Chronology: Date 1966-00-00

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1966 (In the Year) 196-	Egyptian security services have exploited the decree to orchestrate six major crackdowns on the Bahá'í community , in 1965, 1967, 1970, 1972,1985 and 2001. The authorities arrested a total of 236 Egyptian Bahá'ís in these crackdowns, on grounds that they had violated the decree or on charges of "contempt of religion" On the few occasions on which arrests were followed by prosecutions, none of the defendants were ever found guilty of violating Law 263/1960 or any other law." from "IV. Egypt's Baha'is and the Policy of Erasure" in Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom by Human Rights Watch.	Persecution, Egypt
1966 (In the year) 196-	In Iraq the national and one local Ḥaẓíratu'l-Quds were seized and the activities of the friends were severely restricted. [Ridván Message, 1966]	Persecution, Iraq
1966 (In the year) 196-	In 1966, as part of the Lamp Unto My Feet series, an ecumenical religious program that was produced by CBS Television and broadcast from 1948 to 1979 on Sunday mornings, the episode And His Name Shall Be One was aired. The film was used by Bahá'ís throughout the world. [BW14p93]	- Film; - Documentaries; Television; And His Name Shall Be One (film); United States (USA)
c. 1966 – 1967 196-	The island of Niue was opened to the Bahá'í Faith for the first time.	Niue, New Zealand
1966 (In the year) 196-	Mm. Marion Magnée arrived in Mali from Belgium, the first Bahá'í to settle in the country.	Marion Magnee; Mali	first Bahá’í to settle in Mali
1966 (In the year) 196-	Jesus Bias Manibusan of Sinajana, Guam, the first Chamorro to become a Bahá'í, enrolled.	Jesus Bias Manibusan; Sinajana, Guam; Guam	first Chamorro Bahá’í
1966 (In the year) 196-	Tommy Kabu, a prominent person from the village of Ara'ava in the Gulf Province and the first in the Territory of Papua to become a Bahá'í, enrolled. [BW15:459–60]	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Papua New Guinea	first Bahá’í in Territory of Papua
1966 (In the year) 196-	Florence Parry, the first to become a Bahá'í in the West Leeward Islands, enrolled.	Florence Parry; Leeward Islands	first Bahá’í in West Leeward Islands


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