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1920 (In the year) 192-	Agnes Parsons made her second pilgrimage. It was during this visit that 'Abdu'l-Baha charged her with the responsibility to arrange a convention for amity between the the coloured and the white races in Washington. [SYH124-125; TMW136]	Agnes Parsons; Akka, Israel; Bahji, Israel; Haifa, Israel; Pilgrimage; Race amity
1920 (in the year) 192-	Fanny Knobloch arrived in Mozambique, the first Bahá'í to visit this country. She gave some `drawing room talks' at the mansion of the Portuguese Governor-General and spoke at various clubs. [BW2p40]	Fanny Knobloch; Mozambique	first Bahá'í to visit Mozambique
1920 (In the year) 192-	George Townshend became a Bahá'í, and sent a letter of acceptance of the Faith to `Abdu'l-Bahá. [GT49]	- Hands of the Cause; Dublin, Ireland; George Townshend; Ireland
1920 (in the year) 192-	Hyde and Clara Dunn arrived in Samoa enroute to Australia, the first Bahá'ís to visit the islands. For a history of the development of the Faith in Australia and in New Zealand, from 1920 when the Hydes arrived until 1947 when the National Spiritual Assembly initiated a systematic teaching campaign, see Outpost of a World Religion: The Bahá'í Faith in Australia, 1920-1947 by Graham Hassall in Bahá'ís in the West SBBH Vol 14 pp201-226. It is also available on Bahai-Library.com.	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; - Islands; Clara Dunn; Hyde Dunn; Samoa	first to visit Samoa
1920 - 1922 192-	Laura and Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney visited China and the Far East from 1920 to 1922. [Film Early History of the Baha'í Faith in China 8 min 23 sec ]	China; Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney; Laura Clifford Barney
1920 (in the year) 192-	Mírzá Ibráhím Khán, Ibtiháju'l-Mulk, was martyred in Rasht at the hands of the Jangalís. [BW18:387] Momen reports the year of martyrdom as 1921. [Bahá'í History of Gílán by Moojan Momen]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution; - Persecution, Deaths; Iran; Rasht, Iran
1920 (in the year) 192-	The British Mandate for Palestine began. [BBR488] For `Abdu'l-Bahá's attitude to the administration see BBR339. For British accounts of `Abdu'l-Bahá and the Bahá'ís in this period see BBR339-43 and CH225-8. For details see SA140-3.	* `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); History (general); Israel; Palestine; United Kingdom, History (general)
1920 (in the year) 192-	The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád was seized by Shí'ís. [BBD109; GBF33; GPB356-7]	Baghdad, Iraq; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Baghdad); Iraq


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