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Date 1920-07-00, sorted by event description, descending

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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] George Benke; Germany; Grace Robarts Ober; Haifa, Israel; Harlan Ober; Hermann Grossmann; Leipzig, Germany; Lina Benke; Oxford, England; Pilgrimage
1920 Jul-Aug
192-		 Fanny Knobloch, the first Bahá'í teacher in South Africa, arrived in Cape Town. She pioneered to South Africa from 1920 to 1929 and was assisted occasionally by her sister, Pauling Hannen and, Martha Root in late 1924. .
  • 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. [BW2:40; PHBF8; Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa since 1911; MR197]
    		• Cape Town, South Africa; Fanny Knobloch; South Africa first Bahá'í in South Africa; the first Bahá'í teacher in South Africa
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