4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 94

3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 70
Elisha Peck Jr. 80 died
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 75

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 48
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 45
Harry Chester Peterson 49
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 49

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 12
Peggy LaNae Peterson 8

General

Population: 2.59 Billion

• Entertainment: Art includes Lipchitz paints Birth of Venus
  Menotti composes Amahl and the Night Visitors, Stravinski composes The Rake's Progress
  Writers include Robert Frost, Conrad Richter, Carl Sandburg, Nicholas Monsarrat, JD Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye), Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny), Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, William Faulkner, James Jones (From Here to Eternity), Tennessee Williams, Rachel Carson
  Artists include Salvador Dali, Picasso, Matisse
  Frank Lloyd Wright designs
  Films include The African Queen, An American in Paris (Gene Kelly), Viva Zapata, A Streetcar Named Desire (Brando)
  Music includes Stravinsky, Rodgers and Hammerstein (The King and I), Gian Carlo Menotti
  B.B. King releases first hit
• Finance: Treaty of Paris 1951 establishes European Steel and Coal Community
• Medicine: J Andre Thomas devises heart-lung machine for operations
  Yellow fever vaccine
  Woman survives body temp of 64.4 degrees, but with amputations
  Gregory Pincus develops oral contraceptive
• Politics: NATO formed
• Science: McClintock describes "jumping" genes
  Krilium developed from acrylonitrile for use in fertilization
  McMillan and Seaborg win Nobel Prize for discovery of plutonium
• Technology: UNIVAC computer created
  Dacron suits introduced
  Fred Waller invents Cinerama
• Transportation: Charles F Blair flies solo over North Pole
• Deaths: William Randolph Hearst, Arnold Schonberg, Sinclair Lewis, Mary Hardy Reeser spontaneously combusts, Arnold Schonberg, Huddie Ledbetter (folk singer and composer)

Gordion the Phrygian capital from 4000 to 3000 BC excavated,

Africa

• Comoro: Tornado kills 500
• Egypt: Withdrawal from agreement on Suez Canal - British troops occupy
• Libya: Independence starts three decades of new independent trends

Americas

• Argentina: Peron reelected
• Brazil: Epidemic
• Jamaica: Hurricane kills 154

Asia

• General: Colombo plan for development of south Asia
• Japan: Full peace declared with all countries but USSR
• Korea: Panmunjeom becomes site of Korean War truce talks
• Manchuria: Flooding
• Papua New Guinea: Mt. Lamington erupts killing 3-6000
• Philippines: Hibok Hibok erupts
• South Korea: N Korean forces break through at 38th parallel – take Seoul and reject American truce offers – Seoul retaken – - Gerneral MacArthur relieved of Far East command – new N Korean offensive – UN forces capture "Heartbreak Ridge" north of Yangoo
• Tibet: Allegiance to China reinstated
  Chinese Communists occupy

Europe

• General: Forerunner of European Market with Schuman Plan
  Adenauer visits Paris Rome and London
  Killer avalanches in the Alps
  End of Marshal Plan for post-war recovery
• Austria: Matisse completed Venice Chapel
• Belgium: King abdicates
• Czechoslovakia: Communist Party purged
• France: Record of two women staying near Dieppe France heard residual sounds of D-Day – timeline matched official records nearly exactly
• Great Britain: Winston Churchill re-elected Prime Minister
  British diplomats and spies for USSR Burgess and Maclean escape to USSR
  Foundation stone of British National Theater laid in London
  Otto Dix, Gerald Barry and Hugh Casson create Festival of Britain
  Basil Spence designs new Coventry Cathedral
  Film Censors introduce "X Certificate" classification
  Robert Matthew builds Royal Festival Hall in London
• Ireland: De Valera returns to power
• Italy: Moussadeq becomes Iranian prime minister and nationalizes oil industry
• West Germany: Death of Crown Prince William of Prussia – son of Wilhelm
  Admitted to Council of Europe

Middle East

• Iran: Mossadegh becomes Prime Minister and nationalizes oil
• Israel: Ben Gurion's new government dissolved and new coalition formed
• Jordan: King Abdullah assassinated in Jerusalem
• Turkey: Quake

Pacific

• General: ANZUS alliance between Australia New Zealand and the US for defensive treaty

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman

General

• Crime: Rosenbergs convicted of espionage and confederate Morton Sobell sentenced to 30 years imprisonment
• Entertainment: Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire
  The King and I and West Side Story open on Broadway
  The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger published
  Nationwide TV first started with Edward R Murrow "See it Now" series – shows both coasts simultaneously
  Top television includes Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, I Love Lucy, The Red Skelton Show
• Law: 22nd Amendment limitss presidency to two terms
• Medicine: Polio outbreak
  Researchers withhold insulin from diabetics to observe effects
  Cancer patients injected with radiation as part of Air Force experiments
• Military: H-bomb announced
  Start of CIA experiments of LSD on agents – known as project MK-ULTRA
  US Navy renames LSD experiments from Bluebird to Artichoke
• Sports: Sugar Ray Robinson becomes World Middleweight Champion
  Hank Marino elected American Bowler of the Half Century
• Technology: Color tv introduced to US
  Televisions in US number 15 million
  First US nuclear power stations
• Deaths: death of JS Coxey US businessman who led "army" to Washington to protest unemployment

East

• New York: Frank Lloyd Wright designs Friedman House
  Marcel Breuer designs dormitory at Vassar
• Massachusetts: Hiroshima survivor Shigeki Tanaka wins Boston Marathon
• Washington DC: US Army contaminates two locations with a bacteria targeted toward people of African descent

Midwest

• Illinois: Chicago temps fall to 11 below and drunk woman fell asleep outside with blood in arms and legs freezing solid and super-low pulse and heartbeat - - she lives but legs and all but one finger amputated – lived to 1974
  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designs Lake Shore Drive apartment building in Chicago
• Nebraska: Bean found embedded in unbroken chicken egg following tornado

South

• Georgia: Mass poisoning in Atlanta GA of moonshine spiked with methyl alcohol – 433 sick and 39 die
• Tennessee: Major storm hits Nashville

West and Pacific

• California: Peace treaty with Japan signed in San Francisco
• Hawaii: Quake
• Idaho: Electric power produced from atomic energy at Arcon
• Nevada: Atomic testing begins
• Utah: Charles Manson arrested for theft in Beaver

President

Pres: George A. Smith died
Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,147,157

Temples: 8

Other

• US armed forces allow LDS dogtags
• Call for 70s to be missionaries as numbers reduced due to Korean War
• President McKay attends White House conference and have brief visit with Truman
• LDS woman appointed treasurer – Ivy Baker Priest