6

Noah Thomas Guymon 82

5

Henry Dill Gifford 76 died
Almira Ann Braffett (Gifford) 72
Jacob Killian 73 died
Susan Coons (Killian) 63
George Brinton Matson 74
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 63
Lott Russon 72
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 71
George Wilson 76
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 76

4

Joseph Jasper Powell 67
Bernard Snow (II) 45
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 41
John Sylvester Perry 49
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 44
Anders Peder Jensen 76
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 73
Elijah Peck Sr. 51
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 50
Lawson Green Wilson 54
Elmina Green (Wilson) 48

3

William Nephi Lowe 32
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 22
Charles Eben Snow 17
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 20
Martin Peterson 36
Nicoline (Lena) Jensen 40
Elisha Peck Jr. 30
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 25

General

Population: 1.66 Billion*

• Culture: Nobel Peace Prize first given
• Entertainment: Music includes Mahler, Schoenberg, Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, Dvorak, Stanford, Elgar, Ravel, Bruckner's symphony performed posthumously
  Tenor Leo Slezak joins Vienna Opera
  Ragtime jazz develops in US
  Popular songs include Yale Boola!, American Patrol, Rachmaninoff's Concerto for Piano #2
  Writers include Shaw, Samuel Butler, Hall Caine, Kipling, Selma Lagerlof, Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), Strindberg, Louis Couperus, Wilhelm Meyer-Forster, Charles Louis Philippe, Frenk Wedekind, Stefan Zweig, JM Barrie, Frank Norris (The Octopus), BS Rowntree, James Bryce
  Film includes The Little Doctor
  Art includes Gaugin, Edvard Munch, Feradin and Holder paint "Spring", Mac Lieberman, Picasso's Blue Period,
  Rudolph Steyner founds anthroposophy
• Politics: Negotiations for Anglo-Japanese alliance in London
• Science: Planck develops quantum theory
  Landsteiner identifies three blood types
  Planck publishes laws of radiation
  Hormone adrenalin first isolated
  Nernst postulates "third law of thermodynamics"
• Technology: Start of "Century of electricity" following the "century of steam"
  First wireless transatlantic radio signal by Marconi
  Gilette invents safety razor
  Carrier invents industrial air conditioning
• Transportation: First motor driven bicycles
• Deaths: Giuseppe Verdi, Author Charlotte M Yonge, Bacon v. Shakespeare proponent Ignatius Donnelly, Physicist Rodolphe Koenig, Explorer Nils AE Nordenskjold, Benjamin Harrison, Novelist Sir Walter Besant, Humorist Orpheus C. Kerr, General Osman Pasha, Playwright james A Herne, Poet Robert Buchanan, William McKinley, Theater manager Richart D'Oyly Carte, Queen Victoria, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec age 37

Africa

• General: Mombasa to Lake Victoria rail completed
  Pan-African Conference held in London
• Egypt: Plague
• Transvaal: Boers begin organized Guerilla warfare – negotiations between Kitchener and Botha at Middleburg on amnesty of Cape rebels
• West Africa: Britain annexes Asante

Americas

• General: Pan-American conference meets
• Colombia: Panama declares independence
• Cuba: Congress turns Cuba over to Cubans - US protectorate
• Mexico: Cruzob reannexed - see 1856
  Chan Santa Cruz (part of Quintana Roo / Yucatán) conquered
• Panama: Britain gets out of Canal Zone and turns land over to US under Hay-Pauncefort Treaty

Asia

• General: Prince Ito of Japan in St. Petersburg seeking concessions in Korea – negotiations end without agreement
• China: End of Boxer Rebellion with Peace of Peking
  International Protocol imposed on China
• Hong Kong: Plague
• India: Rabindranath Tagore founds Santiniketan school in Bengal
• Manchuria: Russian agents enter south
• Philippines: Filipino leader Emileo Aguinaldo is captured and civil government established

Europe

• General: Negotiations for Anglo-German alliance end without agreement
• France: Separation of the church and state begins 4 year run
• Germany: Cabaret "Uberbretti" founded in Berlin
  Siegesallee in Berlin – 32 marble statues of members of the House of Hohenzollernn
  Wilhelm Maybach technical director at the Daimler works constructs first Mercedes car
• Great Britain: Queen Victoria dies and Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) rules to 1910
  Wigmore Hall in London opens
  Boxing recognized as legal sport in England
  First British submarine launched
• Russia: Bolshevik party starts (Russian Social Revolutionary Party)
  Trans-Siberian Railroad reaches Port Arthur China
  Terrorist activities increase in Russia
• Sweden: Nordic Games (forerunner of Winter Olympics) held

Middle East

• Palestine: Fifth Zionist Congress begins Jewish National Fund
• Persia: Oil drilling started

Pacific

• Australia: Dominion status granted - Commonwealth formed
  Edmund Barton inaugurated as first Prime Minister
• Tonga: Britain gains control over Tonga's foreign relations

President:

Pres: William McKinley (assassinated)
Pres: Theodore Roosevelt

General

• Business: US Steel Corporation created becoming becomes first billion-dollar company
  JP Morgan organizes US Steel
  Booker T. Washington organizes national Negro Business League
• Crime: President McKinley assassinated Sep 6 by Leon Czolgosz and died 8 days later
  End of most fearsome time of Wild Bunch of Butch Cassidy and Sundance
• Environment: Roosevelt warns that forest and water problems are most vital
• Law: Supreme Court separates U.S. territories from incorporated possessions - eventually leading to AK and HI statehood
• Politics: WH Taft becomes Governor-General of Philippines

East

Midwest

• Illinois: First American Bowling Club tournament held in Chicago

South

• Alabama: F3 tornado hits Birmingham

West and Pacific

• California: 6.4 Quake

President

Pres: Lorenzo Snow
Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 292,931

Temples: 4

Other

• Reconstruction of Tabernacle Organ
• Japan dedicated for missionary work by Elder Heber J. Grant
• McKinley stops in depot of Ogden
• George Albert Smith hears the shot that killed McKinley
• George Albert Smith meets with T. Roosevelt in New York
• President Snow issues Greeting to the World
• Mexico mission reopens
• Church emphasis moves to local and stake levels, 12 and 70 released from all local callings
• President Joseph F Smith gives Elder Reed Smoot permission to run for senate
• Information booth created at Temple Square