Chronology: Date 1952-00

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date	event	tags	firsts
1952 (In the year) 195-	Walli Khan, a Fiji Indian, became a Bahá'í, the first person in Fiji to accept the Faith.	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Fiji	first Bahá'í in Fiji
1952 (In the year) 195-	The establishment of the Bahá'í Service for the Blind and the Physically Handicapped as a committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States. Its purpose is to provide the literature of the Faith in mediums which can be used by those individuals whose physical or mental handicaps prevent them from using normal print. [website]	Blindness; Disability; United States (USA)
1952 (In the year) 195-	Published on the instructions of Shoghi Effendi, Dr Yúnis Afrukhtih's Khatirát-i-Nuh-Saliy-i- Akká, has been described as "pre-eminent among those works dealing with the history of Covenant-breaking". The English translation was titled, Memories of Nine Years in Akka) by Riaz Masrour and was published by George Ronald in 2004. Over those nine years, 1900 to 1909, Jináb-i-Khán (the title by which Dr. Yúnis Afrukhtih was honoured by 'Abdu'l-Bahá) served the Master in Akká as secretary, translator, envoy and physician. These were difficult years when the Master was imprisoned in the city of Akká, His every move subject to misrepresentation by the Arch-breaker of the Covenant and his associates, and even His life was in danger. At the same time the period saw the victories of the construction of the Shrine of the Báb and the House of Worship in Ishqábád, as well as the rise of the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh in the West.	Youness Afroukhteh (Yunis Afrukhtih); * `Abdu'l-Bahá (chronology); Memories of Nine Years in Akka (book); Riaz Masrour; Covenant-breaking
1952 (In the year) 195-	Mr Narain Das, a textile salesman from India working in Singapore, became a Bahá'í, the first person in the country to accept the Faith. A few months later Mr Teo Geok Leng, a Chinese Singaporean, became a Bahá'í, the first native of Singapore to accept the Faith.	- First Bahá'ís by country or area; Singapore	first Bahá'í in Singapore; first Chinese Singaporean Bahá'í
1952 (In the year) 195-	Dudley Smith Kutendere from Zomba in the south of Malawi became a Bahá'í in Dar-es-Salaam, the first African to become a Bahá'í in Tanganyika and the first in all of Central and East Africa. Denis has the unique distinction of being the first native believer in sub-Sahara Africa to take the Faith to a new country when in 1952 he left Tanzania to return to his native Nyasaland settling in his home town of Zomba. [A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2]	Dudley Smith Kutendere; Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania; Zomba, Malawi; Malawi	first African Bahá’í in Tanganyika, and Central and East Africa
1952 (In the year) 195-	Bahá'ís and their homes were attacked in Najafábád, Iran, and several houses were set on fire. [BW18:390]	* Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; Najaf, Iranabad, Iran; Iran
1952 (In the year) 195-	Aziz Yazdi from Persia joined Ted Cardell in Nairobi. In 1953 they were joined by Ursula Samandari from England. [A Brief Account of the Bahá'í Faith in Africa Since 1953 by Nance Ororo-Robarts and Selam Ahderrom p2]	Pioneering; Aziz Yazdi; Ted Cardell; Ursula Samandari; Nairobi, Kenya; Kenya


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