4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 87

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 65
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 63
Elisha Peck Jr. 73
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 68

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 41
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 38
Harry Chester Peterson 42
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 42

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 5
Peggy LaNae Peterson 1

General

Population: 2.39 Billion*

• Entertainment: Copeland composes Appalachian Spring
  Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra
  Writers include Stephen Vincent Benet, TS Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Ernie Pyle, Sartre, Irving Stone, Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie), Camus
  Artists include Feininger, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondriaan, Picasso, Rouault, Rivera
  Films include Henry V (Olivier) Les Enfants du Paradis
  Music includes Bartok, Aaron Copland, Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, Walter Piston, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland
• Finance: International Monetary Fund is founded - "Bretton Woods" agreement regulates market
• Food: Sunflower oil first used for margarine
• Medicine: Quinine synthesized
• Science: Avery MacLeod McCarty experiment identifies DNA as "transforming principle" in cell
  Schrodinger publishes about heredity
  DNA isolated as building blocks of genes
• Technology: Mark I computer invented
• Deaths: Edvard Munch, Vassili Kandinsky, British politician Stephen Milligan dies from autoerotic asphyxiation, Piet Mondriaan, Charles Dana Gibson (Gibson girl), Kenesaw Mountain Landis the baseball commissioner, Inventor Thomas Midgley Jr. strangles himself accidentally with own invention

Africa

• General: End of Italian East Africa
  France promises post-war independence to African colonies
• Egypt: Falciparun Malaria outbreak ends

Americas

• General: Early Mayan translation begins
• Argentina: Quake measures 7.8 killing 8-10,000
  Juan Perón meets Eva Duarte
• Canada: First non-stop flight from Britain
  Churchill and Roosevelt meet in Quebec
• Cuba: Hurricane
• Guatemala: First free presidential election
• Venezuela: Mt. Paricutin forms killing 3500

Asia

• General: Pacific front battles increase
• Burma: North cleared of Japanese
• China: Communists and Japan stop fighting
• India: Japanese invasion of India - sieges of Imphal and Kohima
  1376 dead in multiple explosions of weapons and mining supplies
• Japan: Fire balloon sent across Pacific toward United States
  Navy defeated by US in Battle of Leyte Gulf
  Prime Minister Tojo resigns
• Philippines: MacArthur returns to Philippines
  Battle of Leyte Gulf
  Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet caught in storm off Luzon Islands
  US invades
  Cyclone
  Quake measures 8.3 killing 1221 - tsunami follows
• Vietnam: Declares herself independent of France under Ho Chi Minh
  US takes Saigon

Europe

• General: Battle of The Bulge
  Russians capture 100k Germans at Minsk
  Petain imprisoned at fortress of Belfort
• Belgium: Liberation by Allies
• Bulgaria: Surrenders to Soviets
• Finland: Surrenders to Soviets
• France: D-Day landings of 130,000 troops in Normandy - Mulberry Harbor assembled off Normandy
  Germans driven out
  Paris liberated
  De Gaulle promises representative government - start of French Fourth Republic
• Germany: Americans reach German border
  USSR and West Allies meet in Berlin
  Bomb plot to assassinate Hitler fails
  800 flying fortresses drop 2k tons of bombs on Berlin
  German battleship Tirpitz bombed using 12,000 lb bombs – 1000 killed
  Rommel commits suicide
• Great Britain: V-1 missle (flying bomb) lands on England
  Heavy air raids on London
  British transport Khedive Ismail sunk killing 1271
  "Blackout" restrictions relaxed in Britain
  Ministry of National Insurance established in Britain
• Greece: Allied troops liberate
• Hungary: Russians enter - end of Horthy's dictatorship
• Italy: Allies enter Rome
  Vesuvius erupts
  American Fifth Army launches attack east of Cassino - Allied landings at Nettuno and Anzio, Leningrad relieved, - Monte Cassino monastery bombed
  British Eighth Army takes Florence
  Count Ciano the Fascist Foreign Minister executed on orders of his father-in-law Mussolini
  Victor Emmanuel III names Crown Prince Umberto the Lt.-General of the realm but retains the title of king
• Norway:: End of CHristian X as ruler of Norway and Iceland
• Poland: Soviets enter and Prime Minister Tojo resigns
  Warsaw second uprising crushed by Germans
  Surrenders to Soviets
  Russians at Brest-Litovsk (now Belarus)
• Romania: Surrenders to Soviets
• Soviet Union: Siege of Leningrad ends after 900 days
  Soviets conquer Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary and Romania
  Sebastopol liberated
  Russian offensives in the Ukraine and Crimea
  Churchill in Moscow
• Yugoslavia: Red Army retakes Crimea
  Soviet troops liberate Belgrade

Middle East

• Turkey: 7.5 quake

Pacific

• Guam: Americans capture island from Japanese
• Marshall Islands: US troops complete conquest
• Solomon Islands: US troops complete conquest

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected

General

• Entertainment: First network censorship – sound cut on "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me"
  DuMont Network goes on air – Paramount teams up but enterprise fails
• Finance: Cost of living rises 30% in US
• Military: Daily Telegraph crossword contains five key words from D-Day invation, including Utah, Omaha, mulberry, Neptune, and Overlord – codename for whole invasion... remarkable coincidence
  74 die when US Submarine USS Tang topedoes itself
• Politics: Early discussion on a United Nations
  African American Adam Clayton Powell begins 11 term career in House of Representatives
• Science: Enrico Fermi becomes American Citizen
  Enrico Fermi becomes American citizen
• Sports: Former baseball player Moe Berg made spy with job to kill German scientist Werner Heisenberg if Nazi nuke is developed
• Weather: Air Force plane flies into category 5 hurricane

East

• General: Hurricanes
• Connecticut: Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus fire in Hartford kills 165
• New York: Manhatten project Colonel Safford Warren injects plutonium into patients in Rochester
  Manhattan project puts uranium into "fluoridated" water system
  Dizzy Gillespie pioneers bebop jazz at Onyx Club
• Pennsylvania: Tornado crosses mountain defying scientific thought
• Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks conference

Midwest

• Illinois: University of Chicago infects psychotic patients with malaria
  Lab workers in MN and Chicago injects subjects with radioactive phosphorus
• Michigan: Microbiologist in Dearborn MI gives prisoners hepatitis
• Minnesota: Lab workers in MN and Chicago injects subjects with radioactive phosphorus
• Ohio: Tornado crosses mountain
  Explosion of East Ohio Gas Company in Cleveland kills at least 112

South

• Tennessee: Uranium pile built at Clinton
  Manhattan Project injects plutonium into soldiers
• West Virginia: Tornado crosses mountain

West and Pacific

• California: Port Chicago explosion N of San Francisco kills 320
• Utah: Geneva Steel opens
  Train wreck kills 50 in Bagley on Dec 31 as passenger train crashes into mail train
• Washington: New cyclotron built

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 954,004

Temples: 7

Other

• Church purchases Adam-Ondi-Ahman
• 100th anniversary of martyrdom
• Church publishes Church News for 70,000 Servicemen
• Committee on Publications organized
• YWMIA 75th anniversary
• Church purchases Adam ondi-Ahman
• FDR discusses genealogy and Mormons with Churchill
• George H. W. Bush meets LDS friend while serving on sub
• Genealogical Society of Utah changes name for universiality