Today in Bahá’í History
Selected anniversaries from Bahá’í history for October 15.
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- 1848: The siege of the Shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí begins.
- 1855: Robert Turner (pictured), the first black American Bahá'í, is born.
- 1953: Knights of Bahá’u’lláh: Eberhard Friedland arrives in French Guiana; Enoch Olinga arrives in Victoria (Limbé), in the British Cameroons.
- 1961: The fifth Conclave of the Hands of the Cause of God is convened at Bahjí.