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1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures is released in English, on August 2, at convention in New York.

1953 An extensive program of training of Jehovah’s Witnesses in house-to-house preaching gets under way, September 1.

1957 In 169 lands, 100,135,016 hours are devoted by Jehovah’s Witnesses to proclaiming God’s Kingdom and conducting Bible studies with newly interested persons.

1958 Divine Will International Assembly, in New York, draws attendance of 253,922 from 123 lands; 7,136 baptized.

1959 First sessions of Kingdom Ministry School, starting March 9, at South Lansing, New York, designed for congregation overseers and traveling overseers.

1961 First group of the Society’s branch overseers attends special ten-month training course at Brooklyn, New York, with a view to further unification of the work of Jehovah’s Witnesses worldwide. New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, the complete Bible in one volume, is released in English.

1963 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures is released in six more languages (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish), with more to come in later years. Over a million of Jehovah’s Witnesses are now active in 198 lands; peak of publishers for the year is 1,040,836; 62,798 more baptized.

1965 First Assembly Hall, a renovated theater, is put to use by Jehovah’s Witnesses in New York.

1967 Waves of prolonged and savage persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses sweep across Malawi and continue for years thereafter.

1969 Home Bible studies exceed a million; report shows average of 1,097,237.

1971 Governing Body is enlarged; on October 1, chairmanship begins to rotate among its members on an annual basis.

1972 Congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses come under local supervision of body of elders, instead of one person, as of October 1.

1974 Peak publishers worldwide reach 2,021,432; pioneers increase from 94,604, in 1973, to 127,135.

1975 Governing Body is reorganized; on December 4, responsibility for much of the work is assigned to six committees, which begin to function on January 1, 1976.

1976 Branch offices of Watch Tower Society each come under supervision of a committee of three or more spiritually mature men, instead of one overseer, as of February 1.

1977 Pioneer Service School begins to provide specialized training for tens of thousands of pioneers worldwide.

1984 Home Bible studies being conducted by Jehovah’s Witnesses now average 2,047,113.

1985 Arrangement for international volunteers is initiated, coordinating from headquarters the Society’s worldwide construction work.

1986 Regional Building Committees appointed to help coordinate building of Kingdom Halls.

1987 Disciple-making work continues to expand, as Bible studies are now being conducted with 3,005,048 individuals and family groups, many on a weekly basis; baptisms for the year total 230,843. Ministerial Training School goes into operation on October 1, with first class at Coraopolis, Pennsylvania

1989 Changing conditions in Eastern Europe help to make possible three large international conventions in Poland, and then in other lands in following years.

1990 Lifting of restrictions on Jehovah’s Witnesses in lands in Africa and Eastern Europe facilitate evangelizing among an additional 100,000,000 people. Kingdom publishers reach new peak of 4,017,213; pioneer ranks swell to 536,508; total of 895,229,424 hours are devoted to urgent work of Kingdom proclamation.

1991 Bans lifted in Eastern Europe and Africa make it easier to reach 390,000,000 more people with the good news of God’s Kingdom.

1992 Watchtower has average printing of 15,570,000 in 111 languages; Awake!, available in 67 languages, has an average production of 13,110,000.

66 ce In the year 66 CE. Roman armies under General Cestius Gallus surrounded Jerusalem and even attacked the temple wall, undermining it.

7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. The cardinal number that is the sum of six and one. It is the only prime number preceding a cube.

70 ce In 70 CE Roman armies under General Titus came back into Judea and encircled Jerusalem. After a short siege of four months and twenty-five days, the armies of Rome demolished the city and the temple. That “great tribulation” in 70 CE was the most terrible calamity that ever came upon Jerusalem.

8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and seven and the product of two and four.

9 (nine) is the natural number following 8 and preceding 10. The cardinal number that is the sum of one and eight.

10 (ten) is the even natural number following 0 and preceding 11. It is the first double-digit number. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language.

2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. or one. 1. The cardinal number one, a single thing or unit. 2. A digit in decimal and every other base numbering system, including binary, octal, and hexadecimal.

3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number.

33 ce In Pentecost 33 C.E. about 120 of Jesus’ disciples were together when “they all became filled with holy spirit and started to speak in different languages.” (Acts 1:15; 2:1-4) A large crowd of people “from every nation… ” heard them speaking in his own language.”—Acts 2:5, 6.

4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number.

5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has garnered attention throughout history in part because distal extremities in humanstypically contain five digits,

6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.

607 bce witnessed the victory of the ancient capital of false religion over the capital city that had Jehovah’s temple in it but that had corrupted the pure religion that He had committed to it. For this reason ancient Jerusalem pictures modern-day Christendom.

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