Timeline
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In 1901 - A 39,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered in Russia. In
1799 - A 33,000 year-old frozen mammoth is discovered at the Lena River
in Russia.
21000 BC -Erection of first Pyramid
16000 BC -Hercules starts reign in Egypt at start of Ascending Golden
Age
11501 BC Start of Descending Golden Age
10000 BC - Jericho, the oldest known city, is built in the Middle East.
9600 BC Atlantis Conquered by Greeks
6702 BC Start of Descending Silver Age
3102 BC Start of Descending Bronze Age
2650 BC - The Step Pyramid of King Zoser, is built at Saqqara in Egypt.
1200 BC - Moses leads the Israelites from Egypt toward Canaan.
753 BC - ROME
750 BC Krishna (later Babaji)
& Arjuna (later Paramahansa Yogananda)
702 BC Start of Descending Kali Yuga
550 BC - Lao-Tzu develops the Tao Te Ching, outlining the philosophy of
Taoism.
480 BC - Siddhartha Gautam, the Buddha, dies about this time in India.
370 BC - Greek philosopher Plato writes The Republic.
327 BC - Alexander invades India.
300 BC-Ramayana
3 BC JESUS CHRIST
498 AD Start of Ascending Kali Yuga
553 AD - Reincarnation abolished from Christian Doctrine
800's - Shankara (disciple of Babaji) forms the modern Swami Order.
1066 - William The Conqueror William duke of Normandy (Paramahansa
Yogananda) defeats the Saxon king Harold at the Battle of Hastings.
1182 -1684 AD
1698 AD Start of Dwapara Yuga
1701-1826 AD
1826 - People begin to understand the principles of electricity, thus
making the reintroduction of Kriya Yoga to the world practical.
1826 - 1893 AD
1828, September 30, Birth of Lahiri Mahasaya, Ghurni, India.
1855, May 10 -Birth of Swami Sri Yukteswar, Serampore, India.
1861 - Lahiri Mahasaya receives Kriya Yoga from Mahavatar Babaji.
1869, July 4 -Birth of Sri Gyanamata.
1892, May 5 -Birth of Rajasi Janakananda.
1893, January 5 -Birth of Paramahansa Yogananda at Gorakhpur, India.
1893, March 26 -Birth of Dr. Minnott White Lewis (America's first
Kriyaban).
1895 - X rays are discovered by German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen.
1895, September 26 -Lahiri Mahasaya enters Mahasamadhi, Banaras,
India.
1900, August 16-Birth of (Lauri Pratt) Tara Mata d. 1971, January
18th.
1900 - Max Planck formulates the quantum theory in physics.
1900 - Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of
Dreams.
1901 - American surgeon Walter Reed proves that yellow fever is
transmitted by mosquitoes.
1901 - An American League of baseball is formed in competition to the
National League.
1901 - Guglielmo Marconi tests radio transmissions between England and
Newfoundland.
1901 - Sergei Rachmaninoff writes his Second Piano Concerto.
1902 - Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso makes his first phonographic
recording.
1903 - Marie and Pierre Curie win the Nobel Prize for Physics for their
work on radioactivity.
1903 - Orville Wright makes the first successful flight in a
self-propelled airplane.
1903, November 8 -Birth of Ma Durga (Florina Alberta Darling-Iron
Mountain, MI).
1904, April 26 -Passing of Paramahansaji's mother.
1905 - German physicist Albert Einstein proposes his Special Theory of
Relativity.
1908 - The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T automobile.
1910- Mother Teresa of Calcutta, b. Aug. 27, 1910 d. 1997
1912 - German geophysicist Alfred Wegener formulates his continental
drift hypothesis.
1913 - Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his atomic theory.
1913 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for
literature.
1913 - Federal income tax is introduced in the U.S.
1913 - Samuel Goldwyn founds his first movie company with Jesse Lasky
and Cecil B. De Mille.
1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo,
precipitating World War I.
1914 - The Panama Canal is completed, connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans.
1914 - France, Russia and Britain (the Allies) are at war with Germany
and Austria-Hungary.
1914, January 31 -Birth of Sri Daya Mata (Faye Wright-Salt Lake
City, UT).
1914, November 2 -Birth of Brother Bhaktananda (Michael
Krull-Pittsburg, PA)
1915, July -Master initiated into the ancient monastic Swami Order by
his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar.
1915 - Albert Einstein formulates his General Theory of Relativity.
1916, -Birth of Ananda Mata (Virginia Wright-Salt Lake City, UT)
1917, March 22 -Master founds Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and
first YSS school, in Dihika, India.
1917 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of the
Unconscious.
1918 - American astronomer Harlow Shapley discovers the dimensions of
the Milky Way.
1918 - An influenza pandemic begins (it kills 21-22 million in 2
years).
1918 - The Weimar Republic negotiates an armistice for Germany, ending
World War I.
1919 - British troops massacre demonstrators at Amritsar in India.
1920 - Adolf Hitler forms the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi)
party.
1920 - Mahatma Gandhi begins a noncooperation campaign against British
rule in India.
1920 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives women the
right to vote.
1920, July 25 -Master is ordained by Mahavatar Babaji to disseminate
Kriya Yoga Worldwide
1920, September 19 -Master arrives in America as India's delegate to
the International Congress of Religious Liberals, Boston, MA.
1920, October 6 -Gives first lecture in America, to International
Congress of Religious Liberals in Boston, MA.
1920, December 24 -Meets Dr. M.W. Lewis. One of his first disciples
in America.
1921 - The Reparations Commission fixes Germany's liability at 132
billion gold marks.
1921, March 4 -Master delivers first public lecture in America,
Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.
1921, October -Meets Mrs. Alice Hasey, whom he recognized "as the one
who will start the [SRF] center," and who later became known as Sister
Yogmata, the first sister ordained by Parmahansa Yogananda.
1922 - DeWitt Wallace launches Reader's Digest magazine.
1922 - Emily Post publishes Etiquette in Society, in Business, in
Politics, and at Home.
1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is imprisoned for civil disobedience in India.
1922, May 17 -Master speaks at World Peace Meeting, Steinert Hall,
Boston, MA.
1922, June 13-Establishes first SRF Ashram in America at N. Waltham,
MA.
1922, November 1 -Birth of Brother Anandamoy (Henry
Schaufelberger-Switzerland)
1923 - Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce found the weekly newsmagazine
Time.
1923 - Child violinist Yehudi Menuhin makes his public debut at age 7.
1923 - Filmmaker Cecil B. De Mille directs the biblical epic The Ten
Commandments.
1923 - Physicist Hermann Oberth publishes The Rocket into Planetary
Space.
1923 - Vladimir Zworykin patents the iconoscope, the first television
transmission tube.
1923, February 23 -Master lectures at Harvard University.
1923, November 5 -Lectures to Applied Psychology Club, Worcester, MA.
1923, November 24 -Conducts first public lecture in New York City and
begins 4 month series of classes there.
1924 - Adolf Hitler publishes his Nazi political tract Mein Kampf (My
Battle).
1924 - French physicist Louis de Broglie proposes the wavelength nature
of particles.
1924, May 1 -Master begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Philadelphia, PA; Symphony conductor Leopold
Stokowski is one of many who become students.
1924, July 11 -Departs New York for first cross-continental speaking
tour.
1924, August 11 -Begins series of lectures and classes during first
visit to Denver.
1924, September 9 -Departs for Alaska via steamer.
1924, October 7 -Begins two weeks of lectures and classes during
first visit to Seattle WA.
1924, October 21 -Begins ten days of lectures and classes during
first visit to Portland; introduces use of Scientific Healing
Affirmations.
1924, November 7 -First lecture in Berkeley and visit to University
of California.
1924, November 10 -Begins two weeks of lectures and classes during
first visit to San Francisco, CA.
1924, November 22 -Meets Luther Burbank, famed horticulturist, who
becomes his student, Santa Rosa, CA.
1924, November 23 -Begins first series of lectures and classes,
Oakland, CA.
1925, January 13 -Begins two months of lectures and classes during
first visit to Los Angeles, CA.
1925, March 18 -Begins first series of lectures and classes in Long
Beach, CA.
1925 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble composes a classification scheme for
galaxies.
1925 - John T. Scopes is tried in Tennessee for teaching the theory of
evolution.
1925, April 12 -Master holds first Easter Service at Mt. Washington,
CA. Begins first series of lectures and classes in San Diego.
1925, May 10 -Begins two weeks of lectures and classes during first
visit to Fresno, CA.
1925, July 12 -Meets Sri Gyanamata, Seattle, WA.
1925, September 13 -Begins two weeks of lectures and classes during
first visit to Spokane, WA.
1925, September 17 -Mahatma Gandhi visits YSS school in Ranchi.
1925, October 25 -Master dedicates SRF International Headquarters
atop Mt. Washington in Los Angeles CA.
1925, November 9 -Meets with President of American Indian
Association, and with Chief of Yakima Tribe, SRF International
Headquarters.
1925, November 17 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Chicago, IL.
1925, December -East-West magazine first published (later renamed
Self-Realization).
1925, December 13 -Begins series of lectures and classes during first
visit to Rochester, NY, where he meets with George Eastman, inventor of
Kodak camera.
1926, January 10 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Cleveland, OH.
1926, February 21 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Pittsburgh, PA.
1926, April 18 -Opening of week-long series of public lectures at
Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY.
1926 - American physicist Robert Goddard launches the first
liquid-propellant rocket.
1926, May -Master begins three weeks of lectures and classes during
first visit to Detroit; among those who attend and become students of
his teachings is Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of Mark Twain.
1926, May 9 -Birth of Bro. Bimalananda (Joseph Carbone-NY)
1926 June -Master addresses Universal Islamic Society, Detroit, MI.
1926, June 24 -Addresses Annual Congress of the International New
Thought Alliance, NYC.
1926, October 3 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Cincinnati OH.
1927, January 9 -Begins two months of lectures and classes during
first visit to Washington DC.
1927, January 24 -Received by the President of the United States,
Calvin Coolidge, at the White House, Washington, DC.
1927 - Baseball player Babe Ruth scores a record 60 home runs for the
New York Yankees.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh flies solo nonstop from New York to Paris in
33.5 hours.
1927 - Comedy team Laurel and Hardy appear in their first film Putting
Pants on Philip.
1927 - Georges Lemaitre proposes an expanding model for the creation of
the universe.
1927, February 22 -Master visits Mount Vernon, George Washington's
home in Virginia.
1927, April 3 -Begins two months of lectures and classes in Buffalo,
NY.
1927, April 19 -Visits Niagara Falls, NY.
1927 September 18 -Begins six weeks of lectures and classes during
first visit to Minneapolis MN.
1927, September 19 -Received by Massachusetts Governor Alvan Fuller
at State House.
1927, November 6 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to St. Paul, MN.
1927, December 3 -Lectures to students at University of Minnesota.
1927, December 19 -Ma Durga sees Master for the first time in
Detroit, MI. Hears the chant O God Beautiful-it changes her
conception of what God really is like-it makes HIM personal.
1927, December 27 -Master addresses annual convention of Hindustan
Association of America, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI.
1928, January 5 -Ma Durga receives the Yogoda Teachings from Br.
Nerode in Detroit, MI. (Br. Nerode was made a Bramachari in 1926.)
1928 - British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928 - English physicist Paul Dirac formulates a mathematical
description of elementary particles.
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, the
first sound cartoon.
1928, January 14 -Master begins two weeks of lectures and classes
during first visit to Miami, FL. (He is run out of Miami)
1928, February -Ma Durga becomes gravely ill and is healed in a dream
by Master. After her healing, Ma becomes fanatical in fasting -from 3
days to 21 days at a time.
1928, April 24 -Master comes to Detroit.
1928, November 11 -Addresses students of Harvard University.
1928, December 20 -Addresses group of 250 medical doctors,
Philadelphia, PA.
1929, January 15 -Addresses Sisterhood of Temple Israel, Boston, MA.
1929, February 5 -Addresses conference on interracial relations at
Free Synagogue in New York City, NY.
1929 - American explorer Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole.
1929, April 1 -Master is a guest of honor at banquet in Cincinnati
with Mne. Sarojini Naidu of India, first woman to become president of
the Indian National Congress.
1929, May 13 -Addresses Inter-Religious Symposium, Washington, DC.
1929, May- Dhirananda betrays Yogananda and leaves Ashram.
Master goes to Mexico to alieve this loss.
1929 August 15 - Master speaks in Guadalajara, Mexico ...guest of
British Vice-Consul.
1929 - October -The Wall Street crash leads to a world-wide economic
depression.
1929, October 24 -Master comes to Detroit, MI and Ma Durga has an
opportunity to touch Him.
1929, November 10 - Master meets with author, Ralph Waldo Trine at
SRF International Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA.
1929, WHISPERS FROM ETERNITY
1929, December -Receives at Mt. Washington renowned opera singer
Amelita Galli-Curci, and her husband Homer Samuels, both devoted
students.
1929, December 17 -Ma Durga moves into Mt. Washington. A few days
shortly thereafter, Master gives Ma her new name: Ma Durga.
Christmas at Mount Washington 1929
1930 June 7 -Master addresses capacity audience at Carnegie Hall, New
York City, NY.
1930, September 12 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to St. Louis, MO.
1931, February 8 -Begins first series of lectures and classes in
Phoenix, AZ.
1931, May -Conducts classes during first visit to Milwaukee, WI.
1931 - Organic chemist W. H. Carothers invents nylon, the first
successful synthetic fiber.
1931 - Radio astronomy begins when Karl Jansky detects radio waves from
space.
1931 - The Star-Spangled Banner becomes the U.S. national anthem.
1931, July 20 -Mrs. C. P. Bissett becomes Sister Gyanamata at Mt.
Washington; Ma Durga also invited to become a Sister, she declines,
asking for a later date.
1931, October 3 -Master begins month-long series of lectures and
classes during first visit to Salt Lake City, UT; meets Faye Wright
(Sri Daya Mata).
1931, November 19 -Sri Daya Mata enters SRF Ashram; Beginning of SRF
Monastic Order.
1931, December 24 -Master conducts first All-Day Christmas
meditation, SRF Mother Center.
1932, January 10 -Begins two months of lectures and classes during
first visit to Kansas City, MO, where he meets Rajarsi Janakananda.
1932 - American physicist Carl D. Anderson discovers the positron.
1932 - English physicist James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
1932 - The first particle accelerator is built at the Cavendish
Laboratory in England.
1932, May -Master relates to Ma Durga that he was William the
Conqueror in a previous incarnation.
1932 Summer Training School at Mount Washington.
1932, August 14 -Master holds banquet for athletes representing India
during Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA.
1932, October 21 -Begins first series of lectures and classes in
Pasadena, CA.
1933 Ordained Ministers of Self Realization Fellowship.
1933, January 3 -Master gives first series of lectures and classes in
Santa Barbara.
1933, February -Conducts three weeks of classes in Hollywood, CA.
1933, METAPHYSICAL MEDITATIONS
1933 May -Mrininalini Mata is born.
Master -changes, through His Divine Love, the course of history that
the world at this point is so desperately heading towards.
1933, May 9 -Master begins month-long series of lectures and classes
in Tacoma, WA.
1933, September 10 -Addresses World Fellowship of Faiths at Chicago
World's Fair.
1933, September 27 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Indianapolis, IN.
1933, November 8 -Begins month-long series of lectures and classes
during first visit to Louisville, KY.
1934, January -Brahmacharee Nerode will henceforth be called Sri
Nerode. Brahmacharinee Nerode, his wife, who is also a Yogoda worker,
will be called Srimati Nerode, and their little son, who has been
initiated to Yogoda, will be known as Sri Anil.
(Master gives them His Housecar; they travel back East, eventually
settling in Miami, FL.)
1934, March 11 -Master begins series of inspirational talks on KECA
radio, Los Angeles, CA.
1934, April 9 -Dedicates spiritual wishing well at SRF Headquarters,
Mt. Washington, CA.
1934, SUMMER -Begin to change name to Self-Realization Fellowship.
The folowing is an example of its advertisements:
1934, August 8 -Uma Mata is born.
1935, January 6 -Master begins series of inspirational talks on KNX
radio, Los Angeles. Master opened the program by playing the harmonium,
Sri Daya Mata the symbols and Ma Durga the Big Drum-every Sunday at
4:15.
1935, March 29 -Officially incorporates his society under the name
Self-Realization Fellowship Church. Master was President; Sister
Gyanamata, the Vice President; Richard Wright, The Secretary; Ma Durga,
the Treasurer. All were on the Board of Directors, plus Karla Schramm.
1935 June 9 -Master departs US for India via Europe, the Holy Land
and Egypt. Sister Gyanamata was left in charge with Ma Durga. Sri Daya
Mata, Ananda Mata and Sailasuta Mata were under Ma Durga's care with
Sister Gyanamata over them all.
1935, June - Master tours England and Scotland.
1935, July 8 -Lectures at Caxton Hall, London.
1935, July -Travels through Europe by car, visiting France, Belgium,
the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece.
1935, July 17 -Visits Catholic Stigmatist Therese Neumann in Germany.
1935, July -Pilgrimage to shrines of St. Francis, Assisi, Italy.
1935, July 24 -Lectures in Rome.
1935, August -Visits birthplace of Jesus Christ and other pilgrimage
sites in Holy Land.
1935, August -Visits Egypt.
1935, August 22 -Arrives in India for last visit with his guru, and
for year of lectures throughout the country.
1935, August 26 -Meets with Mahatma Gandhi, Wardha, India.
1935, August 27 -Initiates Mahatma Gandhi in Kriya Yoga; speaks at
Town Hall in Wardha at Gandhi's request.
1935, August 29 -Welcomed by public reception at Howrah Station,
Calcutta, headed by the Maharaja of Kasimbazar.
1935, October 29 -Guest of His Highness the Yuvaraj of Mysore, India.
1935, October 31 -meets in Mysore with Sir C. V. Raman, Nobel
Laureate in Physics and President of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
1935, November -Conducts lectures and class series in South India as
guest of State of Mysore.
1935, November 4 -Public Lecture at Mysore University, Bangalore,
India.
1935, November 29 -Meets with Ramana Maharshi at his ashram in South
India.
1935, December 22 -Meets with Ananda Moyi Ma, Calcutta, India.
1935, December 25 -Sri Yukteswar bestows India's highest spiritual
title, "Paramahansa," on Sri Yogananda, Serampore, India. Christmas
Day.
1936, January 23 -Participates in Kumbha Mela, Allahabad, India.
1936 - The British Broadcasting Service (BBC) begins the first public
television service.
1936, March 9 -Swami Sri Yukteswar enters mahasamadhi, Puri, India
His body is buried not cremated.
1936, March 28 -Public lecture in Madras, India.
1936, June 8 -Public address in Bombay, India.
1936, June 19 -Sri Yukteswar appears to Paramahansaji in Bombay three
months after his Mahasamadhi.
1936, September -Classes and public lectures in London.
1936, October 23 -Arrives back in America from India.
1936, November 16 -Master returns to Salt Lake City, UT with Richard
Wright and Ettie Bletsch. They are met by Daya Mata, Ananda Mata, Mrs.
Wright (Shyama Mata), Sailasuta Mata, and Ma Durga.
1936, November -Tara Mata comes to Mt. Washington to work with Master
on His books.
1936, December 27 -Master receives Hermitage as gift from Rajasi
Janakananda, Encinitas, CA.
1937 January 26 - Addresses first assembly of World Fellowship of
Faiths at First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, CA.
1937, February 25 -Addresses assembly of World Fellowship of Faiths
at First Methodist Church, Los Angeles, CA.
1937, Tara Mata takes vows of a Monastic.
1938, January 2 -dedication of Golden Lotus Temple, Encinitas, CA.
1938 - Chester Carlson invents xerography, the first electrostatic
dry-copying process.
1938 - German chemist Otto Hahn discovers the principles of nuclear
fission.
1938 - Hitler invades Austria; a union (Anschluss) of Austria and
Germany is proclaimed.
1939, February 26 -Master holds International Peace Program, SRF
Temple, Los Angeles, CA.
1939 - Germany invades Poland, beginning World War II.
1939 - September -Britain and France declare war on Germany but are
unable to aid Poland.
1939 - President Roosevelt (prompted by Einstein) orders a U.S. effort
to build an atomic bomb.
1939 - The first nylon stockings are marketed.
1939, October -YSS Yogoda Math established, Dakshineswar.
1939 - President Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality in World War II.
1939 - The He 176, the first jet airplane, takes to the air in Germany.
1939 - Soviet troops invade Poland; Germany and the USSR partition the
country.
1940 - The Soviet Union annexes the Baltic States of Lithuania, Estonia
and Latvia.
1940 - Winston Churchill becomes British prime minister after
Chamberlain resigns.
1940 - Japan joins the Axis alliance and occupies northern French
Indochina (Vietnam).
1940, Brother Bhaktananda enters Ashram
1941 - Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1941 - Japanese forces capture Hong Kong and invade Malaya and the
Philippines.
1941 - December 7 The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; America enters World
War II.
1942 - Golden Lotus Temple slides into the Pacific Ocean
1942 - Gandhi is arrested after the Quit India movement demands a
British withdrawal.
1942 - Hitler proposes the Final Solution of the Jewish Question; the
Holocaust begins.
1942 - Manhattan Project scientists under Fermi produce the first
controlled chain reaction.
1942, August 30 -Master Dedicates SRF Temple in Hollywood.
1943 - American aircraft join the RAF in round the clock bombing of
Germany.
1943, September 5 -Master dedicates SRF Temple in San Diego, CA.
1943 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at the Tehran Conference.
1943 - Robert Oppenheimer establishes the Los Alamos laboratory to
build the atomic bomb.
1944 - Allied D-Day invasion forces land at Normandy in northern
France.
1944 - The World Bank is established to assist European postwar
recovery.
1945 - Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker; Germany surrenders
to the Allies.
1945 - Roosevelt dies; Harry S. Truman is inaugurated as the 33rd U.S.
president.
1945 - The U.S. drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.
1945 - Japan signs an armistice with the Allies, ending World War II.
1945, June 3 -Master addresses Interracial Conference held in San
Francisco during inaugural meetings of United Nations.
1946, December -Autobiography of a Yogi published.
1946, Brother Bimalananda enters Ashram.
1947, February 14 -Master is honored by the Manuscripters, largest
active writers' group in the west, for most outstanding book of the
month: Autobiography of a Yogi.
1947 - India becomes independent and is divided into the nations of
India and Pakistan.
1947 - The U.S. Marshall Plan for economic recovery in Europe is
established.
1947 - American pilot Kenneth Arnold makes the first alleged sighting
of flying saucers.
1948, Brother Anandamoy enters the Ashram.
1948 - Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.
1948, February 2 -Master conducts memorial service for Mahatma
Gandhi, SRF Temple, Hollywood.
1948, October 3 -Dedicates first SRF Temple in Phoenix.
1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is formed to deter
Soviet aggression.
1949, November 1 -Master greets India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru, San Francisco, CA
1950, January 6 -Guest of honor at banquet of Moslem League, Los
Angeles.
1950, February 1 -Hosts Indian classical dance artist Uday Shankar
and his troupe at SRF International Headquarters, Los Angeles, and at
Ashram Center in Encinitas.
1950, August 13 -Holds first SRF World Convocation, Los Angeles, CA.
1950, August 20 -Dedicates SRF Lake Shrine and Gandhi World Peace
Memorial, Pacific Palisades.
1951, January 6 -Master relates to Ma Durga that He was Arjuna in a
previous incarnation and that Rajasi was one of the twins: Nakula, the
positive one. Krishna was Master's Guru then too and ..."Babaji, being
Krishna, is still my Guru, Sri Yukteswarji was my Guru by proxy for
Babaji."
1951, April 8 -Dedicates India Hall, Hollywood, CA.
1951 - The first successful videotape for recording television images
is demonstrated.
1951, August 25 -Master bestows sannyas on Rajarsi Janakananda and
announces that Rajarsi will be SRF/YSS president after Paramahansaji's
passing.
1951, August 25 -Conducts last formal Kriya Yoga Initiation Ceremony.
1951, November 17 -mahasamadhi of Sri Gyananmata.
1952, March 4 -Receives Ambassador of India B.R. Sen at SRF
Internatrional Headquarters.
1952, March 7 -Paramahansa Yogananda enters mahasamadhi, Los Angeles,
CA.
1952 -Rajarsi Janakananda becomes President of SRF.
1955, February 20 -mahasamadhi of Rajarsi Janakananda.
1955 -Sri Daya Mata becomes President of SRF.
1956 - Rock 'n roll singer Elvis Presley records his first hit
Heartbreak Hotel.
Master's name is changed from Paramhansa to Paramahansa, June 1958,
after visit of Shankacharya of India to SRF Headquarters.
1959 - The Dalai Lama flees to India after China crushes an uprising in
Tibet.
1960 - American physicist Theodore H. Maiman demonstrates the first
successful laser.
1960, April 13 -mahasamadhi of Dr. Lewis.
1962 - The British pop group The Beatles make their first recordings.
1963 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I Have a Dream" speech in
Washington, D.C.
1964 - Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing
championship.
1964 - Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig propose the quark
theory.
1965 - More than 180,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Vietnam by the end
of the year.
1965 - Race riots begin in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
1968 - More than 500,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Vietnam.
1969 - American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the
Moon.
1977 - The first Apple II personal computer is marketed in the U.S.
1977, March 7 -Commemorative stamp issued in Master's honor by
Government of India.
1979 - The first case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is
reported.
1979 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
Dies in Calcutta 1997
1985 - Premier Gorbachev initiates glasnost (openness) and perestroika
(restructuring).
1986 - A major nuclear-reactor disaster takes place at Chernobyl in the
Soviet Union.
1993, January 16 -Ma Durga's mahasamadhi.
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