Chronology: Date 1979-03

date	event	tags	firsts
1979 Mar	Yúsif Subhání, a well-known Bahá'í businessman, was imprisoned in Tihrán. [BW18:278]	Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution; Iran; Tehran, Iran
1979 21 Mar	The Universal House of Justice outlined the broad goals of the Seven Year Plan to he launched at Ridván 1979. [BW18:81–5]	Seven Year Plan (1979-1986); - Teaching Plans; - Bahá'í World Centre
1979 21 Mar	The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a programme of activities to be undertaken during the second half of the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. On that occasion, the General Assembly decided that a week of solidarity with the peoples struggling against racism and racial discrimination, beginning on 21 March, would be organized annually in all States. The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid "pass laws" in 1960. [United Nations website. Sharpville Massacre on 21 March 1960. This is a day which is commemorated each year in South Africa.	United Nations; International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Racism; Sharpeville, South Africa; South Africa
1979 (Spring)	The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Tákur, Iran, was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government. [BW18:289]	House of Bahá'u'lláh (Takur); Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Takur, Iran; Iran
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