Completion of the Baha'i Home for the Aged in Wilmette, Illinois
The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States opened the first dependency of the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois: the Baha'i Home for the Aged.
First International Teaching Conference
The Ten Year Crusade was formally launched with the first International Teaching Conference in Kampala, Uganda (1953). Expansion of the Faith into an unprecedented number of countries came in the next decade, which culminated in the first election of the Universal House of Justice. in 1963.
First African Intercontinental Conference in Kampala, Uganda
Shoghi Effendi launched the first international plan, the Ten Year World Crusade
The Ten Year World Crusade (1953-1963) was launched by Shoghi Effendi in an effort to facilitate an organized expansion of the Baha'i Faith. This plan included extremely ambitious goals for the expansion of Baha'i communities and institutions, the translation of Baha'i texts into several new languages, and the sending of Baha'i pioneers into previously unreached nations.
The Ten Year World Crusade launched during the Internatinal Conference in Stockholm, Sweden
Death of Siegfried Schopflocher, Hand of the Cause of God in Canada
Siegfried Schopflocher, or Fred Schopflocher, as he was commonly called, was born in Germany in 1877 of Jewish parentage.