4

Bernard Snow (II) 75
John Sylvester Perry 79
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 74
Lawson Green Wilson 84

3

William Nephi Lowe 62
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 52
Charles Eben Snow 47
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 50
Martin Peterson 66
Elisha Peck Jr. 60
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 55

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 28
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 25
Harry Chester Peterson 29
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 29

General

Population: 2.09 Billion*

• Entertainment: Music includes George Gershwin, Paul Hindemith, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
  First Dracula movie created starring Bela Lugosi
  Dr. William Rose edits outline of modern knowledge
  Popular artists include Ethel Waters (I Got Rythym), Cab Calloway (Minnie the Moocher), Wayne King/Guy Lombardo (Good Night Sweetheart), Isham Jones (Stardust)
  Artists include Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali (Persistence of Memory), Jacob Epstein, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse
  Rockerfeller Center started
  Empire State Building completed
  Films include City Lights (Chaplin), Frankenstein (Karloff), Flowers and Trees (Disney's First Color Film)
  Clark Gable begins Hollywood career
  Popular songs include "Minnie the Moocher", "Mood Indigo", "Goodnight Sweetheart", "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain"
  Writers include Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth), Noel Coward, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, Robert Frost (Nobel Prize), Henry James, Eugene O'Neill, John Dewey, Max Planck, Albert Schweitzer
• Fashion: Ellery J Chun designs first mass-production Hawaiian shirt
  Lastex rubber changes bra industry
• Religion: Jehovah's Witnesses formed from Internation Bible Students Association
  Pope Pius XI releases encyclical of new social order (against socialism)
• Science: Electron microscope invented
  Radio engineer Jansky builds radio telescope and calculates the sidereal day – 4 minutes short of solar day – rotation against star background
  Harold C Urey discovers deuterium
  JG Lansky discovers radio interference frim Milky Way
  Work done on high-pressure materians and chemicals
  igh-voltage atomic transmutations
  Julius A Nieuwland devises process for developing neoprene (synthetic rubber)
  Swiss Chemist Paul Karrer isolated Vitamin A
  Godel presents proof of incompleteness of mathematics
• Technology: Spicer-Dufay process of natural color photography invented
  American physicist EO Lawrence invents cyclotron
• Transportation: Clyde Panghorn and Hugh Herndon fly across Pacific nonstop
• Deaths: Thomas Alva Edison, Sir Thomas Lipton British tea merchant, Starr Faithfull's mysterious death at shore of Long Beach NY, American banker Mortimer L Schiff, Coach Knute Rockne, Founder of Macy's Nathan Straus, Anna Pavlova, Melvil Dewey (decimal system), Archbishop of Uppsala Nathan Soderblom

Africa

• General: Benguella-Katanga trans-African railroad completed from Angola to Mozambique

Americas

• General: Honduras and Belize hurricane kills 1500
• Argentina: Coup puts Justo on the throne
• Belize: Cyclone
• Brazil: National Coffee Department begins official destruction of surplus stocks
• Chile: Revolution
• Puerto Rico: Cornelius Rhoads – Rockefeller Institute infects human subjects in Puerto Rico with cancer cells – Rhoads later starts US Army Biological Warfare program – also later starts radiation experiments

Asia

• China: Japan attacks China at Shanghai
  Communists set up rival government in Jiangxi
  Civil war continues
  Kwantung Province in China floods killing millions – also Yangtze River valley floods with another 140,000 dead
• Java: Merapi erupts
• Manchuria: Mukden incident - Japan invades Manchuria

Europe

• Austria: Collapse of Austria's Credit Anstalt leads to financial crisis in Central Europe
  Heimwehr coup in Austria fails
• France: Paul Doumer elected President
  Death of Marshal of France Joseph Joffre
  Pierre Laval elected Premier
  International Colonial Expo in Paris
• Germany: Bankruptcy of German Danatbank leads to closure of all German banks
  German millionaire Hugenberg undertakes support of the Nazi Party
  German support for Nazi Party grows
• Great Britain: Statute of Westminster recognizes independence of dominions
  British naval force at Invergordon mutinies over pay cuts
  Great Depression in England leads to formation of unified government under conservative Ramsay MacDonald
  Ramsay MacDonald forms second National Government
  Britain abandons gold standard and pound sterling falls from $4.86 to $3.49
  Oswald Mosley leaves British labour party to form fascist party
  King George V accepts 2 millionth telephone for use at Buckingham palace,
• Spain: Republicans win strong victories in Spanish elections
  Spain declared republic and King Alphonse flees to France
  King Alfonso XIII leaves Spain and goes into exile
• Switzerland: N face of Matterhorn climbed (first) by Franz and Toni Schmid

Middle East

• Palestine: Habima theater settles permanently in Tel Aviv

Pacific

• Arctic: Australian explorer GH Wilkins captains Nautilus submarine under Arctic Ocean
• Australia: Foundation of United Australia Party
• New Zealand: Earthquake in New Zealand 7.9 kills 258

President:

Pres: Herbert Hoover

General

• Americana: Star Spangled Banner adopted as national anthem
• Crime: Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone jailed for income tax evasion
• Entertainment: 40,000 televisions in US
• Finance: Over four million Americans unemployed
• Law: US Senate passes Veterans Compensation Act over Hoover's veto
• Medicine: US vaccine production becomes possible through work of Ernest Goodpasture
  Diphtheria kills children in US
• Politics: President Hoover suggests one-year moratorium on reparation of war debts
• Science: Genetics Society of America founded
• Sports: Baseball player Joe Sprinz catches ball, dropped from dirigible at 900 feet - caught but shockwave breaks his jaw

East

• General: George Washington Bridge completed NJ and NY
• New Jersey: Possible tsunami
• New York: Empire State Building opens
  New York "World" suspends publication as NY newspapers amalgamated
  Billie Holiday begins singing in Harlem clubs

Midwest

• General: Six years of drought hit US great plains
• Illinois: Mental patients at Elgin State Hospital in IL injected with radium as experiment to 1933

South

• Alabama: The nine Scottsboro boys are falsely accused of rape
• Arkansas: Mrs. Hattie T Caraway becomes first woman senator elected

West and Pacific

• Hawaii: Hottest Hawaiian temp ever - 100 degrees
• Nevada: IWW-promoted strike on Hoover Dam due to bad and unsafe working conditions

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 688,435

Temples: 7

Other

• History of the Church film completed
• Church news first published
• Church music committee outlines choirs for each ward or stake
• Lyndon Baines Johnson first learns about Mormons through roommate Truman Young