4

Bernard Snow (II) 83
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 82

3

William Nephi Lowe 70
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 60
Charles Eben Snow 55
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 58
Martin Peterson 74
Elisha Peck Jr. 68
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 63

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 36
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 33
Harry Chester Peterson 37
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 37

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe born

General

Population: 2.28 Billion*

• Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright's design for Johnson Wax Company building built
• Entertainment: Gone With The Wind released perfecting colored film
  Batman cartoon debuts
  Writers include Adolf Hiter (Mein Kampf English translation), James Joyce, Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley), John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), TS Eliot, William Saroyan, John Dewey, Jose Ortega y Gasset
  Art includes Picasso, Kandinsky, Henry Moore, Utrillo
  England war songs "Roll out the Barrel" (Czech), "Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line", "The Last Time I Saw Paris", and in Germany "Wir fahren gegen England", "Bomben auf England", "Lili Marlene"
  Films include Ninotchka (Garbo), Gone With The Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach
  Music includes Rodgers and Hart, Aaron Copland, Carl Orff, Ivor Novello, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, Kate Smith, Kay Kyser, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller
  50k word novel written by Wright without a single letter "e"
• Fashion: Bras first sold with cup sizes
  Nylon stockings first appear
• Medicine: Philip Levine and Tufus Stetson discover Rh factor of blood
• Religion: Pope Pius XI dies and Pius XII elected (Cardinal Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli)
  Methodist Church rent by schisms of 1830 and 44 reunited
• Science: Hahn and Strassman obtain barium isotopes by bombarding uranium with neutrons
  Joliot-Curie demonstrates possibility of splitting atom
  Paul Muller synthesizes DDT
  Ernest O Lawrence wins Nobel Prize for development of cyclotron
• Sports: First televised baseball game
  Malcolm Campbell establishes water speed record of 368.85 mph
• Technology: Television broadcast at World's Fair
  First precooked frozen foods sold
  Polyethylene invented
  Igor Sikorsky constructs first helicopter
  Edwin H Armstrong invents FM frequency modulation
  Ernest Heinkel flies first jet aircraft
• Travel: Pan-American airways begins flights between US and Europe on "Dixie Clipper"
• Deaths: Sigmund Freud, William Butler Yeats, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Schwab, Dutch-German-American aircraft designer Anthony Fokker

, ++ BOAC founded,

Africa

• South Africa: The Flying Dutchman appears from the Indian ocean (lost 1680), then disappears again
  Declares war on Germany
  Smuts becomes Premier

Americas

• Argentina: Unions and military clash
• Canada: War declared on Germany
• Chile: Earthquake kills 50,000

Asia

• China: Flooding and famine kill 200,000
  Flooding of Yellow River
• Japan: Japanese occupy Hainan and blockade British concession at Tientsin
  US renounces Japanese trade agreement of 1911
• Mongolia: Outer Mongolia – clash between Soviet and Japanese troops
• Thailand: Siam renamed

Europe

• General: WWII begins after Hitler invades Poland and Britain and France declare war
  England and Poland sign trety of mutual assistance
  Axis joins Spain and Hungary against Communism
  tart of countries attempting self-suffiency in food production
  France and England begin talks with Russia to become Allies, but Russia had signed treaty with Germany
  USSR invades Poland from east – "Phony War" as everyone waits for something to happen then USSR attacks Finland
• Albania: Italy invades
• Czechoslovakia: Hitler invades
  Dismembered into Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak State
• Finland: Declares neutrality
  Soviets attack
  Russo-Finnish war – Finland defeated by 1940
  Sirkka Sari the Finnish actress dies falling down a chimney which she mistook for a balcony
• France: British Expeditionary Force of 158k troops sent to France
• Germany: Labor shortages in Germany makes appearance of prosperity and unity
  Ernst Udet General of the Luftwaffe
  Hitler declared that Germans were mistreated in Poland
  Membership in Hitler Youth and League of German Maidens compulsory for all children over 14
  Walther Funk replaces Dr. Schacht as President of German Reichsbank
  Hahn of Germany discovers fission
• Great Britain: Archaeologists uncover ship in British mound – probably Angle king Redewald (Ethelhere)
  Sutton Hoo treasure ship found in England
  King George VI becomes first British monarch to visit US
  British author Ernest Vincent Wright writes 50,000 word novel entirely without the letter e
  Rationing introduced
  Britian announces limitations on Jewish immigration following Arab unrest at large numbers of migrants
  Conscription adopted in Britain
  King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit US
  Winston Churchill becomes first Lord of the Admiralty
  Women and children evacuated from London
  HMS Royal Oak sunk
  Myra Hess organizes National Gallery lunchtime concerts in London
  Frank Buchman reforms Oxford Group as Moral Re-Armament
  Balloons used as barriers against air attacks
  Radar stations used in Britain to give early warning of approaching aircraft
• Hungary: Carpatho-Ukraine declares independence from Czechoslovakia and is annexed by Hungary
  Hungary quits League of nations
• Ireland: Pro-German Sinn Fein movement banned by Irish Government - it goes underground
  Germans sink the "Athenia" off Ireland
• Italy: Chamberlain and Halifax visit Rome
• Norway: Declares neutrality
• Poland: Germany invades
  Poland partitioned between Russia and Germany
  End of the Free City of Danzig
  Hans Frank named Nazi Governor-General of Poland
• Soviet Union: Stalin signs Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler - agree to split Poland
  Soviet Union occupies E Poland and Finland
  Third Five-Year Plan announced
  Molotov succeeds Litvinov as USSR Commissar for Foreign Affairs
• Spain: Franco emerges as dictator to 1975
  Nationalists under Franco capture Barcelona
  Madrid surrenders ending Spanish Civil War
  Britain and France recognize Franco's government – US recognition follows
• Switzerland: Neutrality declared

Middle East

• Turkey: 7.8 Earthquake in Turkey kills at least 50,000
  Von Papen named German ambassador to Turkey

Pacific

• Australia: Australia wins Davis Cup from US,

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt

General

• Business: Coal strike by United Mine Workers demonstrates power of John L Lewis
• Communication: US Transatlantic air mail begins
• Entertainment: Bluegrass first heard at the Grand Ole Opry
  "The Wizard of Oz" debuts on film
  "Grandma Moses" becomes famous in US (Anna M Robertson)
  Popular songs include "God Bless America", "Three Little Fishes", "Over the Rainbow", "Beer Barrel Polka", "I'll Never Smile Again"
• Finance: After 1938 recession US economy begins to recover and by autumn is booming from orders of European orders for war supplies
• Law: US Supreme Court rules sitdown strikes are illegal
• Military: Neutrality Act of 1937 amended
  US declares neutrality for WWII
  Einstein convinces FDR to build the bomb
  Roosevelt asks Congress for $552 million for defense and demands assurances from Hitler and Mussolini that they will not attack
• Sports: First televised sporting event

Battle of River Plate in Americas, - Battle of Plate Fiver in South Atlantic is real action of war

East

Midwest

• Iowa: Speech pathologist Dr Wendell Johnson performs "Monster Experiment" at U of Iowa on 22 children by putting them under extreme pressure invoking heavy stuttering

South

West and Pacific

• California: The "El Cordonazo" tropical storm hits between Los Angeles and San Diego

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 803,528

Temples: 7

Other

• Liberty Jail purchased for Church
• Missionaries evacuate Germany, then all of Europe (some miraculously). Last ones arrive in U.S. Nov 6
• First Presidency delivers message on world peace