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1924 24 Dec | The first Bahá'í News Letter, forerunner of Bahá'í News, was published in New York by the National Assembly of the United States and Canada with Horace Holley as the editor. [BBRSM122; BW10:180; BW13:856; SBR232]
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- Newsletters; Bahá'í News; Horace Holley; * Publications; - First publications; - Periodicals; New York, USA; USA | ||
1924 Dec | Martha Root gave the first African radio broadcast about the Bahá'í Faith, in Capetown. | Martha Root; Radio; Cape Town, South Africa; - Africa | first African radio broadcast about the Bahá'í Faith, in Cape Town. | |
1924 21 Nov | Dr John E. Esslemont arrived in Haifa to help Shoghi Effendi with his work. [DJEE31; SBR233] | Esslemont; Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Haifa, Israel | ||
1924 Nov | The Supreme Court of Iraq decided against the Bahá'ís in the dispute over the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád. [UD37-8; BN No 9 Dec 1925/Jan 1926 p1] | Court cases; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Persecution, Iraq; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Iraq | ||
1924 22 - 23 Oct | The fourth Race Amity Convention was held in Philadelphia. Because there were few Bahá'ís in the city at that time it required assistance from other communities. Roy Williams played a key role as he had in Springfield. Louis Gregory spent one month writing articles for the newspapers, speaking and serving in other ways.
The first session was attended by some 600 people, and, thanks to the excellent press coverage, 900 were present the second day. The following day, on the 24th of October, the Bahá'í supported a Conference on Inter-racial Justice organized by the Quakers. Followup meetings were held on the 25th and the 26th of October. [SYD147-149] |
Race amity; Roy Williams; Louis G. Gregory; Philadelphia, PA; USA | ||
1924 (Latter part) | In the latter part of 1924, Shoghi Effendi began the process of recording the recollection of the believers who had witnessed the early years of the Bábí and Bahá'í Dispensations. He called for a systematic campaign to assemble such narratives. In the Holy Land,
companions of Bahá'u'lláh such as Áqá Husayn-i-Áshchí were interviewed for what they remembered of the days of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá. Sometimes, as in the case of Áshchí, this happened literally on the person's deathbed. In addition, during the
next two decades, the Guardian wrote to the Bahá'ís of Iran urging them to prepare detailed histories of each local community. He
further called upon believers who had witnessed the unfolding of the Heroic Age to commit their experiences to writing.
In the 19 February 1925 issue of the Baha'i News in Persian, Akhbar-i-Amri, there is an item indicating that the Central Assembly in Tehran had "recently" sent a circular letter to localities in Iran and abroad and appointed a committee to compile the history of the Faith. |
Mírzá Habib Afnan; Ahang Rabbani; - Memoirs and chronicles; Bábí history; Bahá'í history | ||
1924 22 Sep - 3 Oct | The conference `Some Living Religions within the British Empire' was held in London. [BW2:225; ER233; GPB342]
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Conferences, Other; Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Horace Holley; Mountfort Mills; Ruhi Afnan; Afnan; Richard St. Barbe Baker; Interfaith dialogue; London, England; United Kingdom | ||
1924 Sep | Shoghi Effendi returned to the Holy Land after an absence of some six months. [BA65-7; BBRSM117; UD279] | Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Shoghi Effendi, Travels of; Haifa, Israel | ||
1924 18 Jul | American Vice-Consul Major Robert Imbrie was murdered in Tihrán for being a Bahá'í, which he was not, straining relations between the Persian and American governments. When Washington threatened to sever diplomatic relations, Persia arrested some two hundred mullás, formally apologized to the United States and accepted Washington's terms for full reparations. [BBR462-5; BW18:388, [AY277-279]
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Major Robert Imbrie; Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; Tehran, Iran; Iran; USA | ||
3 Jul | Louise Gregory embarked from Boston to Liverpool on the SS Winifredian of the Leyland Line. She spent the summer in the north of England and them visited a friend in Liverpool.
In September she travelled to Luxembourg where she stayed six months finding accommodations again in the old city centre in the Place d'Armes. She was disappointed that her teaching efforts did not meet with more success. In April of 1925 she travelled to Austria. [SYH123, 130] |
Louise Gregory; Teaching; Liverpool, England; United Kingdom; Luxembourg | ||
1924 Jul | The second local spiritual assembly in Australia was formed in Perth. | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Perth, Australia; Australia | ||
1924 22 Jun | Aqá Husayn-`Alí was martyred in Firúzábád, Fárs, Iran. [BW18:388] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Firuzabad, Iran; Fars, Iran; Iran | ||
1924 Ridván | The formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Egypt. It was the first national body in Africa. [BBRSM121; GPB333]
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National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Egypt | The National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt was formed, the first national body in Africa. | |
1924 5 Apr | Shaykh `Abdu'l-Majíd was beaten to death in Turshíz, Khurásán, Iran. [BW18:388] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Turshíz, Iran; Khurásán, Iran; Iran | ||
1924 2 Apr | Bahá'ís in Turbat-i-Haydarí, Iran, were attacked; some were arrested and imprisoned and others were forced to leave the town permanently. [BW18:388] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Turbat-i-Haydari, Iran; Iran | ||
1924 28 - 30 Mar | A public conference devoted to Inter-racial Harmony and Peace, the third Race Amity Convention, was held at the public auditorium of the Community Church of NY on Park Avenue at 34th Street and at the Meeting House of the Society for Ethical Culture at 2 West 64th Street. Its organization was a collaborative effort with the NAACP, the National Urban League and the Bahá'í community participating. Presenters included Mr. Mountfort Mills, Mr. Franz Boas, Dr. Loro, Taracknath Das, Mr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Alain Locke, Mr. James Weldon Johnson, Ms. Ruth Morgan and Mr. John Finley. It was the third Racial Unity conference to be held. [Highlights of the First 40 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in New York, City of the Covenant, 1892-1932 by Hussein Ahdieh p23; BW2:282-3; SBR93; TMW1467; SYH126] | Race amity; Race unity; - Conferences; New York, USA | ||
1924 late Mar | Shoghi Effendi left the Holy Land in an effort to recuperate his health. [BKC200-208] | Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Shoghi Effendi, Travels of; Haifa, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
1924 9 Mar | Two Bahá'ís were imprisoned for several months in Marághih, Iran, after two mullás stirred up trouble against the Bahá'ís. [BW18:388] | Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Maraghih, Iran; Iran | ||
1924 28 Jan | Isabella Brittingham, Disciple of `Abdu'l-Bahá, passed away at the Revell home in Philadelphia. [SEBW138]
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Isabella Brittingham; - Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; In Memoriam; Philadelphia, PA; USA | ||
1924 (In the year) | The publication of The Divine Art of Living by Mary M Rabb. It had been serialized in Star of the West from
Vol 7 No 16 (Dec 31, 1916) to
Vol 8 No 13 (Nov 4, 1917)
and later in
World Order Vol 1 No 1 April 1940 to
Vol 6 No 1 April, 1940. In 1924 was published in a leather bound volume and was reprinted in 1926 by Brentan's of New York. [Collins3.39 - 3.40]
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Divine Art of Living (book); Mary Rabb; New York City, NY | ||
1924 (In the year) | The publication of The Book of Assurance (The Book of Ighan) translated by Ali Kuli Khan with assistance from Howard MacNutt published by Brentano's Publishers for the Bahá'í Publishing Committee in New York. It was published a second time in 1929. [Collins1.10-11] | Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); `Alí Kulí Khán; Howard MacNutt; New York, USA; USA | ||
1924 (In the year) | The publication of Abdul Baha's First Days in America from the Diary of Juliet Thompson by Juliet Thompson. Note that portions of these extracts differ from The Diary of Juliet Thompson published in 1983 by Kalimat Press. | Pilgrims notes; Diary of Juliet Thompson; Juliet Thompson; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology); `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of; East Aurora, NY | ||
1924 (In the year) | In 1924 Amelia Collins became the first to visit Iceland when she and her husband had a two-days stopover while on a cruise. During the time spent in Reykjavik she became friends with Hólmfríôur Árnadóttir with whom she corresponded about the Faith for many years. This same lady was then able to open many doors for Martha Root who followed in July of 1935. Hólmfríôur is considered the first believer in Iceland. [Bahá'í News No 417 10 December 1965 p10-11] | Amelia Collins; Martha Root; Travel Teaching; Holmfriour Arnadottir; Reykjavik, Iceland; Iceland | first Baha'i in Iceland | |
1924 (In the year) | The publication of Episodes in the Life of Moneereh Khanum. Moneereh Khanum translated by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab by the Persian American Publishing Company.
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Munirih Khanum; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology) | ||
1924 (In the year) | The passing of Mírzá Mahmúd-i-Zarqání (b. c1875).
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Mírzá Mahmud-i-Zarqani; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Mahmuds Diary; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of; - Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh | ||
1924 (In the year) | Memorials of the Faithful was published in Farsi under the auspices of the Haifa Bahá'í Assembly. [MFxii] | Memorials of the Faithful (book); * Publications; Haifa Bahá'í Assembly; Haifa Spiritual Assembly; Haifa, Israel | first book printed in Haifa under the Guardianship. [MFxi] | |
1924 (In the year) | Miss Nora Lee, who became a Bahá'í in New Zealand, was the first Bahá'í to travel to Fiji, working as a nanny in Labasa from 1924 to about 1930.
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First Bahá'ís by country or area; First travel teachers and pioneers; Clara Dunn; Hyde Dunn; Fiji; Tasmania, Australia; Hobart, Australia; Launceston, Australia; Devonport, Australia | first Bahá'í to travel to Fiji; first Bahá'í in Tasmania | |
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