4

Bernard Snow (II) 84 died
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 83

3

William Nephi Lowe 71
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 61
Charles Eben Snow 56 died
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 59
Martin Peterson 75 died
Elisha Peck Jr. 69
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 64

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 37
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 34
Harry Chester Peterson 38
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 38

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 1

General

Population: 2.30 Billion*

• Entertainment: Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Charlie Chaplin receives death threat from Hitler after release of The Great Dictator
  First Bugs Bunny cartoon
  Superman radio show debuts
  Glenn Miller performs
  Films include Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator (Chaplin), Rebecca (Hitchcock), Gaslight, Fantasia (Disney), Jud Suss (German anti-Jewish propaganda)
  Writers include Graham Greene, Eugene O'Neill, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, JM Keynes, CG Jung, George Santayana
  Walt Disney's Fantasia opens
  Music includes Irving Berlin, Stravinsky, Rodgers and Hart
  Artists include Kandinsky, Matisse, John Piper, Rex Whistler
  David Low's anti-Hitler cartoons
• Fashion: Stockings first made of nylon (see 1937)
• Medicine: Large-scale production of penicillin begins
• Military: Japan Germany and Italy sign military and economic pact - Japan joins Axis powers
• Science: 2.5 foot dragonfly wing from Permian discovered
  McMillan and Abelson discover neptunium
• Sports: Jack Dempsey retires from the ring
• Technology: Microwave radar invented
  First electron microscope
  New combustion chamber for jet engines designed
  Cavity magnetron invented
  Igor Sikorsky invents helicopter
• Weather: Start of period of global cooling according to NOAA through 1968
• Deaths: German chemist Carl Bosch, Lord Rothermere, Lord Tweedsmuir, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edouard Vuillard, Paul Klee, Chemist Carl Bosch, Neville Chamberlain

Royal Navy seeks French fleet in Oran,,

Africa

• General: British capture Italians in north
• Egypt: Italians drive into country

Americas

• General: War between Ecuador and Peru over Amazon region
• Canada: British Columbia Douglas fir felled measuring 417 feet
• Caribbean: US and Britain make "Destroyers for Bases" Deal allowing US bases in Caribbean
• Dominican Republic: U.S. ends "protector" status of Dominican Republic
• Mexico: Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City

Asia

• General: Japan declares "New Order" in South-East Asia
• Burma: Britain reopens Burma Road
• China: Japanese drop bags of plague-infested fleas over Ningbo and Quzhou in Zhejiang
• Indo-China: Japan's control extended
• Japan: Control extended over Indo-China
  Miyake erupts

Europe

• General: WWII
  Britian signs agreements with Polish government and free French under de Gaulle
  Hitler and Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass
• Albania: Italy invades
• Belgium: Surrender to Germans
• Crete: Lost to Britain as overcome
• Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovak National Committee in London recognized as provisional government
• Denmark: Germany invades
• Finland: Armistice signed with Soviet Union after suing for peace
  End of French Third Republic and start of Vichy France (war)
  Marshal Pétain signs armistice with Hitler and sets up Vichy government under German control
  General de Gaulle leads Free French from London
• France: Italy declares war
  Germany invades and British evacuate
  Lascaux caves discovered with paintings from 20k BC
• Germany: Hitler names Hermann Goering Reichs-Marschall and successor-designare
  Invasion of nearby countries
  War declared on Balkans
  1000 killed when German motorship Pionier strikes a mine
  German navy cruiser Bluchertorpedoed
  Höss (Hoess) takes control of Auschwitz and turns it into concentration camp
  First bomb dropped on Berlin kills only elephant in Berlin Zoo
  Germany intensifies U-boat warfare
• Great Britain: German attempts at sea-invasion fail
  Italy declares war
  German troops invade Channel Islands
  Battle of Britain - RAF defeats Luftwaffe
  Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister
  Britain alone stands against Germany
  Last execution at Tower of London of German spy
  British aircraft carrier Glorious sunk by Germans killing 1200
  British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley imprisoned
  Radar developed
  Sugar, bacon, and butter rationed
  Home Guard formed
  Churchill's "blood toil tears and sweat" speech
  British forces 340k evacuated from Dunkirk
  90 German bombers shot down over Britain
  Eden named British foreign secretary
  British Scientific Committee appointed
  George Cross instituted by King George VI
• Greece: Italy invades
• Italy: War declared on Britain and France
• Netherlands: Germany invades - DUtch surrenders
• Norway: Germany invades
• Romania: Germany and Italy invade
  7.4 quake in Vrancea
• Soviet Union: USSR annexes Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
  Germany declares war on Balkans
  Soviets occupy Baltic states
  Molotov visits Berlin
• Spain: End of Spanish Civil war

Middle East

• Turkey: Quake kills 50,000

Pacific

• General: Japan declares "New Order" in Pacific and Asia
• Australia: Start of immigration of non-English speaking people

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected over Republican Wendell Willkie

General

• Business: John L Lewis (anti-Roosevelt labor leader) resigns as head of CIO
• Entertainment: First radio broadcast of Metropolitan Opera
  Hattie McDaniel becomes first person of African descent to win an Oscar
  European composers move to US – including Schonberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Hindemith, Krenek, Milhaud, Martinu, Weill, Toch, Kalman, Benatzky, Abraham Stolz, and Oskar Straus
  Duke Ellington becomes popular composer and jazz pianist
  Popular songs include "You Are My Sunshine" "When You Wish upon a Star"
  WNBT first regular television station debuts
• Medicine: Smallpox eradicated in United States
  Dr. Charles Drew develops methods of storing plasma and transfusing blood
• Military: Selective Service Act passed (draft)
  US destroyers sold to Britain
• Science: Einstein becomes US citizen
• Technology: First successful helicopter flight in US
• Weather: End of US dustbowl
• Deaths: Stock market broker Livermore commits suicide

East

• Massachusetts: Bertrand Russell English philosopher and mathematician appointed to Harvard
• New Jersey: First electron microscope demonstrated in Camden
• New York: Color television demonstrated
  Gene Kelly begins dancing on Broadway

Midwest

• General: Armistice Day Blizzard kills 149 in Great Lakes region

South

• General: Deep freeze
• Alabama: Ice skating as deep freeze hits
• Florida: Frank Lloyd Wright creates Southern College in Lakeland

West and Pacific

• California: 7.1 quake kills 9
  Giant cyclotron built at the U of CA
• Utah: Actor Merlin Olsen born in Logan UT
• Washington: Tacoma-narrows bridge "Galloping Gertie" becomes unstable in high winds and drops

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 862,664

Temples: 7

Other

• Mormon Battallion Monument erected in San Diego
• Hugh B Brown named LDS Serviceman coordinator
• Missionaries evacuated from Pacific and South Africa
• As decade progresses US gradually accepts LDS chaplains
• Hoover telegraphs President Grant to thank Church for food drive