4

Bernard Snow (II) 76
John Sylvester Perry 80
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 75
Lawson Green Wilson 85

3

William Nephi Lowe 63
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 53
Charles Eben Snow 48
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 51
Martin Peterson 67
Elisha Peck Jr. 61
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 56

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 29
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 26
Harry Chester Peterson 30
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 30

General

Population: 2.11 Billion*

• Architecture: The International Style published which introduces International style of architecture
• Business: First self-service supermarket opens
• Communication: Basic English proposed as prospective international language
• Entertainment: Writers include Jean Anouilh, WH Auden, Bertolt Brecht, Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road), William Faulkner, Graham Green, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), François Mauriac, Andre Maurois, Boris Pasternak, Upton Sinclair, Karl Jaspers, Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth, Sidney and Beatrice Webb visit USSR and write memoirs
  Popular musicians include Fred Astaire and Leo Reisman, Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis, Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee
  Songs include Brother Can You Spare a Dime and April in Paris
  Anniversary of Goeethe's death celebrated
  Shakespeare Memorial Theater opened
  Art includes Max Beckmann, Burra, Edwin Lutyens (Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool), Pablo Picasso, Grant Wood
  Films include The Blue Light, M, A nous la liberte, A Farewell to Arms (Gary Cooper), Grand Hotel (Garbo), Shanghai Express (Dietrich), Sign of the Cross (De Mille), John Weissmuller appears in first Tarzan film, Shriley Temple's first film – Red Haired Alibi, Fugitive Fram a Chain Gang
  Sir Thomas Beecham founds London Philharmonic
  Music includes Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Cole Porter, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schonberg
• Finance: Gustav Cassel writes about money crisis
• Science: Neutron discovered
  Atom first split
  HJ Muller starts criticizing eugenics
  CD Anderson discovers positron
  Wh Carothers synthesizes polyamide
  Cordoba catalogue mentions over 600k stars in southern sky
  Nobel Prize for Werner Heisenberg for matrix theory of quantum mechanics
  Karl Jansky established foundation for development of radio astronomy
  Richard Kuhn investigates riboflavin
  Fritz Mietzsch and Josef Klarer develop sulfonamide
• Sports: Jack Sharkey of US defeats Max Schmeling (GER) for heavyweight title
• Technology: First modern airliner
• Transportation: Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo across Atlantic
  Edwin Land invents light polarizer
  Auguste Piccard reaches height of 17.5 miles in stratosphere balloon
  Balloon tire produced for farm tractors
  Imperial Airways serves 22 countries
• Deaths: Eben Byers dies of radiation poisoning after consuming large quantities of a popular drug with radium in it
  William Wrigley Jr. the chewing gum magnate, Founder of Sears Roebuck Julius Rosenwald, Andre Maginot (Maginot Line), Charles W Chesnutt – lawyer and black educator, John Philip Sousa, German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, Scottish Biologist Sir Patrick Geddes, George Eastman camera guru, French statesman Aristide Briand, French diplomat and ambassador Jean Jules Jusserand

Africa

Americas

• General: Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia begins to 1935
• Canada: Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa – Britain gives limited trading preference to Commonwealth
  First sighting of Caddy the Canadian monster in Strait of Georgia
  Lightning hits geese over Manitoba
• Cuba: Storm wave kills 2500
• Mexico: Possible tsunami
• Puerto Rico: Hurricane

Asia

• General: Famine in central Asia
• China: Quake in Kansu (Gansu) kills 70,000
• India: Indian Congress declared illegal and Gandhi arrested
• Japan: Begins conquest of world markets by undercutting prices
• Manchuria: Japan sets up puppet state of Manzhouguo (Manchukuo)
• Thailand: Aboslute rule of Thai king ends with new Thai constitution

Europe

• France: Non-aggression treaty with USSR
  Andre Tardieu elected Prime Minister
• Germany: Postwar reparations abolished
  Hindenberg (now senile) defeats Hitler as president of Germany but Hitler forms a cabinet
  Peter Kürten German serial killer dies by guillotine
  Gen Kurt von Schleicher named German Chancellor after Papen's redignation
• Great Britain: George V makes the first Christmas broadcast
  Lambeth Bridge in London opens
  Thomas Hampson establishes record 800 m run
  Sir Oswald Mosley founds British Union of Fascists and begins stirring up anti-Semitism in East London
  Methodist Churches in England reunify
  BBC takes over responsibility to develop television from Baird Group
• Hungary: Julius Gombos the anti-Semitic nationalist forms government
• Ireland: Eamon de Valera elected President
• Italy: Fascist government begins draining Pontine Marshes southeast of Rome
• Netherlands: Zuider Zee (Holland) drainage project completed
• Portugal: Portuguese finance minister Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes dictator to 1968
• Soviet Union: Start of the Ukraine Holodomor famine also in central Asia
  Pact with France
  Famine in USSR created by collectiveness kills 5 million
  Resistance by peasants in Russia as starvation of millions
  USSR declares 5 year plan complete
  USSR attempts a six-day week, but it is ignored by the people
• Spain: Royal uprising in Spain suppressed
• Sweden: Ivar Kreuger Swedish "match king" commits suicide and company collapses
• Switzerland: Disarmament conference at Geneva achieves nothing

Middle East

• Iraq: British mandate ends - independence
• Saudi Arabia: Founded as kingdom under Ibn Saud

Pacific

• Antarctica: Australia takes control of large section of Antarctica
  RE Byrd begins second South Pole expedition
• Australia: Harbour Bridge in Sydney opens

President:

Pres: Herbert Hoover
Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected over Herbert Hoover

General

• Crime: Charles Lindbergh Jr. kidnaped Mar 1, Found dead May 12
• Education: John Dewey becomes America's most prominent educational voice and announces "new individualism" defined by associations
  School districts drop to 127,300 from 355,000 high in 1900 (see 1990 for comparison)
• Finance: Reconstruction Finance Corporation is organized - lends money for rebuilding of US economy
  US unemployment tops 13.7 million
• Politics: FDR elected proposing New Deal
  Stimson Doctrine announced regarding Asian borders
  FDR overturns prohibition
  US Federal Reserve System reorganized

East

• General: Extreme low pressure along East Coast
• New York: Mr. Bullen in the US at Sing Sing prison sent to electric chair but recovered, escaped, and was then electrocuted again
  Radio City Music Hall opens
• Vermont: Bennington College opens
• Washington D.C.: Folger Library opens
  17,000 ex-servicemen protest for their bonus checks

Midwest

• General: Beginning of "dustbowl" to 1940
• Wisconsin: First unemployment insurance law enacted

South

• General: Tornado outbreak - total killed equal 268
• Alabama: Tornadoes in Marion
  Start of Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male until 1972
• Tennessee: Tornado hits Lexington

West and Pacific

• California: Work on Golden Gate Bridge started
  Olympics held in Los Angeles
• Nevada: 7.2 quake
• Utah: Unemployment reaches 36%
  Governor calls for special fast
  Hoover visits SLC before Smoot's reelection campaign – both lose.

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 703,949

Temples: 7

Other

• First missionary training classes
• Lion House put under control of YLMIS (Ladies)
• Campaign against tobacco started
• Governor Dern proclaims special fast day
• Great Salt Lake Meridian dedicated at SE corner of temple Square
• Mormon Trail markers placed in UT and WY
• President Lee establishes storehouse
• Coolidge is blessed by Elder Smoot shortly before ex-president's death