4

Bernard Snow (II) 74
John Sylvester Perry 78
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 73
Lawson Green Wilson 84

3

William Nephi Lowe 61
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 51
Charles Eben Snow 46
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 49
Martin Peterson 65
Elisha Peck Jr. 59
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 54

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 27
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 24
Harry Chester Peterson 28
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 28

General

Population: 2.07 Billion*

• Archaeology: Thomas Whittemore begins cleaning Byzantine mosaics at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
• Entertainment: Art includes Henri Matisse, Grant Wood (American Gothic)
  Musicians include Stravinski, Prokofiev, Bela Bartok, Paul Hindemith, Zoltan Kodaly, Arnold Schonberg, Kurt Weill
  First radio ratings system
  Popular Songs include Georgia on my Mind, I Got Rhythm, Happy Days are Here Again,, Puttin' on the Ritz, The Sunny Side of the Street, Films include Blue Angel (Marlene Dietrich), All Quiet on the Western Front, Anna Christie (Greta Garbo), Murder (Hitchcock), R Hood designs Daily News Building in New York
  Van Doesburg uses term "l'art concrete"
  Writers include Conrad Aiken, WH Auden, Noel Coward, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, JM Keynes, Albert Schweitzer, Leon Trotsky
  Sinclair Lewis wins Nobel Prize for literature
• Fashion: Rene Lacoste "le crocodile" makes first designer logo of the crocodile tennis shirt (see 1933)
• Medicine: S African microbiologist Max Theiler develops yellow faver vaccine
• Politics: Britain US Japan France and Italy sign treaty on naval disarmament
• Religion: Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Later Pope Pius XII) named Vatican secretary of State
• Science: PJW Debye investigates molecular structure using x-rays
  Pluto discovered by CW Tombaugh
  this decade superfluidity discovered
  A.S. Eddington attempts unified theory
  Hans Fischer (GER) does chlorophyll research and synthesis of hemin
  US biochemist JH Northrop makes crystallized pepsin and trypsin
  BV Schmidt builds first coma-free 14-inch Schmidt mirror telescope
• Sports: Bobby Jones wins golf's "grand slam"
  "Gallant Fox" wins triple crown
• Technology: US physicist Ernest O Lawrence pioneers development of cyclotron
  J Walter Reppe (GER) makes artificial fabrics from acetylene base
  Photoflash bulb comes into use
  "Technocracy" becomes buzzword
  Clarence Birdseye develops technique for preserving foods by freezing
  Sliced bread introduced
  Electron microscope invented
• Deaths: Cosima Wagner – second wife of Wagner, Siegfried Wagner (son of famous), FE Smith (Lord Birkenhead), Dr. William A. Spooner, English novelist DH Lawrence, Lon (Alonso) Chaney, Arthur Conan Doyle, DH Lawrence, American electrical engineer and inventor Elmer A Sperry, "Deadwood Dick" (Richard W Clarke), William Howard Taft

Africa

• Congo: Drought and famine
• Ethiopia: Ras Tafari crowned in Ethiopia as Haile Selassie I
• South Africa: White women given vote
• Tunisia: Plague in Tunis kills Arabs

Americas

• Argentina: Revolution deposes Irigoyen and puts Uríburu in power as right-wing dictatorship
• Brazil: Getúlio Vargas leads revolution - right-wing dictatorship set up
• Canada: Dunning tariff gives preferential treatment to Britain
• Dominican Republic: Hurricane kills 4000
• Mexico: Smallpox
• Peru: End of Leguia as president as Cerro leads

Asia

• India: Gandhi institutes salt marches to protest against British Rule
  First round table discussion
• Indonesia: Mt. Merapi erupts killing 1369
• Japan: Premier Hamaguchi assassinated
• Philippines: Smallpox in Balut and Sarangani (near Philippines)

Europe

• General: Treaty of Ankara between Greece and Turkey
  Picture telegraphy between Germany and Britain
  Austria and Italy sign treaty of friendship
• Austria: Catholic-Fascist Heimwehr units established in Austria under Prince von Starhemberg
• France: Singer Edith Piaf appears in cabaret
  Start construction of Maginot line
• Germany: Last Allied troops leave the Saar/Rhineland
  Mysterious disease strikes Mennonites
  Nazis gain 107 seats in German elections
  Five German glider pilots carried into thuundercloud where they became hailstone nuclei – one survives
  Nazi politician Wilhelm Frick becomes government minister in Thruingia
  Heinrich Bruning forms right-wing coalition government
• Great Britain: Youth Hostels Association opens
  London Naval Conference – great powers fail to agree on naval limitations
  BBC Symphony Orchestra formed
  English pilot Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
  Pilgrim Trust – American railroad magnate ES Harkness gives 2 million pounds in hands of Prime Minister Baldwin of England
• Poland: Pilsudski forms right-wing government
  Crown Prince Carol becomes King
• Soviet Union: First Five-Year Plan collectivises property
  Turksib rail line between Turkestan and Siberia opened
  Magnitogorsk founded under first USSR five-year plan for mining
  Litvinov named USSR Foreign minister
• Spain: End of dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
• Switzerland: The clown Grock (Adrian Wettach) publishes memoirs "I Like to Live"

Middle East

• Bahrain: Standard Oil and Texas Oil form Bahrain Petroleum Company
• Iraq: Mesopotamia renamed Iraq
• Palestine: Passfield White Paper on Palestine suggests that Jewish immigration be halted
• Turkey: Constantinople changed to Istanbul

Pacific

• Australia: Farmers suffer as global depression closes overseas markets
  Old Tom the killer whale dies and town of Eden New South Wales lose whaling companion

President:

Pres: Herbert Hoover

General

• Crime: Edward L Doheny acquitted of bribery in Teapot Dome scandal
• Entertainment: "Blondie" cartoons gain popularity in US
• Finance: Public Works programs begin
  Congress passes Hawley-Smoot Tariff
• Military: Veterans Administration established
• Politics: Republicans lose control of US House
  Federal Bureau of Narcotics organized
• Travel: McNary-Watres Act establishes airplane routes
• Death: William Kogut – death row inmate at San Quentin commits suicide made from playing cards – red used to contain nitrocellulose

East

• Massachusetts: Boston bans all works by Leon Trotsky
• New York: Art Deco Chrysler Building built
  Fred Astaire appears on Broadway
  Herbert Hoover orders two to break in to Democratic Party office

Midwest

• General: Drought

South

• General: Drought

West and Pacific

• Utah: Over half of population now lives in cities
  Standardville Utah mine explosion kills 23

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 670,017

Temples: 7

Other

• Centennial of Church's organization - Commemorated with Solemn Assembly
• BH Roberts presents History of the Church to the Church for centennial
• Ronald Reagan begins working with LDS actress Rhonda Fleming
• Elder Smoot represents Church at funeral of W.H. Taft
• Smoot and new wife spend honeymoon in white house
• Hoover invites Elder David O. McKay to participate in White House conference on child health
• J. Reuben Clark Jr. appointed ambassador to Mexico – waits until Hoover out of office to resign
• President Grant gives Book of Mormon to FDR
• President Hoover approves Smoot-Hawley high tariff
• In Germany, LDS hymns referring to Israel and Zion destroyed (through 30s)
• German scriptures burned in Brazil fearing Nazi influence (through 30s)
• J. Reuben Clark's Memorandum of 1928 on Monroe Doctrine published