5

Susan Coons (Killian) 78
Lott Russon 87 died

4

Bernard Snow (II) 60
John Sylvester Perry 64
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 59
Anders Peder Jensen 91 died
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 65
Lawson Green Wilson 69

3

William Nephi Lowe 47
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 37
Charles Eben Snow 32
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 35
Martin Peterson 51
Elisha Peck Jr. 45
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 40

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 13
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 10
Harry Chester Peterson 14
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 14

General

Population: 1.84 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Sandburg (Four Poems), Vicente Blasco Ibanez, John Buchan, D'Annunzio, James Joyce (Portrait of the Artist…), Eugene O'Neill, John Dewey (Democracy and Education), Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems), Theodore Dreiser, Edna Ferber, Zoe Akins
  Art includes Matisse, Monet's Water Lilies, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dadaist cult in Zurich under Tristan Tzara and Hans Arp, John Marin
  Films include Intolerance, Civilization, The Pawn Shop (Chaplin), Resurrection, Homonkulus
  Music includes Felix von Weingartner, Schubert-Berte, Leo Fall, Granados, De Falla, Frederic Norton, Jazz sweeps US
  London wartime revue The Bing Boys are Here
  Top songs include I Ain't Got Nobody, You Belong to Me, The Darktown Strutters' Ball, Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You
• Medicine: Theory of shell shock suggested by FW Mott
  Blood for transfusion first refrigerated
  Sympathectomy for relief of angina pectoris first performed by Ionescu
• Science: Einstein's theory of general relativity
  Langevin constructs underwater ultrasonic source for submarine detection
  New valence theory stated by GN Lewis
  Eddington investigates physical properties of stars
• Technology: Radios first equipt with tuners
• Deaths: Henry James, Jack London, Conductor Hans Richter, Hetty Green the richest woman in the world and a notorious miser, Rasputin, Composer Max Reger, Painter Franz Marc, Physiologist Ilya Ilich Mechnikov, Astronomer Percival Lowell, Scientist Ilya Mechnikov, Chemist William Ramsay, Physicist Ernst Mach, Queen of Rumania and writer Carmen Sulva (Elizabeth of Wied),

Africa

• General: Boer leader Jan Smuts leads anti-German drive from Kenya into Tanzania
• German Cameroon: British and Belgian troops take capital of Yaounde

Americas

• Argentina: Hipoliti Irigoyen becomes president until 1922
• Canada: Matheson Ontario fire
• Danish West Indies: (Virgin Islands) purchased by U.S. for 25 million
• Dominican Republic: US troops land in Santo Domingo to settle internal strife – not withdrawn until 1924
• Haiti: Treaty with US to end dependent status
• Mexico: Pancho Villa attacks Americans and 6000 troops under Pershing sent over Mexican border
  Start of Mexican Revolution
• Nicaragua: Poet Rubén Dario dies

Asia

• China: Opportunist Yuan Shih-kai dies
  Empire becomes Republic
• Japan: Frank Lloyd Wright designs Tokyo's Imperial Hotel
• Philippines: Jones Act in US Congress gives Filipinos voice in government, but not independence

Europe

• General: Arab revolt against the Ottomans begins in the Hejaz
  Stalemate battles between Germans and England at Jutland killing 9823
• Armenia: Famine and disease
• Austria-Hungary: Franz Joseph I dies – succeeded by grandnephew Charles I
  Killer avalanche in Slovene Alps
  Count Carl Sturgkh the Premier assassinated
• France: Battle of Verdun kills 1 million
  French ship La Provence sunk by German torpedoes killing 1200
  General Joffre named Marshal
  First Zeppelin raid on Paris
• Germany: Offensive starts with Battle of Verdun
  Food rationed in Germany
  Hindenburg appointed CHief of General Staff
  Gas masks and steel helmets introduced in German army
• Great Britain: Expensive offensive starts on Somme with one million killed and tanks used
  British Navy cruiser Indefatigable sinks killing 1010
  David Lloyd George replaces Asquith as Prime Minister
  Convoys introduced to protect shipping
  British naval cruiser Queen Mary sunk killing 1266
  Easter rising in Dublin against British rule in Ireland - IRA organized by Sinn Fein
  George Washington Carver named to Royal Society of Arts in London
  On North Sea Lord Kitchener killed when ship hits mine
  National Savings movement founded
  Summertime (Daylight Savings Time) introduced
  Foundation of Federation of British Industries
  Draft instituted - British Military Service Act in force
• Netherlands: Floods due to heavy gales in North Sea killing 10,000
• Portugal: Germany declares war - Battles of the Isonzo
• Romania: War declared on Germany
  Bucharest falls to Central Powers
• Russia: Brusolov offensive fails increasing discontent
  Trans-Siberian Railroad completed
  Rasputin poisoned (cyanide) shot bludgeoned castrated and thrown into frozen river
  Ammunition explosion in La Satannaya Russia kills 1000

Middle East

• General: Hussein pronounces self king of Arabs
  TE Lawrence (of Arabia) appointed British political and liason officer to Faisal's army
• Ottoman Empire: Arab revolt against the Ottomans begins in the Hejaz
• Saudi Arabia: Grand Sharif Ali ibn Hussein of Mecca starts Arab revolt against Turks to 1918

Pacific

• Australia: Effort to introduce national army conscription in Australia defeated

President:

Pres: Woodrow Wilson reelected over Charles Evans Hughes (slim margin) and Socialist and Prohibition parties

General

• Business: Law establishing eight-hour work day for railroad workers prevents nation-wide strike
• Culture: Prohibition gains ground as 24 states vote against alcohol
• Education: Death removed from education of US children with concept of evil replaced by "bad attitudes" between 1900 and 1916, plus theme of work as good for youth removed from books by this time
• Finance: Federal Loan Act makes it easier to borrow money
• Law: Congress passes Jones Act
• Medicine: First birth control clinic set up in US by Sanger
  Polio outbreak with 27000 infected and 7000 deaths
• Military: Troops pursue Pancho Villa in Mexico
  Wilson sends peace notes to all hostile countries
• Politics: Progressive Party disbanded
  Congress passes Jones Act for Philippine self-rule
  National Park Service established under US Dept. of the Interior
• Sports: Women's International Bowling Congress established
  Bobby Jones makes US golf debut
  First Rose Bowl football game
  PGA (golf) established

1916 Bandelier National Monument,

East

• New Jersey: German saboteurs destroy ammunition in Jersey City/Black Tom Island killing 7 in the explosion
• New York: First birth control clinic in Brooklyn
  Polio outbreak

Midwest

• Illinois: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

South

• Alabama: Tropical storms dump 20.16 inches of rain in Birmingham
• Kentucky: Hogenville - creation of Sieur de Monts National Monument
• Tennessee: Circus elephant named Mary runs amok killing a man – elephant hung

West and Pacific

• New Mexico: Pancho Villa attacks Columbus killing 17 resulting in the US retalliation
  Creation of Los Alamos Historical Park with Pueblo ruins
• Utah: State Capitol building completed

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 477,321

Temples: 4

Other

• First Presidency clarifies use of term "Father" as it applies to Jesus Christ
• Spencer W. Kimball attends four days of Democratic National Convention in St. Louis as missionary