5

Susan Coons (Killian) 74
George Brinton Matson 85 died
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 74 died
Lott Russon 83

4

Bernard Snow (II) 56
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 52
John Sylvester Perry 60
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 55
Anders Peder Jensen 87
Elijah Peck Sr. 62
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 61
Lawson Green Wilson 65
Elmina Green (Wilson) 59 died

3

William Nephi Lowe 43
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 33
Charles Eben Snow 28
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 31
Martin Peterson 47
Elisha Peck Jr. 41
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 36

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 9
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 6
Harry Chester Peterson 10
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 10

General

Population: 1.78 Billion*

• Business: FW Woolworth Company founded
• Entertainment: Film includes first feature-length motion picture Queen Elizabeth (with Sarah Bernhardt), also Quo Vadis, War and Peace, Dance of Death
  Art includes Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, Marc Chagall, Picasso, Modigliani (sculpt)
  Music includes Ravel, Delius, Schonberg, Richard Strauss, Franz Schreker, Rudolf Friml
  Top songs include When Irish Eyes are Smiling, Frankie and Johnny, Scott Joplin's New Rag, It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, The Memphis Blues, The Rose of Tralee, My Melancholy Baby, Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!
  First published blues song goes on sale – W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues
  Writers include Thomas Mann's
• Death in Venice
, Gerhart Hauptmann, Compton Mackenzie, Rebindranath Tagore, Paul Claudel, Arthur Schnitzler, CG Jung, F Oppenheimer, Amy Lowell
• Politics: Renewal of alliance between England and Japan
• Science: Jung publishes Psychology of the Unconscious
  Wegener proposes continental drift and proposes Pangaea
  Funk coins term vitamine
  Wilson's cloud-chamber photographs lead to detection of protons and electrons
  Debye propounds theory of specific heat of solids
  Hess discovers cosmic radiation
  Paul Ehrlich introduces acriflavine as antiseptic
  Remains of Piltdown Man found near Lewes England- later proved hoax in 1953
• Sports: International Lawn Tennis Federation formed
  Jim Thorpe named outstanding Olympic sportsman but records and awards stripped when discovered that he played semi-professional baseball
• Technology: Bradenberger invents a process for manufacturing cellophane
  First successful parachute jump
• Transportation: Titanic sinks
• Deaths: Clara Barton, Salvation Army founded William Booth, Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Bram Stoker, Explorer RF Scott, Mathematician Henri Poincare, Author Karl May, Shakespearian H.H. Furness, Surgeon Joseph Lister, English wit Henry Labouchere, Designer Paul Wallot, Composer Jules Massenet

Africa

• Abyssinia: Italy begins to influence rule
• Liberia: New loans to Liberia coupled with US control over customs
• Libya: Italy conquers
  Italy annexes Tripolitania and Cyrenacia
• Morocco: French makes Morocco a protectorate at Treaty of Fez - Spanish zone defined
• South Africa: African National Congress founded

Americas

• Argentina: Secret ballot and universal suffrage
• Canada: V Stegansson and R Anderson explore Arctic Canada
• Cuba: US Marines invade
• Jamaica: Hurricane
• Nicaragua: US sends Marines

Asia

• China: Yuan Shikai president as last Chinese (Manchu) dynasty (ends)
  Sun Yat-sen founds Kuomintang (Chinese National Party)
  Chinese republic established and Sun Yat-sen first president (but warlords gain power) as Manchu dynasty ends
• India: Viceroy of India wounded by terrorist bomb
• Indonesia: Mt. Kelut erupts killing over 5000
• Japan: End Meiji period - Taisho period begins
  First dreadnought battleship built
  Death of Mutsuhito as Yoshihito rules
• Taiwan: Cyclone

Europe

• General: Balkan League and Turkey starts Balkan Wars - Serbia/Montenegro
  Treaty of Lausanne signed between Italy and France
  German-Austria-Italian alliance renewed
  Treaty of Ouchy ends Italo-Turkish war
  Britain and France agree on naval strategy
• Albania: Independence from Ottomans
• Bulgaria: Balkan War
• Denmark: Death of King Frederick VIII of Denmark – Christian X rules
• France: Poincare becomes Premier
  Franz Reichelt the tailor falls to death off Eiffel Tower while testing parachute with dummy
• Germany: Claims to have 30,000 millionaires
• Great Britain: Ireland divided by Britain
  Third Irish Home Rule Bill introduced
  Titanic sinks killing 1,513
  Church of Scotland revises prayer book
  London 400 cinemas
  Peter Pan statue erected in London
  GPO takes over British telephone systems
  National Insurance Act passes spurred on by Socialists
  Britain develops RFC (Royal Flying Corps)
  Coal strike – London dock strike and transport workers' strike
  First flight by woman across English Channel
• Russia: Lenin establishes connection with Stalin and takes over Pravda news
  Fourth Russian Duma to 1916
• Sweden: Olympic Games held in Stockholm

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: (Turkey) Italian-Turkish war ends with Treaty of Ouchy – Italy gains Tripoli (Libya)
  First Balkan War – Bulgaria Greece Serbia and Montenegro against Turkey
  Khios independence from Ottomans
  Turkey closes Dardanelles to shipping
  Italians use airships in Turkey
• Persia: Tewfik Pasha becomes Grand Vizier

Pacific

• Antarctica: Scott arrives at South Pole
  Amundsen reaches S Pole,

President:

Pres: William H. Taft
Pres: Woodrow Wilson elected when Republican vote split between Taft and Roosevelt (Progressive)

General

• Business: Cabin Creek/Paint Creek Mining war
• Education: John F. Bobbit publishes Elimination of Waste in Education to mechanize schools
• Entertainment: US cinemas have 5 million people visiting daily
  Radio Act assigns 3+4 letter codes to radio stations
• Military: U.S. sends marines to Nicaragua because of their failure to pay loans
• Politics: Progressive party formed as alternate to Republicans - Roosevelt runs
  Wilson becomes minority president as Republicans split
  Socialists win elections in many states
• Sports: American Indian Jim Thorpe star of Stockholm Olympics
  George Patton competes in Olympics – later General
• States: New Mexico named #47 and Arizona #48

East

• Massachusetts: Minimum wage law passed
  Textile workers strike in Lawrence MA showing power of IWW
• Pennsylvania: Leopold Stokowski named conductor of Philadelphia Symphony

Midwest

• Illinois: Poetry magazine founded in Chicago
• Missouri: 25 inches of snow in 24 hours in Kansas City

South

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 20th Century's biggest eruption in Katmai - Aleutians (Novarupta)
  Alaska becomes US territory
• Arizona: Statehood
• New Mexico: Statehood
• Utah: First traffic light invented in Salt Lake
  Taft wins in Utah as Senator Smoot shows support

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 417,555

Temples: 4

Other

• Church colonists in Mexico leave due to revolution
• Seminary begins at Granite High
• Church phases out Church academy program
• Correlation and Social Advisory committees formed
• Saints encouraged to be free to make up own political minds, although widely known that Pres. Smith supports Taft