May 3. On this date in 1953, Shoghi Effendi launched the Ten Year Crusade, whose end was timed to coincide with 100th anniversary of Bahá'u'lláh's declaration of himself as "He whom God shall make manifest" to his close companions in the Najibiyyih garden. Shoghi Effendi died before seeing the end of the Ten Year Crusade, which marked the end of the Second Epoch of the Formative Age of the Divine Plan. This corresponds to the First Epoch as defined in 'Abdu’l-Bahá's "Tablets of the Divine Plan".

May 3. On this date in 1953, Shoghi Effendi launched the Ten Year Crusade, whose end was timed to coincide with 100th anniversary of Bahá'u'lláh's declaration of himself as He whom God shall make manifest to his close companions in the Najibiyyih garden. Shoghi Effendi died before seeing the end of the Ten Year Crusade, which marked the end of the Second Epoch of the Formative Age of the Divine Plan. This corresponds to the First Epoch as defined in 'Abdu’l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan.