March 4
March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 302 days remain until the end of the year.
Events[edit]
- 1845: The Báb sets sail for Búshihr but stops in Muscat for two months.[1]
- 1929: The Council of the League of Nations upholds the claim of the Bahá’í community to the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad.
- 1954: The first Bahá'í pioneers arrive in Kiribati, settling on the island of Abaiang (aka Charlotte Island, of the Gilbert Islands).[2]
- 1978: Yúsif Subhání is arrested at the offices of the Zamzam company and briefly held at Komiteh Prison before being transferred to Qasr Prison.[3]
- 1985: The wife of Nusratu’lláh Subhání, then imprisoned at Evin Prison, is allowed to attend an interrogation session and speak with him for a few minutes. He is executed by hanging the next day.[4]
- 2008: The Bahá’í cemetery in Zarnan is vandalized. Unknown individuals break into the reception room, pour a flammable substance on the floor, burn benches in the room and spray-paint walls outside the building with graffiti.[5]
Births[edit]
- 1876: ‘Azíz’u’lláh Mesbah, headmaster of the Tarbíyat School.
Deaths[edit]
- 1910: Hají Ákhúnd, Hand of the Cause.
- 1984: Muhsin Radavi, Iranian Bahá’í martyr; tortured and executed by hanging at Evin Prison.[6]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Ahang Rabbani, The Genesis of the Babi-Baha'i Faiths in Shiraz and Fars, Brill: Leiden/Boston, 2008, p 35
- ↑ Bahá'í International Community (2004-03-04). "Sailing in for a jubilee". Bahá'í World News Service.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ Yousef Sobhani at iranbahaipersecution.org
- ↑ Nosratollah Sobhani at iranbahaipersecution.org
- ↑ The Bahá’í Question: Cultural Cleansing in Iran. Bahá’í International Community, 2008.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1994). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 19 (1983-1986), Pg(s) 200. View as PDF.