During the period of the Nine Year Plan a number of
important and interesting events, not directly associated with it, have taken
place. First and foremost was the commemoration, in the precincts of the Qiblih
of the Bahá'í world, of the centenary of the arrival at the prison city of
'Akká, as foretold in former Scriptures, of the Promised One of all ages.
(The
Universal House of Justice, from Ridvan
1973 message; Messages from the Universal House of Justice,
1968-1973)