April 25. On this date in 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá attended a dinner held in his honor at the Turkish Embassy in Washington by Ambassador Yusuf Ziya Pasha. The dinner is documented, among other places, in the diaries of Juliet Thompson and Agnes Parsons, who notes 'Abdu'l-Bahá "likened the Ambassador to the sun."

 
April 25. On this date in 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá attended a dinner held in his honor at the Turkish Embassy in Washington by Ambassador Yusuf Ziya Pasha. The dinner is documented, among other places, in the diaries of Juliet Thompson and Agnes Parsons, who notes 'Abdu'l-Bahá "likened the Ambassador to the sun."