4

Bernard Snow (II) 72
John Sylvester Perry 76
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 71
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 77 died
Lawson Green Wilson 81

3

William Nephi Lowe 59
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 49
Charles Eben Snow 44
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 47
Martin Peterson 63
Elisha Peck Jr. 57
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 52

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 25
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 22
Harry Chester Peterson 26
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 26

General

Population: 2.04 Billion*

• Communication: Bernays publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" and "Propaganda" – both influenced Hitler - stated that language influences reality
  John Baird beams television image from England to US
  Al Jolson's "Sonny Boy" sells 12 million records in 4 weeks
• Entertainment: Writing includes Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover
  Popular artists include Mack the Knife, Fred Waring (I Scream), Paul Robeson (Ol' Man River)
  Music includes Ravel's Bolero
  Artists include Max Beckmann, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Hugo Lederer (Sculpture), Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Sloan (Ashcan school)
  Films include Disney's first Mickey Mouse films, The Circus (Chaplin), The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Lights of New York (longest sound film – Warner Brothers)
  Shakespeare memorial Theater designed
  Music includes George Gershwin (American in Paris), Maurice Ravel (Bolero), Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Kurt Weill
  Toscanini named consuctor of NY Philharmonic
  Popular Songs include Makin' Whoopee, You're the Cream in My Coffee, Button Up Your Overcoat
  Writers include Stephen Vincent Benet, Colette, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, DH Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover), Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, Carl Sandburg, Dorthy L Sayers, MA Sholokov, Upton Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, CG Jung, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, George Bernard Shaw
  Margaret Mead publishes Coming of Age in Samoa
• Fashion: Female fashion includes "Garconne style"
  Clip-on tie designed
• Military: Anti-war Kellog-Briand pact signed in Paris outlawing war
• Politics: Franz Boas designs Fascist theory of "Master Race"
• Religion: New editon of Encyclopaedia Judiaca appears
• Science: Fleming discovers penicillin
  PAM Dirac replaces second-order wave equation
  FA Paneth founds radio chemistry
  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi isolates vitamin C
• Technology: GE introduces television with 3" by 4" screen
  First television sold a Daven for $75
  JL Baird demonstrated color TV
  Teleprinters and teletype comes into restricted use in US Germany and Britain
  First color notion pictures exhibited by George Eastman
  H Geiger and W Muller construct "Geiger Counter"
  Indian physicist CV Raman discovers Raman effect of light
  Color television patented
• Travel: Graf Zeppelin crosses Atlantic
  Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across Atlantic
• Deaths: HH Asquith Earl of Ocfors and Asquith and Prime Minister of Great Britain, British field marshal Douglas Earl of Haig, George W Geothals American chief engineer on Panama Canal, Earle Leonard Nelson "Dark Strangler" Serial killer hanged after luring women with bible reading and then raped their corpses, English suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst, Swedish explorer Otto Nordenskjold, Richard E Outcault (USA cartoonist – Buster Brown), US politician Chauncey M Depew, Mexican President Alvaro Obregon, Egyptian statesman Rushdi Pasha, Indian statesman Satyendra Sinha, American marathon walker E P Weston

Africa

• Antilles: Cyclone
• Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood founded

Americas

• General: Sixth Pan- American conference
  West Indies hurricane kills 900 on Guadeloupe and 5000 overall
• Argentina: Irigoyen re-elected president but was unpopular
• Brazil: Economy collapses due to over-production of coffee
• Mexico: Obregón re-elected in Mexico but was assassinated, leaving Calles as dictator

Asia

• China: Capital changes from Peiping to Beijing
  Civil War continues
  Famine
  Chiang Kai-shek elected president
• East Indies: Rokatinda erupts
• Japan: Troops murder military ruler of Manchuria
• Philippines: Mayon erupts

Europe

• Albania: Kingdom proclaimed with Zog I king
• Croatia: Assassination of Croat politician Stefan Radic
• France: French begin to build fortification – the Maginot Line – on German border
• Germany: Owen D Young Committee appointed to examine German reparations
• Great Britain: New English Dictionary completed
  Women over 21 given vote - reduced from 30
  First robot constructed by Rickards and Refell
  Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  Development of Morse radio transmitter allows development of Royal Flying Doctor Service to help remote people
  Thames overflows banks due to abnormally high tide
  Machine for boning and cleaning kippers makes first run at Fleetwood ENG
  British aviator Frank C Whittle posted to 111 Fighter Squadron
  Foundation of Scottish National Party
  Great flood in London
  Kenwood House in England opened to public as museum
• Italy: Italy establishes Fascist Grand Council
  Eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily
  Italy signs 20-year treaty with Ethiopia
• Netherlands: Olympic Games in Amsterdam – first women participants – Sonja Henie (NOR) wins
• Portugal: General Antonio Carmona becomes President
• Soviet Union: First Five Year Plan of industrialization announced - many workers executed
  Russian physician Alexander Bogdanov dies when he recieves a transfusion of of malaria and tuberculosis
• Switzerland: Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne founded in Geneva

Middle East

• Palestine: Moscow Habima Theater tours Palestine
  Ecumenical Missionary Conference held in Jerusalem

Pacific

• Arctic: Death of Roald Amundsen Norwegian explorer while attempting to rescue Italian explorer who crashed in Arctic
• Australia: Australian pilot Charles Kingsford-Smith makes first crossing of Pacific

President:

Pres: Calvin Coolidge
Pres: Herbert Hoover elected over Al Smith

General

• Crime: Teapot Dome investigation ends
• Culture: James Joyce's Ulysses deemed obscene by the government
  US adopts prohibition
• Entertainment: Vaudeville partners with Joseph P. Kennedy's film company
  Mickey Mouse appears as Steamboar Willie
• Politics: Roosevelt Corollary renounced
  Workers' Party nominates William Z Foster
  Socialist Party nominates Norman Thomas for presidency in US

East

• New York: Philharmonic radio broadcast
  First regular television programs
  New York Times installs moving electric sign around Times Building
  High-speed tickers installed on Wall Street doubles speed
• Pennsylvania: 35 inches of snow falls April 28th

Midwest

• Minnesota: Original resident Carl Panzram arrested and confesses to killing 21

South

• Florida: Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee killing thousands
• Louisiana: Huey Long (King Fish) elected

West and Pacific

• California: First Academy Awards held in Hollywood
  Hollywood studios work with AT&T
• Utah: Hoover campaigns in Utah

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 655,686

Temples: 7

Other

• Church purchases Hill Cumorah
• Church publishes Melchizedek Priesthood handbook
• Church creates Vanguards - later Explorer scouts replaces it
• Priesthood meets during Sunday School
• Coolidge appoints J. Reuben Clark Jr. as undersecretary of state
• Elder Smoot's wife dies – President invetes widower to stay at White House for a week
• Hoover asks Smoot about cabinet structure