Chronology: Date 1953-09-1

date	event	tags	firsts
1953 18 Sep	Dwight and Carole Allen arrived in Athens and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Greece. [BW13:452]	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Athens, Greece; Greece
1953 Sep	Hugh McKinley and his mother, Violet, arrived in Cyprus and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450] Violet passed away in 1959 and she was laid to rest in Famagusta. Hugh remained in Cyprus until 1963. He died in Suffolk in 1999 was was buried in Lawshall, Suffolk. He had been born on the 18th of February, 1924. See Ismael Velasco's paper entitled In Memoriam: Hugh McKinley. See Life of Hugh McKinley, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh by Olive McKinley. See Memoram: Hugh McKinley by Ismael Velasco.	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Hugh McKinley; Violet McKinley; Ismael Velasco; Olive McKinley; Cyprus; Famagusta, Cyprus
1953 Sep	Elsa Grossman arrived in the Frisian Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452]	Elsa Grossmann; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Frisian Islands
1953 Sep	Diá'i'lláh Asgharzádih arrived in the Channel Islands and was named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450]	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Diaillah Asgharzadih; Channel Islands, UK
1953 Sep	Howard Snider arrived in Key West and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453]	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Key West, FL
1953 Sep	Dick Stanton arrived in Keewatin and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453]	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Keewatin, NT
1953 12 Sep	Nellie French arrived in Monaco and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454] Then 85, she was the first Bahá'í to arrive in Monaco, but she passed away a few months later. For her act of service in bringing the Faith to the country, she received the accolade Knight of Baha'u'llah from Shoghi Effendi. A celebration to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in the Principality was held on 24-25 April 2004 at the Theatre des Varietes in Monte Carlo, and opened with the reading of a welcoming message from the National Council of the Principality. [Newspaper Archive on BLO]	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Monaco
1953 Sep	Cora Oliver arrived in British Honduras (Belize) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449]	Cora Oliver; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Belize
1953 9 Sep	José (d. 1985) and Hilda (née Summers) Xavier Rodrigues, a Portuguese-English couple, arrived in Bissau from Portugal as the first Bahá'í pioneers to Portuguese Guinea (Guinea Bissau) and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]	- Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Portuguese Guinea; Guinea Bissau
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