablet to The Hague. In this second Tablet `Abdu'l-Bahá defined the Bahá'í peace program and covered a wide spectrum of peace-producing Bahá'í social and spiritual teachings. [BW3:12] It was printed in the Star of the West Vol 11 No 17 19 January, 1921. See as well 'Abdu'l-Bahá Champion of Universal Peace by Hoda Mahmoudi and Janet Khan.	Lawh-i-Hague (Tablet to The Hague); Second Tablet to The Hague; * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; Central Organization for a Durable Peace; The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands
1920 Jul 192-	Harlan and Grace Ober made a pilgrimage to visit 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Haifa. They returned via Germany and England where they had the privilege of meeting Shoghi Effendi, then a student at Oxford. In Germany, at the suggestion of 'Abdu'l-Bahá they went to Leipzig where they spoke about the Faith at the Theosophical Society where two persons accepted the Faith. One was future Hand of the Cause Dr Hermann Grossmann and the other was Frau Lina Benke who shared the message with her husband George Adam Benke, the first European martyr. [BW13p869]	Harlan Ober; Grace Robarts Ober; Pilgrimage; Hermann Grossmann; Lina Benke; George Benke; Haifa, Israel; Germany; Leipzig, Germany; Oxford, England
1920 Jul-Aug 192-	Fanny Knobloch, the first Bahá'í teacher in South Africa, arrived in Cape Town. [BW2:40]. In her first week she met Miss Busby who within a very short time is the first person to become a Bahá'í in South Africa.	Fanny Knobloch; Cape Town, South Africa; South Africa	first Bahá'í in South Africa; the first Bahá'í teacher in South Africa


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