5

Susan Coons (Killian) 79

4

Bernard Snow (II) 61
John Sylvester Perry 65
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 60
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 66
Lawson Green Wilson 70

3

William Nephi Lowe 48
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 38
Charles Eben Snow 33
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 36
Martin Peterson 52
Elisha Peck Jr. 46
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 41

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 14
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 11
Harry Chester Peterson 15
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 15

General

Population: 1.85 Billion*

• General: WWI Continues
• Entertainment: Writers includes Yeats (Wild Swans at Coole), Norman Douglas, TS Eliot, Leon Feuchtwanger, Knut Hamsun, James Barrie, Upton Sinclair, Unamuno, JJ Jusserand, Sinclair Lewis, CG Jung (Psychology)
  Salzburg Festival initiated by writers
  Picasso designs surrealist sets and costumes for Satie's ballet Parade
  Art includes Modigliani, Pierre Bonnard, JS Sargent, George Gorsz
  Chaplin's annual salary reaches one million dollars
  Music includes Hans Pfitzner, Prokofiev, Ottorino Respighi, Busoni, Sigmund Romberg, Bartok
  Top songs include The Bells of St. Mary's, Over There, Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here, McNamara's Band
  French composers Les Six include Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc, and Tailleferre
  Films include The Little Princess (Mary Pickford), Mater dolorosa, U.F.A.
• Fashion: Bobbed hair as ladies' fashion sweeps Britain and US
• Medicine: World influenza epidemic to 1919
• Science: Sigmund Freud introduces psychoanalysis
  Wagner von Jauregg treats syphilitic paralysis by injecting malaria
• Technology: Electric drill invented
• Deaths: Impressionist Edgar Degas, Portraitist Carolus-DuranCount Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Auguste Rodin, Surgeon Emil Theodor Kocher, Actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Bacteriologist Emil Behring, WF Buffalo Bill Cody

Africa

• Ethiopia: Ras Tagari becomes regent
• German East Africa: German forces in German East Africa withstand British and Portuguese at Mahiwa – Germans withdraw into Mozambique

Americas

• Argentina: Entry into WWI
• Brazil: War on Germany declared
• Canada: In Halifax a loaded warship explosion causes tsunami – largest non-nuclear explosion kills 1600
  Quebec railroad bridge completed
• Cuba: War on Germany
• El Salvador: Mt. Boqueron erupts
• Mexico: New constitution has principles of land reform
  U.S. troops withdraw from Mexico after capturing Pancho Villa
  US intercepts telegraph "Zimmerman Note" from German secretary Zimmerman trying to persuade Mexico to war with US
• Puerto Rico: US citizenship
• Virgin Islands: US purchases from Denmark

Asia

• China: Entry into WWI
  Sun Yat-sen struggles for leadership of Chinese republic
• Philippines: Filipino National Guard organized

Europe

• General: WWI - Third battle of Ypres kills 700,000
  Poincare receives peace offer from Emperor Charles of Austria (Sixtus Letter)
  Mata Hari the dancer and questionable woman wrongly accused of spying and executed
  Isonzo battle #8
  Passchendaele battle
• Albania: Independence proclaimed
• Austria-Hungary: Corfu Manifesto proclaims union of south Slavs
• Czechoslovakia: Bohemia munitions factory explosion kills 1000
• Finland: Finnish Republic proclaimed
• France: Half-million French mutiny (go on strike)
  Petain becomes Chief of French General Staff
  General Pershing arrives in Paris to head American forces
  Clemenceau Premier of France
• Germany: Renewal of submarine warfare
  Starvation Year
• Great Britain: Tanks first used by British at battle of Cambrai
  King George V denounces German heritage and name of Wettin changed to Windsor
  Imperial War Museum founded in London
  Companion of Honour and Order of the British Empire decorations established
  Bread rationed
  German aircraft attack London
  British merchants lose 4 million tons over year
• Greece: King Constantine I of Greece abdicates in favor of son Alexander I
• Italy: CD Carra and Giorgio de Chirico found school of Italian metaphysical painting
  Italian army routed at Caporetto
• Netherlands: Holland declares universal suffrage
• Russia: Civil war begins
  Ukraine, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania declare independence from Russia
  Typhus in Russia kills 3 million by 1921
  Trotsky leads government
  Bolsheviks sign armistice with Germany
  Czar Nicholas II abdicates
  October Revolution in November (Old calendar) as Bolsheviks take over Kerensky regime
  Lenin to power and beginning of "Red Terror"
  Trans-Siberian Railroad completed
  Munitions steamer explosion in Archangel Russia kills 1500
  Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol
• Vatican City: Peace note of Pope Benedict XV

Middle East

• Mesopotamia: Baghdad captured by British
• Ottoman Empire: Brits defeat Ottomans and Palestine under British control
  T.E. Lawrence takes command of Arab revolt against Turkey
• Palestine: Balfour Declaration commits Britain to creation of Jewish state

Pacific

President:

Pres: Woodrow Wilson

General

• General: War on Germany then Austria-Hungary - US enters WWI
• Business: IWW demonstration against war result in raids on their offices
  Figure of Nancy Green – the original Aunt Jemima – replaced with kerchiefed caricature to 1989
• Culture: Four women arrested for picketing White House on behalf of Women's Suffrage and are sent to 6 months jail
  Immigrants from Mexico start to increase
• Education: Smith-Hughes Ace passes promoting technical education
  US education moves under the Education Trust which included Rockefeller Carnegie Harvard Stanford U of Chicago and NEA
• Entertainment: Sarah Bernhardt 72 begins last tour of America
• Finance: Fuel and food controls in US
• Land: US purchases Virgin Islands from Denmark
• Law: 26 states pass prohibition laws and 18th Amendment proposed
  US Senate bill rejects Wilson's suffrage bill
  Puerto Ricans made US citizens
  Literacy requirements for US citizenship passed over Wilson's veto
• Military: US declares war on Germany April 6 - enters WWI
  Draft reinstituted
  300,000 blacks serve in WWI
  US intercepts "Zimmerman Note" trying to persuade Mexico to war with US
  U.S. troops withdraw from Mexico after capturing Pancho Villa

East

• New York: School riots over forced schooling by Jewish students
  Liberty Loan rally held at NYSE promoted by former president Taft
  First baseball game played in Polo Grounds on a Sunday violate NY blue law – managers arrested

Midwest

• General: Drought on Great Plains
  Deadly tornado year in US Midwest
  Ohio River freezes enough for people to walk from Indiana to Kentucky
  Tornado injures 1200 in Illinois south through Mississippi
• Illinois: Chicago becomes world jazz center – first jazz recordings by Dixieland Jazz Band (NY)
• Indiana: Tornado in New Albany
• Kansas: 10 inch hailstones fall over Eskridge

South

• Florida: Great Okeechobee Freeze devastates Everglades

West and Pacific

• General: Telephone services between Utah and Nevada
• California: 100-in. reflecting telescope installed at Mt. Wilson
• Colorado: Buffalo Bill Cody dies
• Montana: Eddystone Ammo. Corporation explosion kills 133-163 workers - mine disaster

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 488,038

Temples: 4

Other

• Conference begins as war is declared April 6th
• Church Administration Building completed
• Wilson appoints Saint to subcabinet position as James Henry Moyle serves as assistant secretary of Treasury
• Future president Hoover works with Bishop Charles W. Nibley at sugar conference