Chronology: Chronology: Date 1950-1

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date	event	tags	firsts
1950 15 Dec 195-	The Guardian appealed directly to Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to recognize the interest of the Bahá'í community in the property known as Mazra'ih as a holy place. After a protracted struggle to obtain ownership of the property, then a Moslem religious endowment, he leased the site from the Department of Moslem and Druze affairs in the Ministry of Religions. [DH93, GBF137, PP290, CB331, MBW7, Bahá'í News, no. 244, June 1951, p. 4]	Akka, Israel; David Ben-Gurion; Haifa, Israel; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazra'ih); Israel; Mazraih, Israel
1950 Dec 195-	Jalál Nakhjavání arrived in Tanganyika, the first Bahá'í pioneer to the country. [BW18:79] History of the Bahá'í Faith in Tanzania says that Claire Gung was the 1st pioneer of the Bahá'í Faith in the country. Her biography, Claire Gung: Mother of Africa p14 confirms that she disembarked the The Warwick Castle sometime in February, 1951.	- Pioneers; Claire Gung; Jalal Nakhjavani; Tanganyika, Tanzania	first Bahá’í pioneer to Tanganyika
1950 (Near end of year) 195-	Shoghi Effendi entered into negotiations with the government of Israel to exchange some farm land near the border with Jordan for the same acreage in the vicinity of the Shrine and the Mansion in Bahjí. The difficult and protracted talks lasted two years and involved Mr Hautz and Leroy Ioas, who in March 1952, had become the General Secretariat of the International Bahá'í Council and so had become the lead on the negotiations. [SETPE1p124-125]	* Shoghi Effendi (chronology); Bahji, Israel; Haifa, Israel
1950 1 Nov 195-	Mírzá Badí'u'lláh, the youngest son of Bahá'u'lláh, (b.1867 in Adrianople) described by Shoghi Effendi as the 'chief lieutenant' of the 'archbreaker' of the 'divine Covenant' died. [CB340, 355–6; CF89, BIC162, MSBR63, BBR460, RoB3pg230, CH209, SoB92, CoB340, 355-6, CoF89] A close companion of Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí. [CoB165] All his family became Covenant-breakers. [CoB362] He had a short-lived repentance. [CoB152-3, GPB263, Historical Dictionary of the Bahá'í Faith p321, Interview with Badi'u'llah by Howard MacNutt] He opposed both 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. [CoB165] As an example, in 1939 when Shoghi Effendi proposed to relocate the remains of Mirza Mihdí and Ásíyih Khánum from 'Akka to Haifa, it was Mírzá Badí'u'lláh who led the dissenting faction claiming that as he was more closely related to Mirza Mihdí, it was he, under Moslem law, who had the right to decide as to the disposal of the remains. [BBR460-461]	- Bahá'í World Centre; - Biographies; Covenant-breaking; Haifa, Israel; Mírzá Bádí’u’lláh
1950 Nov 195-	From Switzerland, Shoghi Effendi invited five Bahá'ís—Lotfullah Hakim, Jessie and Ethel Revell, Amelia Collins and Mason Remey—to Haifa. [PP251] They, together with Ben and Gladys Weeden who were already there, were told that they would constitute the International Bahá'í Council. [PP251–2]	- Bahá'í World Centre; Amelia Collins; Ben Weeden; Charles Mason Remey; Ethel Revell; Gladys Anderson Weeden; Haifa, Israel; International Bahá'í Council (1951-1963); Jessie Revell; Luṭfu’lláh Ḥakím; Switzerland
1950 Nov 195-	Brian Burland, the first Bermudian to become a Bahá'í, accepted the Faith in Canada.	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Bermuda; Canada	first Bermudian Bahá'í
1950 23 Oct 195-	Nur Ali, a well-known and respected public servant in Suva, became a Bahá'í, the first to accept the Faith in Fiji.	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Fiji	first Bahá'í in Fiji