Chronology: Date 1968-12

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
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