4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 90

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 68
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 66
Elisha Peck Jr. 76
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 71

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 44
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 41
Harry Chester Peterson 45
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 45

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 8
Peggy LaNae Peterson 4

General

Population: 2.45 Billion*

• Archaeology: Francis Steele reconstructs laws of Hammurabi from Nippur excavations
• Entertainment: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank published
  Tennessee Williams publishes A Streetcar Named Desire
  Albert Camus publishes The Plague
  Writers include JB Priestley, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, John Steinbeck
  Art includes Le Corbusier, Kokoschka, Matisse, death of French painter Pierre Bonnard
  Music includes Carl Orff, Gian Carlo Menotti
  Maria Callas makes her debut in opera
• Fashion: Christian Dior introduces his post-war fashions in Paris including long-skirted "new look"
• Politics: Doomsday clock created
  Cold War begins
• Science: X-Ray photos of proteins
  Willard Libby develops radiocarbon dating
  PMS Blackett advances theory that all massive rotating bodies are magnetic
• Technology: Shockley Bardeen and Brattain invent the transistor
  Charles Yeager surpasses speed of sound
  Edwin Land demonstrates Polaroid camera
• Deaths: Al Capone, Henry Ford, Max Planck, Ettore Bugatti, Willa Cather, English mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, Chemist Frederick G Hopkins

Africa

• Egypt: Cholera

Americas

• General: Truman announces doctrine of Communist containment
• Nicaragua: Cerro Negro erupts
• Peru: Kon-Tiki raft sails from mainland to Marquesa Islands

Asia

• Burma: Independence from Britain and leaves Commonwealth - renamed Myanmar
• Netherlands-Indonesian union formed
• China: US withdraws
• India: Independence with Nehru president
  Indian Princely States merges with British India
  British India partitioned to India and Pakistan - Kashmir state (Indian Princely States) ceded to India
• Indonesia: Unites States of Indonesia established
  Cheribon Agreement between Dutch and Indonesians
• Japan: Democratic constitution made
• Philippines: Becomes republic

Europe

• General: East Europe comes under Communist power
  US attempts to stall Communist expansion in Europe
  Marshal Plan for European recovery announced
  Belgium Netherlands and Luxembourg ratify Benelux customs union
• Czechoslovakia: Ex-President Tiso of Slovakia executed
• France: Vincent Auriol elected President
  Peace treaties signed in Paris with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland
• Germany: Walter Felsenstein becomes head of Komische Opera in Berlin
  Black market prices rise in Berlin
  End of independent German state of Prussia
  Four-power conference on Germany fails to reach agreement
• Great Britain: Coal industry nationalized
  Foundation of Edinburgh Festival
  British establish atomic pile
  Princess Elizabeth heir to English throne marries Philip Mountbatten duke of Edinburgh
  Advisory Committee on Scientific Policy set up
  British racing driver John Cobb establishes ground record of 394.196 mph
  Most severe winter since 1894
• Iceland: Eruption
• Italy: Post-war treaty strips Italy of new lands
  Start of Free Territory of Trieste to 1954
• Norway: Explorer Thor Heyerdahl launches Kon Tiki expedition from Peru to Polynesia
• Poland: Cominform established at Warsaw conference
• Romania: King Michael abdicates
• Soviet Union: Kremlin establishes puppet regiemes
  Famine
  Siberian meteorite strike raises huge cloud
  AK 47 Kalashnikov rifle developed from assault rifle of 1944
• Spain: Pablo Casals vows not to play in public as long as Franco is in power
• Yugoslavia: Cominform (Commie Info Bureau) set up at Belgrade

Middle East

• Pakistan: Independence from Britain
• Palestine: Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Wadi Qumran
  Partitioning of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states rejected by Arab States
  Israel declared a state

Pacific

• General: Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl makes Kon Tiki voyage to Polynesia
• New Zealand: Ballantyne's Department Store fire kills 41

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman

General

• Business: Henry Ford's death leave inheritance of $652 million
• Crime: Death of Al Capone
• Entertainment: "Buffalo" Bob Smith premiers Howdy Doody
  Music includes Bing Crosby, Count Basie
• Law: Everson v. Board of Education uses the "Separation of Church and State" in schools
  US Congress passes Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto restricting rights of labor unions
  Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
• Military: CIA begins experimenting with LSD as a weapon
  US Navy experiments with "truth serums" to 1953
  Over one million veterans enroll in college under GI Bill of Rights
• Politics: Truman Doctrine announced pledging aid for resisting Communism
  Marshall Plan - Aid to assist recovery in western Europe proposed
• Science: GE scientist seeds clouds with silver iodide
• Sports: Jackie Robinson plays pro baseball for Dodgers breaking color barrier
  First televised world series
• Technology: First microwave sold in US
• Travel: American aviator Odom flies around world
  US airplane with CHuck Yeager first flies at supersonic speeds
  Howard Hunt flies Hughes' "Spruce Goose"
• Deaths: Collyer brothers = compulsive hoarders crushed under mountain of objects

East

• General: Yale's reptiles mural influences thought for over a decade suggesting slow dinosaurs
• New York: Hooker Electrochemical Co begins dumping in Love Canal
  Dizzy Gillespie debuts with Charlie Parker at Carnegie Hall
  Blizzard leaves almost 28 inches

Midwest

• General: 8 tornadoes in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas kill 169

South

• Texas: French freighter carrying ammonium nitrate explodes causing chain reaction with butane tanks and Monsanto chemical plants on docks killing 500+
• Oklahoma: Woodward tornado rated F5 - deadliest

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 7.2 Quake
• California: Hollywood list of Communist sympathizers compiled, including over 300 - Ten Hollywood people refuse to testify and are blacklisted and jailed
• New Mexico: Unknown flying object crashes in Roswell creating UFO interests
NM
• Washington: Unknown flying objects spotted in Cascades before Roswell

President

Pres: George A. Smith

Membership: 1,016,170

Temples: 8

Other

• The Church reaches 1 million members
• Revision of earlier translations of scriptures undertaken
• 100 years in Utah - reenactments - Truman sends kudos to Saints on centennial
• This is the Place monument dedicated
• 75 tons of potatoes donated to Germans
• Fast set aside to help Europeans
• 1 million visit Temple Square
• European microfilming undertaken
• Missionary program revitalized after the war
• Indian Student Placement started
• Japan mission reopens with former servicemen the first missionaries
• Church gets permission to microfilm much of Europe's records
• Days of '47 Parade begins