4

Bernard Snow (II) 80
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 79
Lawson Green Wilson 89 died

3

William Nephi Lowe 67
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 57
Charles Eben Snow 52
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 55
Martin Peterson 71
Elisha Peck Jr. 65
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 60

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 33
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 30
Harry Chester Peterson 34
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 34

General

Population: 2.22 Billion*

• Anthropology: Louis Leakey marries Mary Douglas, starting natural history dynasty
  First Australopithecus skull discovered
• Entertainment: Prokofiev composes Peter and the Wolf
  Music includes Richard Strauss, Constant Lambert, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Samuel Barber,
  Popular songs include It's De-lovely, I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)
  Allen Lane founds Penguin Books
  Writers include Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People), F Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind), Montherlant, Dylan Thomas, Kaufman and Hart (You Can't Take It With You), Jean Anouilh, Robert Frost, JM Keynes, Sigmund Freud
  Nobel Prize literature Eugene O'Neill
  Artists include Mondriaan
  Films: Modern Times (Chaplin), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Capra), San Francisco (Gable)
• Fashion: "Aloha" shirt patented by Ellery J Chun
• Finance: Keynes publishes modern economics study
• Food: SPAM the meat product named
• Medicine: Dr. Alexis carrel develops artificial heart
• Politics: Germany, Italy and Japan form "Axis"
• Science: Nobel Prizes Anderson for positron and Hess for cosmic radiation
  German diesel-electric vessel "Wupperthal" launched
  Philipp Fauth writes about the moon
• Transportation: Dirigible "Hindenburg" lands at Lakehurst NJ after transatlantic flight
  Mrs. Amy Mollison flies from England to S Africa,
• Deaths: Ivan Pavlov, Rudyard Kipling, English poet AE Housman, Author Maxim Gorki, Clara Butt, GK Chesterton,Richard Loeb (see 1924), George V, Ottorino Respighi

Africa

• General: Italian troops take Addis Ababa
• Egypt: Britain is granted use of Egyptian facilities in wartime - Anglo-Egyptian treaty signed providing 20 years of alliance
  Death of King Fuad of Egypt succeded by son Farouk
• Ethiopia: Defeated by Italy
  Italian East Africa becomes Eritrea Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia to 1944
  Abyssinian War ends and Italy annexes the country - King Victor Emmanuel proclaimed Emperor of Abyssinia
• Ghana: End of British suppression of Ghana speakers
• Morocco: Rebellion against Spain
• South Africa: Representation of Natives Act denies South African blacks political equality

Americas

• Mexico: Trotsky exiled from Russia – settles in Mexico

Asia

• China: Chang Kai-shek kidnapped by nationalist troops – want to end civil war with Communists and unite against Japan
  Chiang Kai-shek enters Canton
  Continuation of Chinese Civil War
  Drought and famine in West China kill 5 million
• India: Smallpox outbreak in Calcutta
• Japan: Rice cake poisoning kills 38
  Koki Hirota named Premier
  Japanese army kills 10,000 by testing anthrax cholera typhoid and plague on humans in occupied Manchuria

Europe

• General: Italy Austria and Hungary sign Rome Pact
  Britain France and US Sign London Naval convention
• Austria: Schuschnigg the Austrian chancellor becomes leader of Fatherland Front
  Austro-German convention acknowledges Austrian independence
• France: Premier Laval replaced by Albert Sarraut then Leon Blum
  France devalues franc
  Death of French flier Louis Bleriot
• Germany: Adolph Hitler re-occupies left bank of Rhine (Rhineland) on French-Belgian border
  Nazi expo of "Degenerate Art"
  Tome-Berlin axis is formed
  Hitler receives 99% of the vote - Four-year plan inaugurated
  Germany begins building Siegfried Line
  Olympic Games held in Germany (opened by Hitler) – Jesse Owens wins four gold medals upsetting Hitler
  Eugenics becomes passion in Germany
  German professor Heinrich Focke designs first practical helicopter
• Great Britain: George V dies
  Edward VIII named king but abdicates to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson - made Duke of Windsor instead
  Rearmament
  Fire destroys Crystal Palace
  Maiden voyage of Queen Mary
  Oswald Mosley leads anti-Jewish march to Whitechapel London and is driven out
  BBC inaugurates first television service
  George VI (brother of Edward) receives British throne
  London U moves to Bloomsbury
  Len Hutton emerges as England's leading cricket player
  BBC London inaugurates television service with three hours a day of programming
• Italy: Count Ciano Mussolini's son-in-law appointed Italian Foreign minister
  Italy devalues lira
• Soviet Union: Stalin's constitution spreads and purges increase
  Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev writes Peter and the Wolf
• Spain: Civil war follows right-wing coup by Franco to 1939
  Junta de Defensa Nacional set up in Burgos – Franco captures Badajoz
  Franco appointed Chief of State by insurgents and siege of Madrid begins – Spanish government moves to Valencia

Middle East

• General: Arab High Committee formed to combat Jewish claims
• Syria: General strike - France grants Syria home rule
  Alawite State and Jabal el Druze become part of Syria

Pacific

• New Zealand: Arbitration Court of New Zealand fixes wages
  Extinction of Tasmanian Tiger (Wolf)

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected over Republican Alf Landon

General

• Crime: Bruno Richard Hauptman convicted of kidnapping Lindbergh baby
• Entertainment: "Green Hornet" debuts on radio
  Popular musicians include Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire (The Way You Look Tonight), Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman
• Finance: Slight upturn in economy
  Keynes publishes about money
• Law: AAA ruled unconstitutional
• News: Henry Luce begins publishing "Life"
• Politics: US recognizes war in Spain
  US reiterates "Good Neighbor" policy
  FDR reelection marks change in black voting from Republican to Democrat
• Sports: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner first inductees into Baseball Hall of Fame
  Jesse Owens wins four gold medals to the chagrin of the Nazis
• Weather: Drought in America
  Bad year for tornadoes
• Deaths: Lightning strikes tombstone of Major Summerford – who was paralyzed progressively three times with lightning in his life
  Last public execution by hanging in US

East

• New York: Albert Fish, the child rapist, serial killer, and cannibal executed by electric chair "Gray Man" "Werewolf of Wisteria" "Brooklyn Vampire" "The Bogeyman"
  Baseball Hall of Frame founded in Cooperstown
• Pennsylvania: Ayoob Banana Company in Pittsburg explodes due to buildup of ethylene gas
  Floods sweep Johnstown

Midwest

• North Dakota: Six weeks of below zero temperatures

South

• General: Major tornado outbreaks kill 444 in a few days
• Alabama: Cheorkee tornado
• Georgia: Gaineville tornadoes
• Mississippi: Tupelo tornado

West and Pacific

• California: an Francisco native discovers plaque from 1579 showing British claimed Nova Albion or California as their own
• Nevada: Bouder (Hoover) dam on Colorado River NV/AZ completed creating Lake Mead
• Utah: FDR and Eleanor meet in Utah for funeral of secretary of war (former UT governor) George H. Dern
  35.9 percent unemployment

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 760,690

Temples: 7

Other

• Aaronic Priesthood for adults organized
• Formal welfare program initiated
• Stake mission supervision turned over to the stakes (in time for WWII)
• Heber J. Grant encourages votes against FDR who wins anyway
• Deseret Club the forerunner of LDSSA started in CA
• Mormon Elders invited to coach the German basketball team for Olympics