Chronology: Date 1980-07

date	event	tags	firsts
1980 29 Jul	Adelbert Mühlschlegel, Hand of the Cause of God, passed away at his pioneer post in Athens, Greece. (b.16 June 1897) [BW18:613; VV52] For his obituary see BW18:611–13. Shoghi Effendi had appointed him among the second contingent on the 29th of February, 1952. [MoCxxiii] Adelbert Milhlschlegel, M.D. (1897-1980) received a Tablet from ' Abdu'I-Bahá and became a close collaborator of Shoghi Effendi who elevated him to the rank of Hand of the Cause. In November 1957 he was asked by Ruhiyyih Khanum to wash and anoint the Guardian's body for burial. Speaking a dozen languages, he taught the Bahá'í Faith in both eastern and western Europe, India, Africa, and South America. Adelbert MiihlschJegel worked on many important translations, wrote a World History, and left a book of poetry. He passed away in Athens and is buried at the foot of the Acropolis. [The German Baha'i Community under National Socialism p30]	Adelbert Muhlschlegel; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; Births and deaths; In Memoriam; Athens, Greece; Greece
1980 27 Jul	The death of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in Cairo. (b.26 October, 1919 in Tehran). Shah of Iran from 16 September, 1941 to 11 February. He came to power after an Anglo-Soviet invasion forced the abdication of his father, Reza Shah. He had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in April 1974 by the French haematologist Professor Jean Bernard, [David Owen] He fled Iran on 17 January and flew to Aswan, Egypt where he was welcomed by President Anwar El-Sadat. Later he lived in Marrakech, Morocco as a guest of King Hassan II. And then Paradise Island in the Bahamas, then Cuernavaca, Mexico, near Mexico City where his medical condition deteriorated. On the 22nd of October he flew New York for treatment in the Cornell Medical Center after President Carter relented. He was later taken to the Kelly Air Force Base in Texas and from there to the Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base. He left the US on the 15th of December, 1979 and lived for a short time in Isla Contadora in Panama where he was taken in under American pressure. The new Iranian government made an attempt to extradite him. In March, 1980 he returned to Egypt having been offered permanent asylum by President Anwar El-Sadat The official cause of death was complications of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma) He was buried in the Al Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo, [Wiki]	Reza Shah Pahlavi; Cairo, Egypt; Egypt
1980 14 - 30 Jul	Representatives of the Bahá'í International Community participated in the Second World Conference of Women in Copenhagen, Denmark and its preparatory conferences in Paris, New Delhi, Macuto (Venezuela) and Lusaka (Zambia). [Wikipedia; BIC History Second World Conference on Women] The BIC presented two statements, Equality, development and peace; and Universal Values for the Advancement of Women. Report of the World Conference of the UN Decade for Women; Equality, Develpment and Peace. (pdf) See UN Women.	United Nations; Bahá'í International Community; - BIC statements; Copenhagen, Denmark; Denmark
1980 14 Jul	Two of the Bahá'ís arrested in Tabríz in April were executed. [BW18:256]	Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution; Tabríz, Iran; Iran
1980 13 Jul	The execution by firing squad of Dr. Faramarz Samandari as well as another Bahá'í by the name of Yadollah Astani, a reputable Tabriz merchant. Dr Samandari had been arrested on April 22nd along with a number of other Bahá'ís in Tabriz who had gathered to discuss what could be done about the Bahá'ís who had been expelled from government employment. Raised in Babol he had studied medicine in Tehran, completed his military service then left for England to study English and then Canada. After completing his studies in which he trained as an otolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat specialist), he returned to Iran. His Canadian fiancee, Anita, followed and they were married in 1971. She and their three children, all under the age of seven, left Iran after the Revolution on the advice of the Canadian Embassy. He was 48 years old at the time of his execution and was considered one of the top microscopic ear surgeons in the world. He was an innovator who devised a new method of ear surgery for the treatment of deafness. The method, now used in a modernized form around the world, allows a surgeon to implant a small hearing aid behind the ear of a hearing impaired person in a way that cannot been seen. [Iran Wire]	Persecution, Iran; Yadollah Astani; Dr. Faramarz Samandari; Tabríz, Iran; Iran; Babul (Barfurush), Iran; Iran
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