Today in Bahá’í History
Selected anniversaries from Bahá’í history for May 20.
January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
- 1956: Louisa Mathew Gregory, whose wedding to Hand of the Cause of God Louis Gregory in 1912 was the first interracial western Bahá’í marriage, dies in Eliot, Maine.
- 1974: A mass trial in a military court in Iraq hands down in absentia sentences of life imprisonment on ten Bahá’ís, two of whom are already deceased. In the weeks following, several Bahá’ís in Iraq are imprisoned or have their property confiscated.
- 1978: The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahamas is formed with its seat in Nassau.
