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1949 (In the year) 194-	Agnes Harrison (née Parent), an Athabascan, became a Bahá'í in Alaska, the first Native Alaskan to accept the Faith in the country.	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Alaska, USA; United States (USA)	first Native Alaskan
1949 (In the year) 194-	The pamphlet written by by George Townshend to all Christians under the title The Old Churches and the New World Faith was sent out to 10,000 "responsible people" in the British Isles on the occasion of his resignation from the church. [UD470]	* Christianity; * Interfaith dialogue; George Townshend; Ireland; Proclamation; United Kingdom
1949 (In the Year) 194-	The painter Reginald Turvey returned to South Africa from England where he had become a Bahá'í through his association with the well-known painter, Mark Tobey. He was unaware of the existence of Agnes Carey who was in a nursing home in Durban and so he spent a lonely 13-year period of steadfastness in the Faith. For his patience, devotion and subsequent services to the African Bahá'ís, he was given the title of "The Father of the Bahá'ís of South Africa" by Shoghi Effendi when he was on pilgrimage in 1956. [Progress of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa since 1911] In 1986, the year of his passing, George Ronald published a book titled Reginal Turvey - Life and Art:annal, letters and recollections. It was collected and edited why Lowell Johnson. A brief biography and some of his paintings can be found at Bahá'í Library Online and more of his paintings can be viewed at Strauss&co and at MutualArt.	* Publications; Agnes Carey; Arthur Conolly; Durban, South Africa; Honorifics; Mark Tobey; Reginald Turvey; South Africa
1949 (In the year) 194-	The Misaghieh Hospital was gifted to the Bahá'í community in 1949 by a Bahá'í named Abdolmisagh Misaghieh and was managed by the Bahá'í community. After the Islamic Revolution, the Mostazafan Foundation – in English, the Foundation for the Oppressed – confiscated properties belonging to members of the Bahá'í community. The Misaghieh Hospital was among these properties. After its confiscation, the hospital's name was changed to Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital. [Iran Wire]	Abdolmisagh Misaghieh; Iran; Misaghieh Hospital, Tehran; Tehran, Iran
1949 (In the year) 194-	Construction began on the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb. [BBD210] The architect, Sutherland Maxwell, fell desperately ill during the winter of 1949-1950. " He reached a point where he seemed to have no conscious mind left, could not recognize me, his only and idolized child, at all, and had no more control over himself than if he were six months old." [PP155] He was taken to Switzerland where he rapidly recovered. By 1951 his health was so frail he returned to his native Montreal. [PP156]	* Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); - Bahá'í World Centre; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Mount Carmel
1949 (In the year) 194-	A Bahá'í in Kamshatti, near Calcutta, was martyred by a religious fanatic. [BW11:34]	- Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; India; Kolkata, India; Persecution, India


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