4

Bernard Snow (II) 70
John Sylvester Perry 74
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 69
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 75
Lawson Green Wilson 79

3

William Nephi Lowe 57
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 47
Charles Eben Snow 42
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 45
Martin Peterson 61
Elisha Peck Jr. 55
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 50

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 23
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 20
Harry Chester Peterson 24
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 24

General

Population: 2.02 Billion*

• Anthropology: Chinese "Peking Man" discovered
• Entertainment: Book of the Month Club founded
  Langston Hughes publishes The Weary Blues
  Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises published
  Writers include William Faulkner, John Galsworthy, HL Mencken, Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), Franz Kafka, SH Lawrence, TE Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis turns down Pulitzer, AA Milne (Winnie the Pooh), HG Wells, Thornton Wilder, JM Keynes
  Bestseller Sorrell and Son
  Oscar Hammerstein II starts composing
  "Bojangles" appears on stage
  Movies include Faust, Ben Hur, Don Juan (John Barrymore)
  Popular artists include Vincent Lopez Show Me The Way to go Home, George Olson, Al Jolson, Vernon Dalhart, Jan Garber (Baby Face)
  First popular "Talkie" of The Jazz Singer, Movie – Ben Hur
  Music includes Bela Bartok, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honeggar, Ernst Krenek, Giacomo Puccini, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington's first records appear
  "Jelly Roll" Morton's first recordings of jazz
  Art includes Marc Chagall, Jacov Epstein, Edvard Munch Film montages invented and first "talkie" picture demonstrated
  X-rays create mutations in fruit flies
• Exploration: Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett cross North Pole by plane
• Fashion: Permanent wave invented by Antonio Buzzacchino
• Science: Pavlov publishes The Conditioned Reflexes
  Hermann Staudinger explores macromolecular chemistry
  US biochemist James B Sumner observes urease enzyme
  Robert H Goddard fires first liquid fuel rocket
  Werner Heisenberg further develops quantum theory
  Thomas H Morgan publishes theory of the gene
  WP Murphy and George Minot treat pernicious anemia with liver extract
  Schrodinger introduces wave mechanics
• Sports: H Vierkotter swims the Channel in less than 13 hours
  Cushioned cork-center baseball introduced
  Tennis "Match of the Century" as French Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills
  Jack Dempsey beaten in boxing by Gene Tunney
• Technology: "Electrola" recording technique established
  Kodak produces first 16mm movie film
  Photomaton constructed by Russian inventor Anatole Josepho
• Deaths: English chemist Sir William Tilden, Harry Houdini, Italian physician Camillo Golgi, English biologist William Bateson, Francis Bacon attempts refrigeration by stuffing chicken with snow but he caught a chill and died, Eugene V Debs, Harvard president Charles W Eliot, Emile Coue the French psychotherapist (Day by day in every way I am getting better and better), Mary Cassatt, Rudolf Valentino (age 31 after finishing The Son of the Sheik), Claude Monet, Isadora Duncan (or 1927), American newspaper publisher Edward W Scripps

Africa

• Morocco: Arab uprising under Abd-el-Krim forced to lay down arms by Spain and France - Riff War

Americas

• Argentina: End of Alevar's presidency as former leader Irigoyen returns
• Cuba: Hurricane
• Nicaragua: US sends troops to Nicaragua to protect interests
• Panama: Agreement with US for protection of Panama

Asia

• Dutch East Indies: Anticolonial Communist agitation
• India: Samllpox
  Lord Halifax named Viceory
• Japan: Hirohito becomes emperor after father Yoshihito
  End of Taisho period

Europe

• General: Tension between Italy and Germany over South Tirol
  Italy and Albania sign Treaty of Tirana
• Austria: Ignaz Seipel elected Chancellor
• Bosnia: Landslide
• Czechoslovakia: German ministers take office in Czechoslovak government
• France: Poincare elected Premier
• Germany: Entrance into League of Nations
  Fascist youth Organization Hitlerjugend founded
  Ernst Lubitsch leaves Berlin for Hollywood
  Dr. Joseph Goebbels named Nazi Gauleiter of Berlin
  Stigmatic Therese Neumann found in the Bavarian village of Konnersreuth
  Deutsche Lufthansa airline founded
  Joseph Goebbels demands Hitler be expelled from Nazi party
• Great Britain: General strike by miners for increased wages - Army runs services
  Irish Eamon de valera founds Fiànna Fáil Party
  Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates working television
  Reading University founded
  JS Sargent Memorial Expo in London
  Stanley Spencer creates murals for Burghclere Chapel in Hampshire
  British General Electricity Board established
  Alan Cobham flies from Croydon ENG to Capetown SAFR, to investigate long-term flight
  British Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) founded
  Scott Polar Research Institute opens in Cambridge
  Britain gives full Independence to dominions
• Italy: Fascist youth Organization "Ballilla" formed
• Poland: Joseph Pilsudski in power with coup
• Portugal: Army overthrows government
• Soviet Union: Neutrality pact with Germany
  Trotsky and Zinoviev expelled from Moscow

Middle East

• Iraq: Independence
• Lebanon: Republic proclaimed
• Saudi Arabia: Independence with Ibn Saud as king
• Syria: French bombard Damascus after Druse uprising
• Turkey: Reforms include abolition of polygamy, modernization of female attire, prohibition of fez, and adoption of Latin alphabet

Pacific

• Arctic: Richard E Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly from Spitsbergen to North Pole and back
  Amundsen, Ellsworth, and Nobile fly over North Pole to Alaska in airship "Norge"
• Australia: Canberra becomes capital

President:

Pres: Calvin Coolidge

General

• Culture: Negro history Week established
• Entertainment: NBC becomes first statement on the air
  Comedians Lauren and Hardy begin working together
  Death of Rudolph Valentino
  RCA, GE, and Westinghouse establish NBC
• Politics: McNary-Haugen bill calling for a tariff on agricultural products defeated
• Sports: Gertrude Ederle (USA) becomes first woman to swim English Channel
• Technology: Goddard launches liquid-filled rocket
• Deaths: Weakened Annie Oakley dies at home (possibly lead poisoning) 18 days later her husband dies of illness
  US ship Suduffco disappears in Bermuda Triangle – some claims destroyed by sea monster but no evidence ever found

East

• General: George Washington Bridge planned to span Hudson River between Ft. Lee NJ and Fort Washington NY
• Maine: Tsunami hits
• Maryland: F4 tornado kills 14
• New Jersey: Dover lightning storm
• New York: Sarah Lawrence College founded in Bronxville
  Schomburg Collection of Black Culture donated to NY public libraries

Midwest

• General: Large flood

South

• Florida: Great Miami Hurricane kills 243

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Senator Cameron fails election due to his opposition to the Grand Canyon preservation
• California: Fire in San Luis Obispo destroys $15 million in property – started by lightning
  Two quakes over 6.0
• Hawaii: Mauna Loa erupts

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 623,909

Temples: 6

Other

• Weekday religious education expanded to colleges (institute), first time in Idaho
• BYC in Logan closes and land sold to Logan city for public school