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date	event	tags	firsts
1950 (In the year) 195-	The publication of The Covenant, An Analysis by George Townshend. It was published in Manchester by the Bahá'í Publishing Trust 15p. [Collins7.2578]	Covenant; Manchester, England
1950 (In the year) 195-	Ghulam Reza Akhzari and his son Nur Allah were killed near Yazd and Bahram Rawhani was murdered in Taft. [Towards a History of Iran's Bahá'í Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979 by Mina Yazdani.]	* Persecution; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; Iran; Taft, Iran; Yazd, Iran
1950 (In the year) 195-	The publication of Prescription for Living by Rúhíyyih Rabbani by George Ronald. The first edition was a run of 300 copies, done in a dark blue cloth, serial numbered and autographed by the author. There were subsequent printings in 1950, 1960, 1972, and 1978. [Collins7.2181-2185; CBN No 13 May 1950] In 1971-1972 the book was transcribed by Gertrude D. Schurgast of Tuscon, AZ into braille. Another "printing" was done by the Service for the Blind Committee in Stevenage, England in 1983. [Collins8.118-119]	* Publications; Amatu’l-Bahá Rúḥíyyih Khánum
1950 (In the decade) 195-	In Iran, the Hujjatiyya Society was started by Shaykh Mahmúd Halabí to persecute and harass the Bahá'ís. [S1296] During the Pahlaví era it confined itself to this end and was called the Anti-Bahá'í Society. [SI296] See The Anti-Bahá'í Society by Mehdi Abedi and Michael M.J. Fischer.	* Persecution; * Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; Hojjatieh Society; Iran
1950 (In the year) 195-	The Court of the First Instance in Karkúk, Iraq, registered a Bahá'í marriage certificate. [MBW4; UD248] This was the first time in the East, outside Israel, that a Bahá'í marriage was recognized as being legal, an important precedent for other Oriental countries. [MBW4; UD248]	Firsts, other; Iraq; Karkuk, Iraq; Marriage; Recognition (legal); Weddings	first Bahá’í marriage recognized in the East (outside Israel)
1950 (In the year) 195-	By this year the Bahá'í population of Black Africa was probably no more than 12. [BBRSM190–1]	- Africa; Statistics