4

Bernard Snow (II) 77
John Sylvester Perry 81
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 76
Lawson Green Wilson 86

3

William Nephi Lowe 64
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 54
Charles Eben Snow 49
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 52
Martin Peterson 68
Elisha Peck Jr. 62
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 57

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 30
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 27
Harry Chester Peterson 31
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 31

General

Population: 2.16 Billion*

• Entertainment: Strauss, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Shostakovich compose
  Art includes Giacometti, Henri Matisse
  Popular songs include Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Stormy Weather, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  Popular musicians include Dick Powell or Ted Weems (Gold Digger's Song – We're In The Money), Don Bestor (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf!), Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters (Stormy Weather)
  Films include Queen Christina (Garbo), Hitlerjunge Quex (propaganda), King Kong, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Cavalcade, Little Women (K Hepburn), She Done Him Wrong (Mae West)
  Writers include TS Eliot, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, François Mauriac, Andre Maurois, Eugene O'Neill, George Orwell, Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, HG Wells, Virginia Woolf, Winston S Churchill, CG Jung, Franklin D Roosevelt, Nathan Soderblom, Leon Trotsky
  Best seller "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton
  Edward (Lord) Grey of Fallodon
  Raymond Bragg publishes Humanist Manifesto I
• Fashion: Lacoste fashion company started
• Religion: German Evangelical Church (amalgamation) established
• Science: Anderson and Millikan discover positrons
  Ludwig von Bertalanffy writes about theoretical biology
  Nobel Prize for physics Paul Dirac (ENG) and Erwin Schrodinger (AUS) for discovery of new forms of atomic energy
  Nobel Prize – Thomas Hunt Morgan for heredity
  Tadeusz reichstein synthesizes pure vitamin C
  De Haas reaches low temperature phenomena
  Theory of descent from Neanderthals rejected following discovery of Steinheim skull
  Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) recognized
• Technology: Marconiphone Company manufactures all-metal radio tube
  First electric typewriter
  Edwin Armstrong introduces Frequency modulation (FM)
• Transportation: First passenger airplanes in business
• Deaths: Actor "Fatty" Arbuckle, French bacteriologist Albert Calmette, Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen, Annie Besant the English reformer, English newspaper editor Horatio W Bottomley, Henry Royce, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Earl Derr Biggers (USA – Charlie Chan), English author John Galsworthy, German composer Max von Schillings, Calvin Coolidge

Africa

Americas

• General: War between Paraguay and Bolivia
• Canada: 7.4 quake
• Mexico: Calles establishes Six-Year Plan
  Two hurricanes hit Tampico
• Newfoundland: End status as dominion, but remains within British Empire
• Peru: President Sanchez Cerro assassinated by an "aprista"

Asia

• China: Civil war continues
  Mysterious disease
  Yellow River floods killing 50,000
• Japan: Withdrawal from League of Nations
  Tsunami kills 3000 after 8.4 quake off coast
  Bus with seven acrobats plunges off cliff - all live by jumpting through windows after slowed by hitting tree
• Manchuria: Plague
• Nepal: British planes fly over Mt. Everest

Europe

• Austria: Nazi Party dissolved
  Chancellor Dollfuss suspends parliament
  Bruno Walter leaves Germany to Vienna
• Czechoslovakia: Konrad Henlein organizes Nazi Party
• France: Stavisky scandal – high-level fraud
  Edouard Daladier becomes Premier
• Germany: Adolph Hitler elected to Chancellor after ten-year rise to power
  Withdrawal from League of Nations
  Goebbels named Hitler's Minister of Propaganda
  Nazis begin persecution of Jews
  German labor unions suppressed
  Political parties suppressed
  Nazis sweep election with 92%
  All books by non-Nazi and Jewish authors burned in Germany
  Hermann Goering named Prussian Prime Minister
  Kandinsky and Klee leave Germany for France and Switzerland
  German art suppressed and modernism discouraged
  German scientific research hampered by Nazi interference
  Burning of German Reichstag - Nazis claim a Communist plot
  Germany four-year plan to end unemployment
  Eugen Hadammovsky writes about propaganda and Nazi theory
  Germany withdraws from League of Nations; 60k artists emigrate from Germany
  Concentration camps set up for political enemies at Dachau and Oranienburg
  Busch brothers Fritz and Adolf leave Germany
• Great Britain: Warburg Institute transferred from Hamburg to London
  W Holden designs Senate House at London U
  Sir Malcolm Campbell reashes auto speed of 272.46 mph
  Edward Chamberlin writes about monopolistic competition
  International economic conference in London
• Ireland: First photo of Loch Ness Monster
• Norway: Vidkun Quisling organizes Nazi Party
• Soviet Union: Second Five-Year Plan announced
  Drought and famine in Kiev
  Nikolai Yudenich the White Russian general dies
  Famine continues, reaching disaster levels
  Purging of Communist Party
  Sergei Prokofiev returns to USSR
• Spain: Anarchist revolt starts and collapses with conservative elected
• Switzerland: Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva completed

Middle East

• Iraq: Assyrian Christians massacred
• Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud permits Standard Oil to prospect

Pacific

• Antarctica: Australia takes control of large section of Antarctica
  RE Byrd begins second South Pole expedition

President:

Pres: Herbert Hoover
Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated

General

• Crime:
• Education: Start of mandated public schooling
• Entertainment: King Kong released
  Screen Actor's Guild created
  George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein found school of American Ballet
• Finance: Gold coins confiscated and dollar becomes loosely pegged to silver
  US National Industrial Recovery Act and Farm Credit Act made law
  US refuses to participate in summits to stabilize currency
  Federal reserve powers increase
  New Deal begins
  American banks close March 6-9 by presidential order
• Law: Prohibition repealed (21st Amendment)
  "Lame Duck" amendment (20th)
  "Ulysses" (Joyce) allowed back into US after court ruling
• Military: First US aircraft carrier "Ranger" launched
• News: Heywood Broun founds American Newspaper Guild
• Politics: US recognizes Soviet Union
  CCC AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) TVA(Tennessee Valley Authority) NIRA created
  Public Works Administration created in US
  US Congress passes Agricultural Adjustment and Federal Emergency Relief Acts
  Frances Perkins becomes first woman cabinet member as Secretary of Labor
  Good Neighbor Policy announced
  US Securities Act passed to protect investors by providing information on new securities issues
  US Congress votes for independence of Philippines
• Sports: First baseball all-star game played
• Technology: Philo Farnsworth develops electronic television
• Weather: USS Ramapo survives 112 foot wave – highest recorded
  Record hurricane season with 21 storms not surpassed until 2005

East

• New York: Homeless man Michael Malloy murdered by gassings after surviving multiple poisonings in attempt to gain life-insurance claims
  Fiorello H LaGuardia elected Mayor of New York City defeating Tammany Hall
• Vermont: Coldest recorded temperature in New England reaches -50 degrees Fahrenheit

Midwest

• General: Dust storms remove topsoil
  Start of 18 months of violence and criminals such as Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, and Babyface Nelson
• Illinois: "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago
• Indiana: First proven case of air sabotage when United Air Boeing 247 destroyed by explosive over Indiana

South

• Tennessee: F3 tornado hits Nashville

West and Pacific

• California: Long Beach quake kills 115
  Work begins on Golden Gate Bridge
• Oregon: Firestorm produces tornado-like winds
• Washington: Grand Coulee Dam completed

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 717,619

Temples: 7

Other

• Church celebrates 100th anniversary of the Word of Wisdom
• Church sites begin to be marked with historical markers by Relief Society
• Washington D.C. meetinghouse with Moroni-capped spire dedicated
• Reactivation of adult members emphasized
• "Century of Progress" fair in Chicago gives Church exposure with booth - designed by Avard Fairbanks, sculptor
• Church leaders show mixed reactions to New Deal
• FDR meets with First Presidency