6

Noah Thomas Guymon 89

5

Susan Coons (Killian) 70
George Brinton Matson 81
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 70
Lott Russon 79
Eliza Round or Southall (Russon) 78 died

4

Bernard Snow (II) 52
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 48
John Sylvester Perry 56
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 51
Anders Peder Jensen 83
Elijah Peck Sr. 58
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 57
Lawson Green Wilson 61
Elmina Green (Wilson) 55

3

William Nephi Lowe 39
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 29
Charles Eben Snow 24
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 27
Martin Peterson 43
Elisha Peck Jr. 37
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 32

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 5
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 2
Harry Chester Peterson 6
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 6

General

Population: 1.73 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Gertrude Stein, GK Chesterton, Colette, EM Forster (Room with a View), Kenneth Grahame (Wind in the Willows), Lucy M Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Schnitzler, F Meinecke, G Sorel, Graham Wallas, Karl Liebknecht
  Music includes Ravel, Bartók, Oskar Strauss, Leo Fall, Elgar
  Top songs include Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  Art includes Marc Chagall, Maurice de Vlaminck, Augustus John, Kokoschka, Monet, Maurice Utrillo begins White Period, Artist Jacob Epstein's Figures cause general indignation in London
  New realism with the Ashcan School with Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Glackens, George Bellows, Everett Shinn
  First steel and glass building – Berlin
  Mattisse coins term Cubism
  Film Last Days of Pompeii
  11-year-old WE Korngold writes start of first ballet
  Isadora Duncan becomes popular interpreter of dance
  Tiller Girls appear on London stage for first time
• Exploration: Sven Gedin explores Persia and Tibet
• Science: Minkowski formulates four-dimensional geometry
  Haber synthesizes ammonia
  Bakelite invented by Baekeland in US
  Indian one-horned rhino population falls to population of 12
  Mummified dinosaur discovered with skin and flesh fossilized
  Hauser finds body of Neanderthal youth but find is dismissed because he keeps reburying and rediscovering it
  Onnes liquefies helium
  Thomos Hunt Morgan works on drosophila – Curt Stern Calvin Bridges, Art. Sturdevand, and Herman Muller work under him (Morgan – Stern – Jeffery – Me)
• Sports: Jack Johnson becomes first black world heavyweight boxing champion
  New baseball regulation rules the spitball illegal
• Technology: Model T produced by Ford - start of assembly lines
  Plako "Zipper" invented by Sundback
• Transportation: Amalthea ship explodes
• Deaths: Dramatist VIctorien Sardou, Educator Daniel Colt Gilman, Painter WIlhelm Busch, Philosopher Edward Caird, Grover Cleveland, Musician James Rider Randall, Evangelist Ira D. Sankey, Poet François Coppee, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel, Novelist Ouida, Violinist Sarasate

Africa

• Congo Free State: (Zaire) Belgium given control - annexed from Leopold II's private ownership to 1960
  Renamed Belgian Congo
• Egypt: Cairu U opened
• German South-West: End of Hereros and Hottentots revolt
• Morocco: Abdul Hafid proclaimed Sultan of Morocco – defeats enemy Abdul Aziz at Marrakesh
• South Africa: Union of South Africa established

Americas

• Canada: First sighting of Manipogo the Lake Manitoba Monster
• Peru: Leguia becomes president
• Venezuela: Gómez serves as dictator

Asia

• China: Death of Chinese dowager empress Cixi (Tzu-His) of the Guangxu - to the relief of the Chinese
  Qing dynasty changes emperors
  Plague
• India: End of plague outbreak
• Indonesia: Dutch establish rule in Bali
  Kelut erupts

Europe

• General: Triple Entente signed by Britain, France and Russia
  Edward VII and Nicholas II meet at Reval
  Aehrenthal the Austrian Foreign Minister and Izvolski the Russian Foreign Minister agree on Austria's occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Austria-Hungary: Annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Bosnia: Young Turk Nationalist revolution leads to Serb protest
• Bulgaria: Ferdinand I proclaimed emperor - declares independence from Ottomans
• Crete: Union with Greece declared to the surprise of Greece
• France: First long-distance radio broadcast from Eiffel Tower
• Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm gives infamous interview in The Daily Telegraph where he offends basically the whole of Europe
  Zeppelin disaster near Echterdingen
• Great Britain: Old Age Pension Scheme established
  Children's Act creates separate court systen
  Port of London Authority established
  Herbert Henry Asquith becomes Prime Minister
  Fourth Olympic Games held in London
  Lord Northcliffe buys The Times in London
  WH Savens of Princeton becomes first American to play cricket for Gentlemen of England
  Boy Scouts founded by Robert Baden-Powell
  Culliman diamond split for royal jewelry
• Italy: Earthquake in Messina, Sicily kills 72-160,000 with following tsunami
• Portugal: Carlos I and Prince Luis assassinated and Manuel II becomes king
• Russia: Serbia appeals to Russia for help with Young Turk revolution - Russia fails to respond because of Japanese-Russian war
  Tunguska meteor in Siberia levels 2150 square kilometers

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Turkish reforms come with Young Turk revolution - revolt at Resina in Macedonia against Sultan Abdul Hamid II
• Palestine: Zionist colony
• Persia: British hit oil
  Counter-revolution supported by Russia

Pacific

• Arctic: Cooke, Peary arrive at N Pole - see 1909
• Australia: Parliament passes Pensions Act introducing general Customs Tariff Act

President:

Pres: Theodore Roosevelt
Pres: William H. Taft elected over William Jennings Bryan and Socialist Eugene V. Debs

General

• Business: Court rules on Danbury Hatters against unions
  Converse shoe company founded
  Model T Ford introduced
  General Motors Corporation formed
• Entertainment: Muckrakers continue to publish and Following the Color Line published
  Julia Ward Howe elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Environment: White House held Conservation Conference
• Government: FBI created,
• Military: First aircraft purchased by US Army
• Politics: Japanese immigration to US outlawed
  A.L. of L. throws support entirely behind Democrats painting Republicans as the party of privileges
• Sports: London Olympics – Americans dominate

East

• New York: First Times Square ball drop

Midwest

South

• Virginia: Staunton creates city manager form of government

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Grand Canyon made national park

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 371,472

Temples: 4

Other

• Bishop Charles Nibley changes tithing to all-cash basis
• First Presidency creates General Priesthood Committee on Outlines, formalizing ages for which young men are elligible for Priesthood offices