4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 91

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 69
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 67
Elisha Peck Jr. 77
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 72

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 45
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 42
Harry Chester Peterson 46
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 46

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 9
Peggy LaNae Peterson 5

General

Population: 2.48 Billion*

• Entertainment: Stravinski's Mass composed
  135 million paperback books sold during year
  Artists include Jackson Pollock, Henry Moore, Lyonel Feininger
  Music includes Olivier Messiaen, Britten, Arnold Schonberg, Werner Egk, Richard Strauss, Cole Porter (Kiss Me Kate)
  Films include Hamlet (Olivier), Oliver Twist, Macbeth (Orson Welles)
  Writers include WH Auden, TS Eliot, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, Norman Mailer (The Naked and the Dead), James A Michener, Thornton Wilder, Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), Tennessee Williams, Sartre, Jean Cocteau, Dwight D Eisenhower, Churchill
• Politics: UN accepts Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by 48 countries in UN General Assembly
  Churchill made Honorary Academican Extraordinary
• Science: Ukranian physicist Gamrow with Alpher and Herman of the US propose Big Bang Theory
  Lajos Janossy writes about cosmic rays
  "Steady State" theory for the universe proposed by Bondi Gold and Hoyle
  Leakey finds proconsul skull
  Aureonycon and chloromycetin prepared
  Charlotte Auerbach studies science of chemogenetics
• Technology: Long-playing record developed
  Uranium price rises to 1600 per ton
  Atomic clock invention becomes first accurate time measurement
  Transistor developed by Bell Telephone Company
• Deaths: Babe Ruth, Czech salesman Eduard Benes, Mohandas Gandhi, Czech statesman Jan Masaryk, General John J Pershing, Death of DW Griffith, Arshile Gorky, Orville Wright, Italian-German composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Flooding in Fuzhou,

Africa

• Egypt: Gaza strip retained
• Rhodesia: Apartheid for Dutch settlers
• South Africa: Afrikaner National Party wins power promoting apartheid

Americas

• General: Organization of American States (OAS) propotes security in Central America
• Canada: Vancouver B.C. flood
• Chile: Villarica erupts
• Costa Rica: Army of National Liberation forms government

Asia

• Burma: Independence from Britain
• Ceylon: (Sri Lanka) Independence from Britain
• China: Split between Communists and Nationalists
  Flooding
  Chiang Kai-shek reelected president by Nanking Assembly
• India: Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi killed by Hindu fanatic
  British India becomes India and Pakistan
• Malay: Communist rebellion called Malayan Emergency to 1960
• Manchuria: Starvation
• North Korea: Founded from divided Korea
• Pakistan: British India becomes India and Pakistan
• South Korea: Founded from divided Korea

Europe

• General: Marshall Plan enacted through 1951
  NATO formed
  Communists take power in Eastern Europe
• Czechoslovakia: Communist coup – Klement Gottwald elected President
  People's Republic formed
• Germany: Economy slumps
  West Berlin unites
  Soviets blockade Berlin and airlift begins
  Ferdinand Porsche builds "Porsche 356" starting empire
  Ernst Reuter a social-Democrat elected Mayor of Berlin
• Great Britain: Healthcare nationalized
  British Citizenship Act grants passports to all Commonwealth citizens
  First port radar system introduced in Liverpool
  Attlee apponts Linskey tribunal to investigate charges of corruption against British ministers and officials
  British railroads nationalized
  End of British bread rationing, British Electricity Authority established
  London Olympiad – Fanny Blankers Koen wins four golds for Netherlands
• Netherlands: Churchill chairs Hague Congress for European unity
  Queen Wilhelmina abdicates and daughter Juliana rules
  World Council of Churches organized in Amsterdam
• Switzerland: First World Health Assembly meets in Geneva - WHO (WOrld Health Organization) established
• Yugoslavia: Expulsion from Cominform as Tito accused of crimes against Communism

Middle East

• Israel: Britain ends rule in Palestine
  David Ben-Gurion becomes Prime Minister and Weizmann President as independence proclaimed
  Israel attacked by Arab countries
  Count Folkr Bernadotte the UN mediator in Palestine assassinated by Jewish terrorists
  World Jewish Congress meets
• Jordan: Transjordan renamed

Pacific

• New Zealand: Two volcanoes erupt simultaneously

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman elected over Dewey

General

• Business: Month-long coal strike in US
  Injunction prevents rail-strike
  First escalator clause (basing wage increases on cost-of-living index) at GM
• Culture: Kinsey publishes regarding sexual behavior in males
  Start of 8 years of hiccups from Jack O'Leary
• Entertainment: "The White House Papers of Harry L Hopkins" published
  Both Ed Sullivan and Milton Berle appear on television
• Law: McCollum v. Board of Education deals with First Amendment separation clause
• Military: Selective Service Act in US provides for military draft
  Experimental study "Project F" published detailing health dangers of fluoride – pulled for "National Security" reasons
• Politics: US Congress passes Marshall Plan giving 17 billion in aid for Europe
  Truman recognizes state of Israel
  LBJ elected to senate by fraud of 202 identical ballots, alphabetized… one by a man dead 44 years
  Strom Thurmond runs for president as States' Rights Democrat
  Margaret Chase Smith becomes first female senator
  Federal Rent Control bill passes
• Sports: "Citation" wins Triple Crown with four-time winner jockey Eddie Arcaro
  Joe Louis retires
• Technology: Mestral invents Velcro
  Peter Goldmark and team develops LP records

East

• New York: Idlewild Airport on Long Island dedicated (renamed Kennedy in 1963)

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• General: Columbia River Flood in Washington and Oregon kills 51
• Alaska: 31 inches of snow falls in Juneau in 24 hours
• California: Mt. Palomar telescope dedicated
• New Mexico: Test of rocket missiles to height of 78 miles
• Utah: Television programming begins
  Truman visits Utah

President

Pres: George A. Smith

Membership: 1,041,970

Temples: 8

Other

• Rick's College becomes 4-year school
• Membership grown among Native Americans
• Truman recognizes state of Israel – partial fulfillment of Orson Hyde's dedicatory prayer
• Temple Square reaches 1 million visitors
• Hill Cumorah Pageant resumes
• Mission presidents worldwide report increasing numbers of baptisms - building program started
• Tabernacle Choir performs 1,000th broadcast