May 20
May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 225 days remain until the end of the year.
Events[edit]
- 1901: Three additional members are elected to the Chicago Board of Council, making it a twelve member body.
- 1912: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addresses a Woman's Suffrage meeting at the Metropolitan Temple in New York.[1]
- 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.
- 2008: An Iranian government spokesman says that the Yárán have been arrested for “security reasons and not for their faith”, and that they are linked to “foreigners, the Zionists in particular.” The Bahá’í International Community describes the allegations as “utterly baseless and without documentation.” [2]
Births[edit]
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Deaths[edit]
- 1956: Louisa Mathew Gregory, in Eliot, Maine. Her wedding to Hand of the Cause of God Louis Gregory in 1912 was the first interracial western Bahá’í marriage.[3]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Adamson, Hugh C. (2007). Historical dictionary of the Bahá'í Faith (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. p. xxxiv. ISBN 9780810864672.
- ↑ https://news.bahai.org/human-rights/iran/yaran-special-report/chronology
- ↑ Adamson, Hugh C. (2007). Historical dictionary of the Bahá'í Faith (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. p. liv. ISBN 9780810864672.