Chronology: Date 1968-1

date	event	tags	firsts
1968 (Late in the year)	Two Chilean Bahá'ís, Aníbal Soto, a telegraph operator in the Chilean Navy and his wife, Norma Soto, were posted to a Chilean base in Antarctica.	Pioneering; Antarctica
1968 10 Dec	The Louis G. Gregory Award for Service to Humanity was established by the National Spiritual Assembly in 1968. The first recipients, honoured at a banquet in the Washington Hilton and sponsored by the North American Bahá'í Office for Human Rights (NABOHR, were the Xerox Corporation and Clark M. Eichelberger. Mr. Eichelberger, Chairman of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, will receive the award for his accomplishments in the field of human rights over a period of many years. He was a consultant to the League of Nations Secretariat and was a member of a committee to prepare the first U.S. working draft of the United Nations Charter. He was a consultant to the U.S. delegation to the 1945 Conference in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. His most recent effort was overseeing the drafting and presentation of a special report on The United Nations and Human Rights. He is the author of four books on the U.N. The Xerox Corporation was selected because of its sponsorship of the television series Of Black America and its other outstanding efforts in behalf of human rights. [Bahá'í National Review Issue 12 December 1968 p3; Bahá'í National Review Issue 14 February 1969 p10]	Race amity; Louis G. Gregory Award for Service to Humanity; Louis G. Gregory; Washington, DC, USA
1968 Dec	George Howard arrived on Union Island, the first person to take the Bahá'í Faith to the Grenadine Islands.	George Howard; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	first Bahá’í teacher to Grenadine Islands
1968 7 Nov	Sixteen Persian Bahá'ís in Algeria were expelled from the country and their properties confiscated; native Algerian Bahá'ís were put under restrictions and five were exiled to the Sahara and the eastern mountain regions. [BW15:172; BWIM114] Following appeals, the confiscated properties were returned and the order of banishment for the local believers was gradually relaxed. [BW15:172]	Persecution, Algeria; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Algeria
1968 4 Nov	Following the participation of Algerian Bahá'ís in the first Oceanic Conference in Palermo, Sicily, and subsequent international news coverage, foreign Bahá'ís in Algeria were summoned by the police and interrogated. [BW15:172]	Persecution, Algeria; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Algeria
1968 Nov	Mohammed Brimer (Mohammed Braimah Belem), the first person to become a Bahá'í in Upper Volta, enrolled.	Mohammed Brimer; Upper Volta	first Bahá’í in Upper Volta
1968 Nov	Fereidun Khazrai arrived in Romanian and was designated a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [Bahaipedia]	Knight of Bahá'u'lláh; Fereidun Khazrai; Romania
1968 24 Oct	The Moroccan Bahá'í sentenced to three years' imprisonment in January 1968 appelled and his sentence was extended to four years. [BW15:172] Despite the efforts of national spiritual assemblies to secure justice for him through their embassies and cables to the King of Morocco, he was made to serve the entire sentence. [BW15:172]	Persecution, Morocco; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Morocco
1968 9 Oct	The widowed mother of seven children was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Morocco for refusing to deny her faith. [BW15:172] Despite the efforts of national spiritual assemblies to secure justice for her through their embassies and cables to the King of Morocco, she was made to serve the entire sentence. [BW15:172]	Persecution, Morocco; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Morocco
1968 9 Oct	The Universal House of Justice addressed its second letter to Bahá'í Youth. [BW15:324; WG152–4; 9 October 1968]	Universal House of Justice; Youth; - Bahá'í World Centre
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