Today in Bahá’í History
Selected anniversaries from Bahá’í history for October 8.
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- 1912: `Abdu'l-Bahá speaks at Stanford Junior University in Palo Alto, to an audience of two thousand.
- 1952: Shoghi Effendi announces his decision to launch ‘the fate-laden, soul-stirring, decade-long world-embracing Spiritual Crusade’ in the coming year.
- 1964: The National Spiritual Assembly of Vietnam is incorporated.
- 1967: The foundation stone of the Mother Temple of Latin America, Panama City is laid by Hand of the Cause Ruhiyyih Khanum.