4

Bernard Snow (II) 68
John Sylvester Perry 72
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 67
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 73
Lawson Green Wilson 77

3

William Nephi Lowe 55
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 45
Charles Eben Snow 40
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 43
Martin Peterson 59
Elisha Peck Jr. 53
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 48

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 21
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 18
Harry Chester Peterson 22
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 22

General

Population: 2.01 Billion*

• Antiquity: English orientalist EAW Budge edits works of Baraalam and Yearsef
• Business: Disbanding of International Workers of the World
• Entertainment: Music includes Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Al Jolson (California Here I Come), Isham Jones (It Had to be You), Puccini's Turnadot, The Gershwin brothers begin composing, Leos Janacek, Ottorino Respighi, Arnold Schonberg, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky
  Stieglitz marries Georgia O'Keeffe
  Writers include Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain), Sean O'Cases (Juno and the Paycock),
  Mah-Jong craze worldwide
  Breton publishes Surrealist manifesto in France
  Films include The Last Laugh, America, The Ten Commandments (Cecil B De Mille), The Thief of Bagdad (D Fairbanks), The City that Never Sleeps, The Navigator (Buster Keaton)
  Art includes Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, OSkar Kokoschka, Edwin Lutyens (architecture), Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso (abstract period), Die Blauen Vier (Blue Four) expressionist painters include Feininger Jawlensky Kandinsky and Klee
  Wilhelm-Marx Haus built as one of German skyscrapers
  Italian painter Girogio de Chirico arrives in Paris
  Jean Gris lectures at the Sorbonne
  Writers include EM Forster (Passage to India), Robert Frost, George Jean Nathan founds "The American Mercury", Albert Schweitzer
• Medicine: Earle Dickson invents Band-Aid
• Politics: Karl Haushofer writes about geopolitics of the Pacific
• Religion: Vatican orders priests to resign from Partito Popolare
• Science: Haldane publishes re: genetic variation and population changes
  de Broglie publishes regarding wave theory - proposes matter is both wave and particle
  Henry Draper Catalogue (225k stars) published by Harvard
  Eddington discovers luminosity related to mass of stars
  Koppen and Wegener write about early climates
  RC Andrews discovers Mesozoic dinosaur skeletons in Gobi Desert
  Appleton demonstrates that short wave radio waves penetrate more
  Stars discovered beyond Milky Way
• Technology: Insecticides first used
  Patent application for iconoscope (TV) filed by Russian-American VK Zworikin
  John Logie Baird builds working television
  Ernst Alexanderson transmits first facsimile message across Atlantic
• Travel: German airship pioneer Hugo Eckener flies across Atlantic
  Flettner constructs 3-masted schooner
• Weather: Temps fall 79 degrees in 24 hours (88 in 34 hours) from 63 to -25
• Deaths: Samuel Gompers president of AFL, Scottish geologist Sir Archibald Geikie, German-American physiologist Jacques Loeb, German physicist Georg H Quincke, Flemish painter Emile Claus, American engineer (Holand Tunnel) Clifford Holland, Giacomo Puccini, Joseph Conrad, Frank Kafka, Sabine Baring-Gould (Onward Christian Soldiers writer), Francies Hodgson Burnett (Little Lord Fauntleroy), Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Nikolai Lenin, French composer Gabriel Faure

Africa

• South Africa: JBM Herzog white Anti-British statesman becomes Prime Minister of the Union

Americas

• General: Pan-American Treaty signed to prevent conflicts between nations
• Dominican Republic: US withdraws but keeps presence as protector
• Mexico: Calles elected president

Asia

• China: Chinese government under Sun Yat-sen falters upon death
  Chang Kai-shek rules setting up Communism
  Chinese nationalist party Kuomintang holds first national conference
• India: Cholera
  Gandhi fasts for 21 days
• Japan: Huge quake destroys Yokihama and Tokyo - washes train out to sea
  Tsukiji Little Theater opens in Tokyo
• Tibet: Bailey Moresehead and Ward find source of Brahmaputra-Tsangpo River

Europe

• Albania: Republic founded
• Austria: Max Reinhardt opens theater in Vienna
  Attempt on the life of Austrian Chancellor Ignaz Seipel
• Denmark: Danish polar explorer Knut Rasmussen completed longest dog-sledge journey up to Point Barrow AK
• France: First Winter Olympics in Chamonix - US dominates
  Gaston Doumerque elected President – Edouard Herriot becomes premier
• Germany: Dawes plan reduces German reparations
  Germany's Karl Denke arrested after human flesh pickled in jars found in his apartment – at least 30 cannibalized and possibly sold at market – hung himself
  Mass murderer Fritz Haarmann (26 victims) sentenced to death by decapitation
  Hitler imprisoned for sedition against Weimar republic - 5-year sentence shortened to 8 months
  New reichsmark introduced
• Great Britain: Stanley Baldwin resigns and Ramsay MacDonald forms first Labour government
  British Imperial Airways begins operations
  World Power Conference held in London
  Ancient Monuments Society founded in London
  Recognizes USSR
  London Foreign Office publishes Zinoviev letter where the Third International allegedly instructs Britons to incite revolution
  Winston Churchill switches to conservatives and is named Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Greece: Venizelos becomes Prime Minister
  Greece proclaimed republic
• Italy: Giocomo Matteotti (socialist) murdered by Fascist Quadristi,
  First elections in Italy under Fascist methods – 65 percent go for Mussolini
• Netherlands: World Chess League founded at the Hague
• USSR: "Red Terror" ends
  Lenin dies of a stroke and Trotsky and Stalin struggle for power
  Stalin Zinoviev and Kamenev ally against Trotsky
  Central Office for Examination of Rocket Problems founded in Moscow

Middle East

• General: 96 degree water temp measured in Persian Gulf
• Persia: Ahmed Shah of Persia dethroned and Reza Khan appointed regent
• Transjordan: Britain insists on control of political affairs

Pacific

President:

Pres: Calvin Coolidge reelected over John W. Davis

General

• Business: Farmers start protesting against business in US
  10 millionth car produced by Ford Co.
• Crime: Teapot Dome scandal - US Navy Secretary Edwin Denby resigns due to oil leases
  Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnap-slaying of 17-year-old Bobby Franks
• Culture: Auguste Forel publishes "Why we should avoid alcohol"
• Entertainment: Will Rogers at height of career
  25 million radios in US
• Law: Native Americans made US citizens
  Congress restricts immigration with Johnson-Reed Act - excludes all Japanese and restricts Africans
• Military: Congress passes Vetrans' Bonus Bill
  J Edgar Hoover apponted Bureau of Investigation (renamed FBI in 1935)
• Sports: Notre Dame under coaching of Knute Rockne
• Transportation: First round-the-world flight by US Army planes

East

• Massachusetts: Sergei Koussevitzky appointed chief conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra
• New York: Possible tsunami

Midwest

• Ohio: Four tornadoes

South

• General: 22 tornadoes cause widespread damage
• Oklahoma: Fire at Babb Switch School kills 36
• South Carolina: Florence tornadoes
• West Virginia: Mine disaster kills 119

West and Pacific

• California: 33 die from plague - quickly stamped out
• Utah: Castle Gate mine explosion kills 173
  KZN radio in UT changed to KSL
  Lehi Dairy Association formed with Elisha Peck (Sr.?) as Vice President

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 597,861

Temples: 6

Other

• First Presidency reconfirms Church's policy against polygamy and shows how polygamists excommunicated
• Radio broadcast of General Conference begins on KSL
• Japan mission closes due to xenophobia and Japanese Exclusion Act which ousts foreigners