Chronology: Date 1993-01

date	event	tags	firsts
1993 31 Jan	The opening of the Banani School with 65 students in Chisamba, Lusaka, Zambia. At the time of the school's inauguration on the 18th of May, 1996 there were 120 students, a library, a multimedia computer lab, a swimming pool, and a school bus. It was inaugurated by the William Mmutle Masetlha Foundation under the direction of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Zambia and named after Hand of the Cause Musa Banani. The Primary School was inaugurated on 22 August, 2001. Today the Banani International School is a private, not for profit residential school for 150 girls from Grades 6 through 12. [Website; Wikipedia; Bahaipedia]	Banani School, Zambia; Banani International School, Zambia; - Bahá'í inspired schools; Chisamba, Zambia; Lusaka, Zambia; Zambia
1993 29 – 31 Jan	The first Latin American Bahá'í Social and Economic Development Seminar took place in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. [BINS308:2; BW92–3:139]	Conferences, Bahá'í; Social and economic development; - First conferences; Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Bolivia; Latin America	First Latin American Bahá'í Social and Economic Development Seminar
1993 19 Jan	The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland was inaugurated. It was situated in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. [BW92–3:140–1] The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace is an academic program that conducts and publishes research with a diverse group of scholars on global issues. The organization's purpose is to study worldwide challenges and discuss solutions that could advance peace and promote tolerance. In addition to conducting academic research and releasing publications, the chair hosts events at the University of Maryland that are available to students, university staff and the general public. Although the chair was inspired by the spiritual teachings of the Bahá'í faith's focus on humanity's unity, the program emphasizes science-based analysis along with the values the Faith provides. [Unwind Magazine]	Bahá'í Chair for World Peace; University of Maryland; Maryland, USA; USA
1993 17 Jan	The first World Religion Day commemoration to be held in Mozambique took place in Maputo. [BINS290:5; BW92–3:140]	World Religion Day; Maputo, Mozambique; Mozambique	first...The first World Religion Day commemoration to be held in Mozambique
1993 6 Jan	The Universal House of Justice announced the appointment of the International Panel of Spanish Translations of Bahá'í Literature. The panel initially consisted of three competent and experienced believers: Mr. Nabil Perdu of Spain, Mr. Conrad Popp of Chile, and Mrs. Migdalia Diez of Puerto Rico. This group was made responsible for producing authorized Spanish versions of the Bahá'í Writings suitable for all the Spanish-speaking Bahá'ís of the world. [www.bahaipanel.org ; Message from the Universal House of Justice]	Spanish translation; Translation; - Bahá'í World Centre
1993 6 Jan	The passing of John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (b. 21 October 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina). He was buried next to his mother in Flushing Cemetery, New York. [VV141] His autobiography was entitled "To Be, or Not...to Bop". He had become a Bahá'í in 1968 at the age of 51. See Bahá'í World 1994-95 pg251 for an article by Anne Boyles entitled "The Language of the Heart: Arts in the Bahá'í World Community" for mention of Dizzy Gillespie. Find a grave	Dizzy Gillespie; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Jazz music; - Famous Bahá'ís; Englewood, NJ; New Jersey, USA; USA
1993 4 Jan	The publication of Asiyih Khanum, The Most Exalted Leaf, entitled Navvab by Baharieh Rouhani Man'ani. It was published by George Ronald. it is a biographical essay of the wife of Bahá'u'lláh, the Founder of the Bahá'í Faith, and mother of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the Centre of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant. Her story, little known, is one of strength, patience, long-suffering and devotion to One who was her 'husband, the Lord of Hosts', whom she accompanied through all the vicissitudes of exile and imprisonment.
1993 Jan	Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the United Nations' special representative in charge of monitoring the human rights situation in Iran, revealed a secret document written by Iran's Supreme Revolutionary Cultural Council providing evidence that the Iranian Government had formulated a plan to oppress and persecute the Bahá'í community both in Iran and abroad. [BW92–3:139; BW93–4:154; BWNS879]	Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution, Human rights; - Persecution; Human Rights; United Nations; Iran
1993 Jan	In a commitment to education and the welfare of humanity, the Bahá'ís have setup 60 grassroots Bahá'í literacy schools and 30 Bahá'í primary health care workers were trained and deployed. The largest scale institution is the private school named the Bambino School in Lilongwe. A Bahá'í school started in January 1993 and in 2003 Bambino School had an enrolment of 1,100 from nursery level through secondary school and secretarial college and has high school graduation including taking the International General Certificate of Secondary Education. See BWNS240 from 1963 for a recap of the early Bahá'í history of Malawi.	Bambino School, Malawi; - Bahá'í inspired schools; Lilongwe, Malawi
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