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1952 8 Oct 195-	Holy Year, "The Great Jubilee", October 1952 to October 1953, was inaugurated. [MBW16-18; BW12:116; DG84; PP409–10; SBR170–1] Centenary celebrations of the birth of Bahá'u'lláh's mission were initiated. [MBW16–18] "Shoghi Effendi began the Holy Year to commemorate the centenary of Bahá'u'lláh's experience in the Siyáh Chál in October 1952 and closed the Holy Year in October 1953 (which corresponds to the centenary of the "Year Nine", the Islamic year 1269)". [Two Episodes from the Life of Bahá'u'lláh in Iran p21 by Moojan Momen] Four international conferences were scheduled in Kampala, Wilmette (dedication of the Temple), Stockholm and New Delhi. [SETPE2p31-43] For a brief description of the Kampala Conference see CG20-21.	Bahá'u'lláh, Birth of Revelation of; Centenaries; Great Jubilee (1952-1953); Holy Years; India; Kampala, Uganda; New Delhi, India; Síyáh-Chál (Black Pit, Tehran); Stockholm, Sweden; Sweden; Uganda; United States (USA); Wilmette, IL
1952 8 Oct 195-	The Auxiliary Boards were established in 1954 as an extension of the Institution of the Hands of the Cause, which was responsible for protection and propagation of the Faith. In his cablegram of October 8, 1952, Shoghi Effendi called upon all 15 "continental" Hands to appoint, during Ridván, 1954, five Auxiliary Boards, one on each continent, composed of nine members each to work as their deputies along with the National Assemblies to assist in the execution of the twelve teaching plans. [BW13p335, MBW44, 59, 63]	Appointed arm; Auxiliary board members