Chronology: Date 1920-07-00

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date	event	tags	firsts
1920 Jul 192-	Harlan and Grace Ober made a pilgrimage to visit 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Haifa. They returned via Germany and England where they had the privilege of meeting Shoghi Effendi, then a student at Oxford. In Germany, at the suggestion of 'Abdu'l-Bahá they went to Leipzig where they spoke about the Faith at the Theosophical Society where two persons accepted the Faith. One was future Hand of the Cause Dr Hermann Grossmann and the other was Frau Lina Benke who shared the message with her husband George Adam Benke, the first European martyr. [BW13p869]	Harlan Ober; Grace Robarts Ober; Pilgrimage; Hermann Grossmann; Lina Benke; George Benke; Haifa, Israel; Germany; Leipzig, Germany; Oxford, England
1920 Jul-Aug 192-	Fanny Knobloch, the first Bahá'í teacher in South Africa, arrived in Cape Town. [BW2:40]. In her first week she met Miss Busby who within a very short time is the first person to become a Bahá'í in South Africa.	Fanny Knobloch; Cape Town, South Africa; South Africa	first Bahá'í in South Africa; the first Bahá'í teacher in South Africa


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