4

Bernard Snow (II) 78
John Sylvester Perry 82 died
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 77
Lawson Green Wilson 87

3

William Nephi Lowe 65
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 55
Charles Eben Snow 50
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 53
Martin Peterson 69
Elisha Peck Jr. 63
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 58

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 31
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 28
Harry Chester Peterson 32
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 32

General

Population: 2.18 Billion*

• Crime: Dr. Carl Von Cosel keeps corpse of one of his tuberculosis patients – kept body preserved in wax dummy – - later found and was told to rebury the body but he switched again and put the real one on display
• Culture: Birth of Dionne quintuplets
• Entertainment: Benny Goodman ushers in the Big Band era when his program was broadcast
  Creation of Donald Duck
  James Joyce publishes Ulysses
  Writers include Jean Anouulh, Pearl S Buck, Agatha Christie, Jean Cocteau, F Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Albert Einstein, Ezra Pound, JB Priestley, William Saroyan, Upton Sinclair, Bertrand Russell
  Popular musicians include Guy Lombardo (Winter Wonderland), Paul Whiteman (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes), Ben Selvin or others (I Only Have Eyes For You), Benny Goodman, Chick Webb
  Music includes Benjamin Britten, Noel Coward, Paul Hindemith, Cole Porter (Anything Goes), Dimitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff
  Popular songs include "Blue Moon"
  Films include "It Happened One Night" (Capra), "The Thin Man", "The Private Life of Henry VIII"
  Bestsellers include "Goodbye Mr. Chips", "While Rome Burns"
  Art includes Salvador Dali, John Dewey
• Religion: Evangeline Booth elected General of Salvation Army
  Lazar Goldschmidt finishes German translation of Babylonian Talmud
• Science: Electric nature of nerve impulses discovered
  US physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi begins work on atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method for observing radio-range frequencies
  Nobel Prize for Chemistry Harold Urey for discovery of heavy hydrogen
  Asolph Butenandt isolates first crystalline male hormone androsterone
  Enrico Fermi suggests that neutrons and protons are same particles in two states
  Alexander Fleming writes about vaccines
  Noble prized for medicine for overcoming anemia
• Sports: Track star Glenn Cunningham wins world's record with no toes on his left foot
• Technology: Wallace Carothers at Du Pont manufactures polymer 66 (nylon)
  Edwin H Armstrong demonstrates FM radio
  Phthalocyanide dyes are prepared
  Refrigeration process for meat devised
• Transportation: W Bebee descends over 3000 feet into ocean off of Bermuda
• Deaths: Marie Curie, Paul von Hindenburg, Salvatore di Giacoma, Belgian president Albert I, "Grandmother of Russian Revolution" Catherine Breshkovsky

Africa

• Ethiopia: Conflict between Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia leads to Italian Abyssinian Campaign
• Ghana: British colonial government suppresses radical African critics
• Morocco: Formation of Moroccan nationalist party

Americas

• General: War between Bolivia and Paraguay continues
• Cuba: Independence by Platt Amendment - protectorate status ends
• El Salvador: Hurricane
• Mexico: Laws prohibiting Catholic education established
  Cárdenas begins program of reform
• Newfoundland: Self-government from London but still separate from Canada

Asia

• China: Mao Tse-tung leads Chinese communists on a walk across China (Long march)
  Civil war continues
  Landslides
• India: Earthquake kills 10,700
  Gandhi suspends civil disobedience campaign
• Japan: Tokyo-Kobe tunnel completed with 70 dead
  Osaka typhoon kills 4000
  Renunciation of Washington treaties of 1922 and 1930
• Korea: Korea starts Woosaeng (Eugenics) movement
• Nepal: Earthquake
• Philippines: 10-year plan for independence passed
• Tibet: Affirms Chinese rule

Europe

• General: Germany and Poland sign non-aggression pact
  Baklan pact against Hitler and Stalin with Yugoslavia, Romania, Turkey and Greece
  Wavelengths of European broadcasting stations altered to conform with recommendations of Lucerne Committee
• Austria: Chancellor Dollfuss murdered by Nazis
  A revolution in Austria overturns the Social Democrats
  Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice
  Grassglockner Alpine Road opened
  Kurt von Schuschnigg appointed Austrian Chancellor
• Belgium: Death of Albert I and Leopold III becomes King
• France: General strike
  Largest ship to that time the SS Normandie launched
  Louis Joubet takes over the management of the Theatre de l'Athene in Paris
  Foreign minister Louis Barthou assassinated in marsailles
• Germany: Hitler takes control of Germany after the death of Pres. Paul von Hindenburg
  Hitler promoted blood bath in Germany – Schleicher Rohm Strasser and others assassinated
  Hitler elected Fuhrer
  German Labor Front founded
  "Night of the Long Knives" SS troops murder Hitler's rivals
• Great Britain: British Road Traffic Act introduces driving tests
  SS Queen Mary launched
  British Iron and Steel Federation established
  John Christie founds Glyndebourne operatic festival
  Wornum the Royal Institute of British Architects Building made in London
  Oswald Mosley addresses Fascist mass meetings in Britain
  Depressed areas bill introduced in Britain
  Winston Churchill warns British parliament of German air menace
  Oxford History of England published
  Gordonstoun School founded
• Italy: End of Kingdom of Tavolara
• Macedonia: King Alexander assassinated
• Soviet Union: Joins League of Nations
  Start of the "great terror" after the assassination of Leningrad Party secretary Kirov in Russia
  Osoaviakhim the USSR balloon ascends 13 miles into stratosphere
  First Soviet Writer's Congress held in Moscow
• Ukraine: End Holodomor famine killing 5 million
• Yugoslavia: King Alexander assassinated in Marseilles
  Prince Paul named Regent

Middle East

• General: Opening of British oil pipeline from Kirkuk Iraq to Tripoli Syria
• Pakistan: First Nanga Parbat (Pakistan) expedition fails to reach summit
• Turkey: Mustafa Kemal chooses surname "Atatürk"

Pacific

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt

General

• Crime: FBI shoots John Dillinger "Public Enemy No. 1"
  Bonnie and Clyde shot dead at roadblock
• Culture: Wheeler-Howard Act improves life of Indians
• Entertainment: Benny Goodman ushers in the Big Band era with his program
• Finance: Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act passed
  Civil Works Ermergency Relief Act passed in US
  US Gold Reserve Act authorizes the president to revalue the dollar
  US Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation organized
  US Congress grants FDR power to conclude agreements for reducing tariffs
• Politics: Securities and Exchange Commission created
  Platt Amendment cancelled regarding US-Cuban relations
  FCC created by Communications Act
• Sports: Joe Louis wins first fight
  Max Baer – heavyweight boxing title

East

• General: Dustbowl's "Black Blizzard" reaches East coast
• Massachusetts: Midwest dust storm darkens skies
• New Hampshire: 231 mph winds measured at Mt. Washington
• New Jersey: Morro Castle burns and sinks off Asbury Park NJ killing 130
• New York: "Anything Goes" debuts on Broadway

Midwest

• General: Drought and high winds result in dust bowl on the plains
  Continuation of 18 months of crime wave through midwest involving Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Babyface Nelson, and Machine-gun Kelly
  "Litle Bohemia" shootout results in escape of Dillinger and gang and deaths of lawman and bystander
• Illinois: Dillinger killed and girlfriend Anna Sage wears orange to show location to police - known as "Lady in Red"
  Near Chicago Lester Gillis (Babyface Nelson) has shootout with FBI where he excapes but dies from wounds
  Major dust storm darkens skies
  Eng of "Century of Progress" fair in Chicago

South

• Louisiana: Bonnie and Clyde gunned down
• Texas: Clyde Barrow aids in prison break

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Dillinger's gang arrested, but later escapes
• California: Worst drought lowers Lake Tahoe to lowest level ever
  Glendale CA storm and flood
  Quake
• Utah: Great drought hits

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 730,738

Temples: 7

Other

• Sunday School recognizes Junior Sunday School
• Headquarters for Utah Genealogical Society moved to new headquarters (now LDS Business College)
• Stake 70s have duty for Stake mission work
• FDR visits LDS in Hawaii