October 17, 2008
Source: Bahá’à World News Service
http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/659
Baha'is around the world will observe a holy day - the Birth of the Bab - on 20 October.
One of nine holy days on which Baha'is suspend work, the date marks the anniversary of the birth - in 1819 in Shiraz, Iran - of Siyyid 'Ali-Muhammad, known to history as the Bab.
In 1844, the Bab announced that He was the Promised One foretold in the great religions and that His mission was to alert people to the imminent coming of an even greater Divine Messenger, namely Baha'u'llah. Baha'is consider both the Bab and Baha'u'llah to be Messengers of God.