Chronology: Date 1924-1

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Date 1924-1, descending — sort earliest first

date	event	tags	firsts
1924 24 Dec 192-	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] For links to the publications see entry at 1990-10-00.	- Newsletters; Bahá'í News; Horace Holley; * Publications; - First publications; - Periodicals; New York, USA; USA
1924 Dec 192-	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 192-	Dr John E. Esslemont arrived in Haifa to help Shoghi Effendi with his work. [DJEE31; SBR233]	Esslemont; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Haifa, Israel
1924 Nov 192-	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 192-	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) 192-	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. One such narrative by Mírzá Habíb Afnán was entitled (Khátirát-i-Hayát) Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá. It is available in the English translation by Ahang Rabbani.	Mírzá Habib Afnan; Ahang Rabbani; - Memoirs and chronicles; Bábí history; Bahá'í history


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