6

Noah Thomas Guymon 91

5

Susan Coons (Killian) 72
George Brinton Matson 83
Mary Jane Guymon (Matson) 72
Lott Russon 81

4

Bernard Snow (II) 54
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 50
John Sylvester Perry 58
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 53
Anders Peder Jensen 85
Elijah Peck Sr. 60
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 59
Lawson Green Wilson 63
Elmina Green (Wilson) 57

3

William Nephi Lowe 41
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 31
Charles Eben Snow 26
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 29
Martin Peterson 45
Elisha Peck Jr. 39
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 34

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 7
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 4
Harry Chester Peterson 8
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 8

General

Population: 1.75 Billion*

• Entertainment: Newsreels begin
  Frank Lloyd Wright becomes well known in Europe
  S American tango gains popularity in Europe and US
  Motion picture cartoons created using cel system
  Kandinsky adopts abstract style in painting
  Music includes Ravel, Bartók, Stravinsky (The Firebird), Debussy, Elgar, Puccini, R Vaughan Williams, Alban Berg, Busoni, Jean Gilbert, Massenet, Franz Lehar, Victer Herbert – operetta
  Top songs include America the Beautiful, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, Topsy Song
  Films include Child of the Ghetto, Messaline, Lucrezia Borgia, Hamlet, Peter the Great
  Art includes Fernand Leger, Amedeo Modigliani, Gaston Lachaise, John Marin, Joseph Stella, Max Weber, Robert Delaunay, Oskar Kokoschika
  Writers include Bertrand Russell (Principia mathematica), Arnold Bennett, Paul Claudel, EM Forster (Howard's End), HG Wells, John Galsworthy, Irving Fisher, Sir Norman Angell
• Science: Discovery of protons and electrons
  Halley's Comet returns
  JJ Thomson's work on deflection of positive rays in magnetic field
  Marie Curie writes treatise on radiography
  Murray and Hjort undertake first deep-sea expedition
• Technology: Jet engine developed
  TNT developed - Nobel
  First sea plane created by Fabre
• Transportation: Farman flies about 300 miles in 8 hours 15 min
  First scheduled airline using lighter-than-air craft (Zeppelin)
• Deaths: Florence Nightingale, Poet Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Philosopher William James, Mary Baker Eddy of Christian Science, American suffragist Julia Ward Howe, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Leo Tolstoi, Winslow Homer, Artist John La Farge, Julia Ward Howe, Painter William Holman Hunt, Red Cross Jean Henri Dunant, Sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward, Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli,Composer and founder of Great Five Mily Balakirev, Edward VII son of Queen Victoria, Dr. Robert Koch, Henri Rousseau, Cartoonist EL Sambourne

Africa

• Egypt: Premier Butros Ghali assassinated
• French Equatorial Africa: Federation forms consisting of Gabon, Middle Congo, Chad, and Ubangi-Shari to 1960
• South Africa: British creates the Union of South Africa from Afrikaner republics (Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State) and Cape Colony
  Botha serves as premier

Americas

• Mexico: Mexican Revolution begins - forces under Francisco Madero oppose dictatorship of Porfiro Diaz
  Over a million will die in revolution

Asia

• China: Plague
  Slavery abolished
• India: Plague
• Korea: Japan annexes Korea (a protectorate since 1905) until 1945 - end of Empire
• Manchuria: Pneumonic Plague - see Russia
• Thailand: End of reign of Rama V after 42 years

Europe

• Albania: Revolt
• France: Socialists gain over 100 seats in Chamber of Deputies
  Public executions protested
• Germany: Hypnotist Johannes Schultz discovered that patients self-hypnotizing to believe their hands were warm, their hands got warmer
• Great Britain: Constitutional Crisis caused by conflict between House of Commons and House of Lords (Eng)
  King Edward VII dies, George V becomes king (son) - House of Windsor
  British suffragettes adopt violent tactics
  Girl Guides founded in Britain
  Dr. Hawley Crippen accused of brutal murder of wife – DNA evidence nearly a century later show he was innocemt – London – first use of Forensic evidence
  Fry arranges Post-Impressionist Expo in London
  Thomas Beecham's first opera season at Covent garden in London
  First labour exchanges open
• Greece: Benizelos named Premier
  Arthur Evans completes excavation of Cnossus Crete
• Monaco: Prince Albert I founds Institute for Oceanography
• Montenegro: Proclaimed kingdom under Nicholas I
• Portugal: End of civil strife when monarchy is overthrown and republic proclaimed - minor strife until 1914
  Republic proclaimed after revolution
• Russia: Marmot skin demand causes trappers to hunt in Siberia – Mongols wouldn't touch the dead marmots, but Chinese trappers die and plague spread killing tens of thousands

Middle East

• Ottoman Empire: Albanians revolt

Pacific

• Australia: Labour party under Andrew Fisher wins

President:

Pres: William H. Taft

General

• Business: Rockerfeller retires to become a philanthropist
  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace established
• Crime: The McNamaras arrested for bombing
• Culture: Boy Scouts of America started
  NAACP begins Crisis magazine
• Entertainment: Paul Bunyan
  Annie Oakley rejoins Wild West Shows age 50 – crowds small due to movies
• Law: Congress passes Mann-Elkins Act puts telephone, telegraph, and communication lines under Federal control
  Mann Act prohibits transportation of women across state lines for immoral purposes
  Freedom of Contract by Supreme Court bans limits on workweeks - "weekend" becomes popular
• Medicine: "Typhoid Mary" Mallon released
• Politics: US Postal Savings program established
• Population: 92 million
• Sports: Black boxer Jack Johnson defeats white – race riots result

East

• New York: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory strike – one year before fire
  Manhattan Bridge completed
  Eugenics Office established at Cold Spring Harbor on Long island
  Worker Compensation plan passed
  Lee Deforest broadcasts operas from Met in New York

Midwest

South

• Florida: Speed record – 133 mph by Barney Oldfield at Daytona Beach

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Buffalo Bill buys mine – fails
• California: Angel Island immigration center opens in San Francisco
• Idaho: Fires blow smoke into Pacific
• Montana: Glacier National Park created
  Fires blow smoke into Pacific
• Washington: Avalanche in Wellington (Cascade mountains) kills 96
  Father's Day first celebrated in Spokane

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 398,478

Temples: 4

Other

• Bishop's Building opened (closed during 60s)
• Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine published (discontinued 1940)
• Sister Emmeline B Wells the former president of International Council of Women becomes Relief Society President
• Violence escalates against the Church in Britain
• Taft appoints J Reuben Clark as member of Department of State