5

Susan Coons (Killian) 77
Lott Russon 86

4

Bernard Snow (II) 59
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 55 died
John Sylvester Perry 63
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 58
Anders Peder Jensen 90
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 64
Lawson Green Wilson 68

3

William Nephi Lowe 46
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 36
Charles Eben Snow 31
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 34
Martin Peterson 50
Elisha Peck Jr. 44
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 39

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 12
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 9
Harry Chester Peterson 13
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 13

General

Population: 1.82 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Van Wyck, Paul Claudel, DH Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Hermann Hesse, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, Spoon River Anthology, Novello writes Keep the Home Fires Burning, DH Lawrence publishes The Rainbow declared obscene and destroyed
  Music includes Debussy, Bartó, Max Reger, Kalman, Max von Schillings, Richard Strauss, Morton's Jelly Roll Blues, Classic New Orleans Jazz in bloom
  Popular songs include Fascination, Joe Turner Blues, Alabam Jubilee, There's A Broken Heart for Every Light On Broadway, A Little Bit of Heaven, I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
  Films include Birth of a Nation, Carmen (Cecil B De Mille), The Lamb (Doublas Fairbanks), The Fire
  Arts include Raoul Dufy, Chagall,first Dada-style paintings by Marcel Duchamp
• Medicine: Kendall isolated dysentery bacillus
  Tetanus epidemics in the trenches
• Military: S.S. Lusitania a passenger ship, sunk by German sub off of Ireland - killing 1,200 including 128 Americans
• Religion: Wlodimierz Haika von Ledochowski becomes general of the Jesuits
• Science: Gene theory proposed
  Wegener proposes Continental Drift Theory
  Bridges identifies mutant fruit fly strains
  Einstein postulates General Theory of Relativity
  Nobel Prize for Physics WH and WL Bragg (father and son)
  Cantor develops theory of transfinite numbers
  Thorburn publishes British Birds
• Technology: Motion picture projectors invented
  Junkers constructs first fighter airplane
  Sonar first developed to detect submarines
  Henry Ford develops farm tractor
  First transcontinental phone call between Alexander Graham Bell and Dr. Thomas A Watson
  Wireless service established between US and Japan
  Ford produces millionth car
• Deaths: Chemist Henry E Roscoe, Novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Painter Anton von Werner, Reformer Anthony Comstock, Biochemist Paul Erlich, Composer Alexander Scriabin, Writer JE Glecker, Poet Rupert Brooke, Composer Emil Waldteufel, Cricket player WG Grace

Africa

• Cameroon: German colony (Kamerun) falls to Britain and France
• German South-West Africa (later Namibia) ends being under German rule
• South Africa: South Africa occupies German colony of South-West Africa until 1922

Americas

• Canada: The Royal Edward Canadian ship sunk by Germans killing 1386
• Chile: Sanfuentes serves as president
• Mexico: US decides to back Carranza as president of Mexico and Porfiro Diaz is outraged
• Peru: Pardo serves as president

Asia

• China: Flooding in Canton kills 100,000
  Rebellion of Manchus lasts one year
• India: Gandhi stages protest against British

Europe

• General: WWI – Britain starts naval blockade of Germany and Germany starts submarine blockade of Britain
  Period of avalanches in Austria and Italy that kill 40,000 - 80,000 soldiers in 4 years
  Second Battle of Ypres and first use of poisoned gas
  Gallipoli Campaign – Joint British and French fleet tries to force way through Dardanelles
• Belgium: Execution of Edith Cavell in Brussels
• Bulgary: Alliance with Austria-Hungary
• France: Allied attack in French regions of Artois and Champagne
  Joffre becomes French Commander-in-Chief
  Remains of Touget de Lisle the composer of La Marseillaise brought to Paris
• Germany: WWI
  Germans infect livestock with glanders and anthrax and send them to neutral nations
  First German submarine attack
  Germans pioneer use of poisonous gas in warfare
  Largest railroad station in Europe established in Leipzig
• Great Britain: First automatic talephone exchange
  British use poison gas at Battle of Loos – stalemate
  Rupert Brooke's poems published after dies on way to fight at Dardanelles
  German submarine sinks British Lusitania killing 1153 including Americans
  Second battle of Ypres (Bel/Fra?) Germans use poison gas for first time
  German zeppelins over England
  British use gas, but wind shifts
  Haig becomes British commander
  Lord Beaverborrk buys London's Daily Express
  German airship bombs E Anglian ports – cruiser Blucher is sunk at Dogger Bank
  Britain's merchant shipping losses during the war amount to over a million tons
• Italy: Joining of war effort against Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Turks
  Earthquake
• Poland: Germans in Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk
• Russia: German forces invade
  Economic turmoil
  Tsar Nicholas takes command of Russian armies
• Serbia: Austria-Hungary invades
  Typhus outbreak

Middle East

• General: Battles of Isonzo - 1-4
• Mesopotamia: Allied army advances and surrenders to British
• Ottoman Empire: Allies attempt to pass through Dardanelles to take Ottoman empire
  Gallipoli expedition fails to remove Turkey from war, though Australia and New Zealand contribute
  Turks massacre one million Armenians in genocide

Pacific

• General: Gilbert and Ellice Islands annexed by Britain
• Australia: Troops in WWI
• New Zealand: Troops in WWI

President:

Pres: Woodrow Wilson

General

• Culture: Margaret Sanger jailed for writing Family Limitation book on birth control
  Approximate beginnings of black migration – spurred on by WWI
  DW Griffith releases The Clansman later Birth of a Nation
• Education: John Dewey publishes Schools of Tomorrow for management of students
• Entertainment: Washington Square Players – Neighborhood Players and Provincetown players established
• Law: Grandfather Clauses declared unconstitutional
• Military: S.S. Lusitania a passenger ship sunk - killing 1,200 including 128 Americans
  US Coast Guard established
• Politics: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics formed
  US decides to back current President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico
  President Wilson marries Mrs. Edith Galt
• Sports: Jess Willard defeats Jack Johnson to win heavyweight boxing title
• Technology: Motorized taxis appear

Erich Muenter the German instructor at Cornell U plants bomb that destroys US Senate reception room then shoots J Pierpont Morgan Jr. and commits suicide,

East

• New York: Opera diva Geraldine Farrar of New York's Metropolitain Opera stars in silent film of Carmen
  Auto speed record set at 102.6 mph
• Pennsylvania: 20 inches of rain cause flooding in Erie

Midwest

South

• Louisiana: New Orleans hurricane destroys 90% of buildings
• Mississippi: US Public Health official Dr. Joseph Goldberger produces Pellagra in 12 inmates (Niacin deficiency) – case cited in Nuremberg Trials
• Texas: Hurricane ravages Galveston

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 100 degree temps at Ft. Yukon
• Nevada: Quake 7.1
• Utah: Former president Taft visits Utah again

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 466,238

Temples: 4

Other

• Home Evening established
• Jesus the Christ published
• Rick's Academy (high school) becomes Rick's College
• Relief Society Magazine published
• Two Mormon leaders killed in Mexico