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Baha'i Calendar Events and Holy Days in 1968

February 19, 1968

First Ruling Monarch to become a Baha'i accepts the Faith

His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II - Head of State of Western Samoa (January 4, 1913 - May 11, 2007) (also called Susuga), He was First Ruling Monarch to become a Baha'i accepts the Faith.

July 7, 1968

Death of Hermann Grossman, Hand of the Cause of God

He was appointed a Hand of the Cause of God by Shoghi Effendi December 24, 1951

August 10, 1968

Death of Lutfu'llah Hakim member of the first Universal House of Justice

Lutfu'llah Hakim (1888 - August 10, 1968) was a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Baha'i Faith, from 1963 to 1968. Dr. Hakim was born into a family of distinguished Jewish medical doctors in Iran in 1888. His grandfather, Hakim Masih, was the first Jew to embrace the Faith of Baha'u'llah. In 1920, Abdu'l-Baha asked Lutfu'llah Hakim to accompany Shoghi Effendi to England. Dr. Hakim was in Haifa when Abdu'l-Baha passed away in November 1921. In 1924 he returned to Persia and in 1950 he moved again to England. Later the Guardian summoned him to the World Center and he was appointed to the first International Baha'i Council in 1951. He was later elected to the first Universal House of Justice in 1963.

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