Chronology: Date 1953-10-0

date	event	tags	firsts	refs
1953 Oct	Salvador and Adela Tormo arrived on the Juan Fernandez Islands and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Juan Fernandez Islands; Chile
1953 Oct	Richard and Lois Nolen and children Linda Jean, Cynthia and John arrived in the Azores and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13p449; Bahaipedia]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Richard Nolen; Lois Nolen; Azores
1953 Oct	Earle Render arrived in the Leeward Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Leeward Islands
1953 7 – 15 Oct	The Asian Intercontinental Teaching Conference was held in New Delhi. [BW12:178; CBN No 50 Mar 1953 p6-7] For Shoghi Effendi's message to the conference see BW12:178–81. At the request of our beloved Guardian a memorial service was held for our dearly loved Hand of the Cause, Mr. Sutherland Maxwell. Loving tributes were paid to his memory by Mr. Remey and Mr. Giachery. [CBN No 50 Mar 1953 p6] For a report of the conference see BW12:181–8. Photos. This was the first international Bahá'í gathering ever to be held in the East. [BW12:181; SBR171] It was attended by 489 Bahá'ís representing 31 countries. [BW 12:181] The design for the International Bahá'í Archives was revealed to the Bahá'ís of the world for the first time at this conference. [DH168] Following the New Delhi conference the Hands of the Cause and other visiting Bahá'ís travelled the length and the breadth of the country speaking in universities, teachers' training colleges, agricultural schools, theatres, hotels, Y.M.C.A.'s, at service clubs, and theosophical societies. Prominent citizens representative of the Hindu, Moslem and Christian faiths were chairmen at many of these meetings. There were numerous press conferences and wide-spread newspaper publicity. The Hands of the Cause were able to present Bahá'í books to world famous Indian scholars, to the family of the Maharaja of Indore and to representatives of the press. Perhaps never since Abdu'l·Bahá visited America has the Faith been presented in such a variety of places in so short a time. Dorothy Baker was one of the Hands who participated in this post-conference proclamation. [CBN No54 Jul 1954 p5]	Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade; International Bahá'í Archives; Teaching; - First conferences; New Delhi, India; India; Asia	first international Bahá’í gathering in the East
1953 7 Oct	William Danjon Dieudonné arrived in Andorra and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW12:449] He continued to live in the country. By 1979 Andorra had a Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly in Andorra-la-Vella and three localities. [BN No 581 August 1979 p11]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Andorra; Europe
1953 Oct	Marie Ciocca Holmlund arrived on Sardinia and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Sardinia
1953 4 Oct	Una Townshend arrived at her pioneer post. It was planed that her father, Hand of the Cause George Townshend, accompany her to Malta where the warm climate might improve his health. He was not well enough to go so Una went alone. Unfortunately his illness advanced and Shoghi Effendi asked her to return home to care for him so she left at the end of 1954. Una and her brother Brian helped him to complete Christ and Bahá'u'lláh by writing down his dictations as he was dying from Parkinson's. Shoghi Effendi called the book Hand of the Cause of God George Townshend's 'crowning achievement'. [KoB359-360]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Malta
1953 Oct	Geraldine Graney arrived in the Hebrides and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Geraldine Graney; Hebrides
1953 Oct	Charles Dunning arrived in the Orkney Islands and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455] ul> In probably it was October of 1954 Harold and Marzieh Gail depart from St Matthew's Quay in Aberdeen destined to pay a visit to Charles Dunning in Kirkwall. On the island the diminutive Charles Dunning is referred to as "a wee chappie". [OPOP55-59]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Orkney Islands
1953 Oct	Lionel Peraji arrived in Mahé and is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Mahe
1953 Oct	The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Emma Rice, followed one week later by Knights Stanley and Florence Bagley and their three teenage children, Susan, Gerrold and Carol in Palermo, Sicily. [BWNS254]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Sicily, Italy; Italy
1953 Oct	Claire Gung arrived in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. She spent 18 months in Salisbury (Harare) where she was a member of the first local spiritual assembly. [CG161]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); Zimbabwe	first spiritual assembly of Salisbury (Harare)
1953 Oct	The superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb was completed. [BBD210; CB324–5; PP235; ZK85–6] Marble for the Shrine of the Báb came from Chiampo, Italy as did marble for the Archives Building, the Resting Place of Shoghi Effendi, the Seat of the Universal House of Justice, the Terraces Project, the Monument Gardens and the Houses of Worship in India and Samoa. It was cut and chiseled by a firm called Margraf, formerly known as Industria Marmi Vincentini. [BWNS1223] 'Abdu'l-Bahá described the Shrine of the Báb as the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár. [ABF18] In a letter from the International Bahá'í Council dated the 2nd of May 1955, they reported on the great interest that has been taken in the Shrine of the Báb since the completion. [CBN No65 Jun 1955 p1; BN 292 Jun 1955 p4]	Báb, Shrine of; Marble; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; - Bahá'í World Centre; Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; Margraf; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel; Mount Carmel, Israel; Chiampo; Italy
1953 Oct	Muhammad Mustafá Sulaymán, an Egyptian, arrived in Spanish Sahara (Western Sahara) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. BW13:456] For the story of his life see BW18:768–71.	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Muhammad Mustafa Sulayman; Spanish Sahara (Western Sahara)
1953 Oct	Edmund ('Ted') Cardell arrived in Windhoek and wss named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for South West Africa (Namibia). [BW13:456] He was later joined by his wife Alicia and the first German Bahá'ís to pioneer to Africa, Martin and Gerda Aiff and their children. In 1955 Hilifa Andreas Nekundi, (also known as Tate Hilifa), was the first Namibian to become a Bahá'í. Mr. Nekundi later served on the first Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Windhoek, and the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Namibia. [BWNS280]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Ted Cardell; Alicia Cardell; Martin Aiff; Gerda Aiff; Hilifa Andreas Nekundi; Tate Hilifa; Windhoek; West Africa (Namibia); Namibia	first German Bahá’ís pioneers to Africa; the first Namibian to become a Bahá'í.
1953 Oct	The arrival of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Edith Danielson in the Cook Islands. [BWNS265]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Cook Islands; Pacific
1953 Oct	Katharine Meyer arrived on Margarita Island and was named Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:454]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Katharine Meyer; Margarita Island
1953 Oct	Ursula von Brunn arrived in the Frisian Islands and was named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452]	Ursula von Brunn; Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Frisian Islands
1953 Oct	Helen Robinson arrived on Baranof Island and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:449]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Baranof Islands
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