6

Noah Thomas Guymon 88

5

Susan Coons (Killian) 69
George Brinton Matson 80
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 69
Lott Russon 78
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 77
Lucy Ann Clark (Wilson) 82 died

4

Bernard Snow (II) 51
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 47
John Sylvester Perry 55
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 50
Anders Peder Jensen 82
Anne Katrine Nielsen (Jensen) 79 died
Elijah Peck Sr. 57
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 56
Lawson Green Wilson 60
Elmina Green (Wilson) 54

3

William Nephi Lowe 38
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 28
Charles Eben Snow 23
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 26
Martin Peterson 42
Elisha Peck Jr. 36
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 31

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 4
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 1
Harry Chester Peterson 5
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 5

General

Population: 1.72 Billion*

• Entertainment: Art includes Picasso (Les Demoiselles d'Avignon) (start of Cubism), Derain, Henri Rousseau, Chagall, Edvard Munch
  First Cubist exhibition in Paris
  Films include Skating first where titles replace live commentator
  Slow-motion effect invented by August Musger
  Music includes Rimsky-Korsakov, Delius, Paul Cukas, Oskar Straus, Leo Fall, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Gustav Mahler
  Popular songs include Harrigan, Shine On Harvest Moon, On The Road to Mandalay
  Writers include Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorki, Hans Bethge (German translation of Chinese poetry), William James, Strindberg, Jacinto Benavente, Rudyard Kipling
  First daily comic Mr. Mutt, later Mutt and Jeff by Bud Fisher
  Cambridge history of English literature
• Fashion: First mention of "brassiere" in Vogue magazine
• Religion: Papal encyclical condemns modernism
• Science: Ivan Pavlov studies conditioned reflexes
  Harrison develops tissue culture techniques
  Fischer writes about the chemistry of proteins
  Anschutz and Schuler improve the gyrocompass
  Mineral age deduced by radiometric dating by Boltwood
• Sports: Billiards record set for highest break
• Technology: Triode amplifier improves electronics
  Bakelite plastic invented
  First helicopter flights
  Electric washing machine invented
  Lumiere develops process for color photography using three-color screen
• Transportation: SS Lusitania and Mauretania launches – breaks transatlantic record with no 5 days 45 minutes
• Deaths: Lord Kelvin (William Thompson), Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Composer Edward Grieg, Author Sully Prudhomme, Artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Violinist Joseph Joachim,Surgeon Ernst von Bergmann

Africa

• Mozambique: Government of Mozambique organized
• Nyasaland: British renames Central Africa Nyasaland to 1953

Americas

• Bolivia: Butch Cassidy and Sundance reported to be in Bolivia
• Canada: Dominion of Newfoundland established separate from Canada to 1949
• Jamaica: Earthquake
• Nicaratua: US supports revolution
• Panama: Panama Canal started
  Rockslides and strikes shut down work in Panama canal zone

Asia

• China: Sun Yat-sen announces program of his Chinese Democratic Republic
  Famine kills 24 million
  "Open door" agreement in China between France and Japan
• India: Gandhi leads civil disobedience campaign in surrpot of Indian rights
  Plague
• Japan: Gentlemen's Agreement
• Korea: Japan granted protectorate over Korea
  Emperor Kojong of Korea abdicates – succeeded by son Sujong
• Philippines: Philippines move toward independence from the U.S.
  Parliamentary elections in Philippines
• Siam: English and French agree ion Siamese independence
• Sumatra: Dutch complete occupation of Sumatra with defeat of Achinese tribe

Europe

• General: Edward VII visits Tsar Nicholas II
  Agreement between Britain and Russia results in Triple Entente in Europe
  William II of Germany and Nicholas II of Russia meet at Swinemunde
  England signs secret entente with Russia
• Austria: Universal direct suffrage instituted
• France: Cubism movement starts in Paris
• Germany: Prisoner in German jail chews way to freedom through wooden bars in window – 3 months to escape and captured within three weeks
  Herero Wars end
  Carl Hagenbeck opens modern zoo in Hamburg-Stellingen
• Great Britain: Taxis legally recognized in Britain
  William Whiteley founder of London's first department store murdered by blackmailer
  Alain Locke becomes first black recipient of Rhodes Scholarship
  Parliament rejects Channel Tunnel scheme
  Culliman diamond presented to King Edward VII for his birthday
  Edward VII in Rome Paris and Marienbad where he meets with Russian Foreign Minister Izvolski
  British Eugenics Society forms as Eugenic Education Society
  Irish crown jewels disappear
  Baden-Powell founds Boy Scout movement
  United Methodist Church established in Britain
• Italy: urope's greatest earthquake destroys Messina, Sicily, killing 75,000
  Montessori establishes her first preschool in Rome
  Crown Princess Louis of Sachsen divorces on grounds of adultery – marries Italian violinist Enrice Toselli
• Netherlands: Second Hague Conference meets – Germany opposes proposed arms limitation
  Henry Deterding forms Royal Dutch Shell Company
• Russia: Discontent begins to grow
  Second and Third Duma (Durma) (Parliament) in Russia opens spurring 40,000 demonstrators
  Lenin leaves Russia and founds newspaper Proletarian
  Stalin captures 375 k rubles
  Rasputin gains influence at court of Czar Nicholas II
• Spain: Establishment elementary education and freedom of religion
  Cubism started by Picasso
• Sweden: King Oscar II dies – son Gustavus V reigns

Middle East

• General: Russia and Britain agree over Middle East
• Persia: Death of Shah as son Mohammed Ali reigns

Pacific

• Arctic: Robert Peary ventures to North Pole
• New Zealand: Named Dominion of UK

President:

Pres: Theodore Roosevelt

General

• Business: Aunt Jemima model Nancy Green replaced with bandanna-clad new image to 1989
• Entertainment: False union set up for Vaudeville performers by owners
• Finance: Rumors of bank financial problems start Panic of 1907 - Saved by JP Morgan with importation of $100 million in gold from Europe
• Military: Forerunner of US Airforce created Aug 1
• Politics: President's cabinet finally recognized by law
  Japanese immigration to US restricted

East

• General: NY Giants forfeit to Phillies after Giants' fans snowball PA team
• New York: Ziegfeld's first version of "Follies" debuts
• Pennsylvania: Second Sunday in May established in Philadelphia as Mother's Day

Midwest

South

• Oklahoma: Statehood as #46 made from Indian territories

West and Pacific

• California: Plague hits San Francisco
• Utah: Roosevelt City named
  Special vote allows Reed Smoot to take Senate seat - Republicans including President Roosevelt approve Smoot to help keep UT Republican

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 357,913

Temples: 4

Other

• Church purchases Smith farm near Palmyra and Sacred Grove
• President Smith declares Church free of debt
• U.S. Senate agrees to seat Utah Senator Reed Smoot (Quorum of the 12) who was elected 1903 starting 3 year investigation into Church
• Church issues a 16 page summary of Smoot hearings
• European Saints urged not to immigrate to the U.S., but to stay in their countries.
• Senator Kearns fails to receive Church support for campaign and becomes anti-Mormon printer
• In Palmyra, Joseph Smith Sr. Homestead purchased with Sacred Grove
• Mack Farm purchases in VT completed
• Reed Smoot sent to Congress starting a 3 year investigation into the Church
• Roosevelt talks with Mission President while on parade – Mormons get greater respect