5

Susan Coons (Killian) 80

4

Bernard Snow (II) 62
John Sylvester Perry 66
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 61
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 67
Lawson Green Wilson 71

3

William Nephi Lowe 49
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 39
Charles Eben Snow 34
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 37
Martin Peterson 53
Elisha Peck Jr. 47
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 42

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 15
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 12
Harry Chester Peterson 16
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 16

General

Population: 1.86 Billion*

• Entertainment: Music includes Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Puccini, Eugene D'Albert, Bartok, Irving Berlin, Rudolf Friml, Hans Pfitzner, Erik Satie, Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, K-K-K-Katy, Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
  Art includes Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Fernand Leger, Amedeo Modigliani, Edvard Munch, Paul Nash, Matisse, Robert Delauney, Kandinsky, Joan Miro
  Films include Ma the Mummy, Carmen, A Dog's Life, Shoulder Arms (Chaplin), The Tenth Symphony
  Richard Huelsenbeck starts Dada movement in Germany
  Writing includes Willa Cather (My Antonia), Rupert Brooke, Laurence Housman, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Pinero, Aldous Huxley, SH Lawrence, HG Wells, Booth Tarkington, Gustav Cassel, Georges Duhamel, Bertrand Russell, Best seller is Blasco-Ibanez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge gives first of her music festivals
  David Low's cartoons appear in London
  Ozenfant and Le Corbusier publish manifesto on purism after cubism
• Medicine: Spanish Flu pandemic outbreak - more dead than from war 20-200 million by end
• Politics: WWI ends – 8.5 million killed in war and 21 million wounded
  Wilson's 14 points to end war
  Treaty of Versailles includes League of Nations
  Congress of Oppressed Nationalities helps to set up governments of E Europe
• Science: Nobel Prize for physics Max Planck (quantum theory)
  Ludwig Prandtl German physicist develops wing theory for flight
  Harlow Shapley American astronomer discovers dimensions of Milky Way
  Sir Arthur Stanley writes about principle of relativity
  Controversy over new psychology of Freud and Jung
• Transportation: Railway wreck kills 98 due to brake failure
  Worst circus train accident as troop train crashed into stationary train
  First airplane flight across Atlantic
• Deaths: Claude Debussy, Red Baron, Czar Nicholas II, Russian "Great Five" composer Cesar Cui, Concrete engineer Otto Wagner, Dramatist Edmond Rostand, Mohammed V of Turkey, Joyce Kilmer, death of Irish leader John Redmond, Cossack Leader Lavr Kornilov, Heavyweight boxing champion John L Sullivan, German explorer of Africa Karl Peters

Africa

• German East Africa: Region falls to disorder

Americas

• Canada: Pilot Capt. Sedley falls out of plane, but lands on tail and climbs back to seat
  Vilhjalmur Stefansson returns from 5-year journey in Arctic
  B.C. quake
• Mexico: Oilfields nationalized
• Puerto Rico: 7.5 quake and tsunami
• Venezuela: Oilfields opened

Asia

• China: Hsu-Shih-Chang president of Chinese Republic
• Hong Kong: Jockey Club collapses – 600 die
• Japan: Invasion of Siberia
  Tokyo typhoon

Europe

• General: End of WWI - 11:00 on 11/11 armistice signed
  Treaty of Versailles includes League of Nations
  Germans eventually defeated at second battle of Marne
  Congress of Oppressed Nationalities helps to set up governments of E Europe
• Austria-Hungary: Fall of Habsburgs
  Austria becomes a republic - Charles I renoundes all participation in Austrian affairs of state,
  Hungarian Premier Count Tisza assassinated – Allies sign armistice with Austria-Hungary
  Split of Austrio-Hungary to Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes
• Belgium: Ammunition trains explode killing 1750 German soldiers
• Bulgaria: King Ferndinand of Bulgaria abdicates in favor of his son Boris
• Czechoslovakia: Pittsburgh Agreement between Czechs and Slovaks
  Czechoslovakia proclaimed independent republic with TG Masaryk president
• Finland: Gen. Mannerheim named Regent
• France: Germans invade Paris - forced out
  Paris opera opens with Faust under bombardments
  Republic of Alsace Lorraine transferred from Germany to France
• Germany: Fall of government and social democrats take over forming Weimar Republic
  Sailors mutiny
  Prince Max of Baden named German Chancellor
  Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates
  Fall of Hahenzollern family
  Treaty of Brest-Litovsk gives much of western Russia to Germany
  German fleet Mutinies at Kiel
  1388 planes of the German Luftwaffe assembled for attack
  Germany suspends submarine warfare
  Eugenio Pacelli (later Pius XII) named papal nuncio to the Weimar Republic
  German revolutionary Communist Workers' Party (KPD) founded in Berlin by Liebknecht and Luxemburg
  End of German kingdoms of Württemberg, Saxony, Prussia, Bavaria, Baden, Anhalt, Alsace Soviet Republic, and Alsace-Lorraine
  Eight-hour day established in Germany
  Allies break through German defenses on Hindenburg Line forcing retreat
• Great Britain: Conservatives win government
  British RAF replaces RFC
  Women over 30 get the vote
  Food shortage in Britain leads to national food kitchens and rationing
  Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop becomes English and kills 72 in battle
• Iceland: Norway's Christian X also rules Iceland
  Iceland becomes sovereign state
• Ireland: Sinn Fein wins vote and establishes own parliament
• Italy: Victory over Austria-Hungary at Battle of Vittorio
• Poland: Republic proclaimed - Josef Pilsudski vested with dictatorial powers and elected chief of state
  Poles occupy Posen
  Lemko-Rusyn Republic ceded to Poland
• Romania: Peace signed with Central Powers
  Transylvania becomes part of Romania
• Russia: Civil war between "White" and "Red" to 1921
  Depopulation of towns due to civil war
  Execution of Tsar Nicholas II and family Caucasus and Estonia declare independence
  Bolsheviks sign treaty of Bresst-Litovsk
  Soviets lead from Moscow
  Attempted assassination of Lenin in Moscow
  Russia drops Russian calendar and adopts Gregorian
  American troops try to reestablish old regime
  Second Moscow U founded
  Typhus outbreak
  Temporary creation of Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, Perloja, and Lithuania
• Yugoslavia: Montenegro unites with Serbia
  Serbo-Croatian-Slovene Kingdom of Yugoslavia pronounced

Middle East

• General: Arab revolt ends
• Iraq: Under British rule as Mesopotamia
  Leonard Woolley begins Babylonian excavations
• Ottoman Empire: Collapse - see also Turkey
• Palestine: Battle of Megiddo - British break Turkish line
  Lawrence of Arabia leads revolt
  Collapse of TUrkish resistance
• Syria: Emir Faisal proclaims Syrian state - king in 1920
• Turkey: Loses Cyprus
  Mohammed V dies and Sultan Mohammad VI ascends throne
  Armistice signed

Pacific

• Australia: Collapse (?)
• Tonga: Queen Salote becomes queen

President:

Pres: Woodrow Wilson

General

• Crime: American socialist and candidate Eugene V Debs sentenced to 10 years in prison for violating espionage and sedition law
• Culture: US Post Office burns installments of James Joyce's Ulysses
  Cyril Briggs founds African Blood Brotherhood – a radical organization,
• Education: British evolutionist Benjamin Kidd writes about US education attempting to "impose on the young the ideal of subordination"
  NEA findings criticize academic pursuits as leading too many students to new invention business and independence
• Law: Reformation (representation) Act gives vote to women over 30
  Women's effort in WWI pushes through a constitutional amendment to vote
• Military: President Wilson creates Chemical Warfare Service after finding out that Germans had chemical weapons
  Stars and Stripes newspaper begins publication
• Politics: Republicans win majority
• Religion: United Lutheran Church established in US
• Sports: US boxing champion Abraham Hollandersky (Abe the Newsboy) retires
  Jack Dempsey American heavyweight boxing champion
• Time: Daylight saving time introduced in America
• Transportation: Regular airmail service between New York and D.C., Chicago-NY too

East

• Massachusetts: Coldest New Years in Boston
  Karl Muck German conductor of Boston Symphony arrested as alien
• New York: Theater guild of New York founded by Lawrence Langner
  NY Philharmonic Society bans compositions by living Germans
  Gustav Kobbe killed in New York when his sailboat crushed by landing sea plane

Midwest

• Minnesota: Cloquet fire kills 453 - second deadliest
  Hinckley fire
• Missouri: Last state to ratify compulsory school attendance law

South

• Knute Rockne named head football coach at U of Notre Dame
• Kentucky: Exterminator wins Kentucky Derby
• Louisiana: Hurricane

West and Pacific

• California: Mount Wilson telescope completed

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith died
Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 495,962

Temples: 4

Other

• Relief Society sells 205,518 bushels of wheat to US government
• No funeral for Pres. Smith because of flu epidemic
• American Relief Committee chair Hoover expresses gratitude for Relief Society
• Son of Joseph F Smith dies and President Smith receives vision of Redemption of the Dead - Sectopn 138
• President Grant sustained by 12 but not by Church until 1919 due to flu