3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 72

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Earl Franklin Lowe 50
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 47
Harry Chester Peterson 51
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 51

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 14
Peggy LaNae Peterson 10

General

Population: 2.68 Billion

• Business: Bich invents Bic pens
• Culture: Alfred C Kinsey publishes regarding sex and human females
• Entertainment: Writers include Winston Churchill, Ian Fleming (Casino Royale), TS Eliot, Arthur Miller (The Crucible), Graham Greene, Archibald MacLeish, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, Leon Uris, Peter Ustinov, BF Skinner, Simone de Beauvoir
  Artists include Chagall, Picasso exhibition in Rome
  Films include I Vitelloni (Fellini), Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn), From Here to Eternity, The Robe, Julius Caesar
  Most US movie theaters adapted for Cinemascope film
  Music includes Leonard Bernstein, Ernest Bloch, William Schuman
  "Kismet" musical based on Borodin's music for "Prince Igor"
• Medicine: Lung cancer attributed to cigarette smoking
  Penicillin becomes widespread in the use of infection
  Salk presents Polio vaccine
• Politics: "Doomsday Clock" moved to two minutes to midnight
  End of Korean War
• Science: Watson and Crick DNA model with Rosalind Franklin's x-rays
  Nobel prize to Lipman and Krebs for work on living cells
  Mazel discovers Cave Cougnac near Gourdon containing prehistoric paintings
  W Le Gross Clark proves Piltdown Man a hoax
  Creation of amino acide by Miller and Urey in electrical tube
  Watson and Crick publish, and Rosalind Franklin publishes
  Houtermans and Patterson publish on age of earth estimating over 4.5 billion years
• Sports: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Nokay first reach Everest summit
• Technology: Rocket-powered plane flies at 1600 mph (nearly mach 2)
• Deaths: Sergei Prokofiev, Edwin Hubble, Joseph Stalin, Eugene O'Neill, Jim Thorpe, Jockey Frank Hayes dies during race but horse wins, Robert A. Millikan, Senator Robert Taft, Dylan Thomas (39), Lee Shubert, John Marin, Eric Mendelsohn, Mary of Teck (Queen Mum)

Africa

• Egypt: Britain forced to flee Suez Canal
  Independence and end of monarchy
  Gamal Abder Nasser serves as Minister of Interior under Muhammad Naguib who is voted dictatorial powers in Egypt for three years and republic proclaimed
• Kenya: Jomo Kenyatta and five other Kikuyu convicted of managing Mau Mau - imprisoned
• Rhodesia: Unification with Nyasaland to try and form interracial state tp 1964

Americas

• Bermuda: Conference of British, Americans and French with Eisenhower, Churchill, and Laniel

Asia

• Cambodia: End of French Colonial rule over Cambodia – independence to 1970
• Japan: Typhoon kills 1300
• Laos: Viet Minh invade Laos
• Nepal: Edmund Hilary and Tensing Norgay reach top of Everest
  Austro-German ecpedition climbs Nanga Parbat in Himalayas
• North Vietnam: French occupy Dien Bien Phu
• South Korea: Armistice signed at Panmunjom ending Korean War
• Vietnam: Typhoon

Europe

• General: Storm and flood on North Sea
• Austria: Protest strike against occupation
• France: Joseph Laniel elected Premier and Rene Coty elected president
  Murder of British Drummond family at Provence France by farmer Gaston Dominici
• Great Britain: Elizabeth II crowned
  Mary of Teck (Queen Mom) dies
  John Reginald Halliday Christie hung in the UK for killing at least five
  Churchill visits Eisenhower
  Churchill named Knight of the Order of the Garter
  London Stock Exchange opens public galleries
• Greece: Quake kills 476 main 7.2 – 113 tremors over 5 days
• Soviet Union: Stalin dies and Malenkov serves as Premier while Molotov serves as foreign minister
  Nikita Khrushchev leads to 1964
  Hydrogen bomb developed
  Relationship with Israel temporarily severed
  LP Beria dismissed and executed
• Sweden: Dag Hammarskjold (SWE) elected Secretary-General of the UN
• Switzerland: Fourth International Astronautic Congress in Zurich
• West Germany: High-density plastics invented
• Yugoslavia: New constitution proclaimed - Marshal Tito elected president
  Tito visits London

Middle East

• Iran: CIA sponsors coup and reinstates Reza Khan Pahlavi as Shah
  Premier Mosaddegh arrested and sentenced for three years
• Israel: New Prime Minister - Ben-Gurion resigns – Moshe Sharett elected

Pacific

• New Zealand: Mt. Ruapelu erupts killing 152 when bridge washes out and lake overflows

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman
Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated

General

• Crime: Rosenbergs (atomic spies) executed
• Energy: States get title to offshore oil
• Entertainment: The Crucible ties witch hunts to McCarthyism
  Julius LaRosa fired on Arthur Godfrey show live on air and Godfrey's popularity drops
  Lucille Ball's pregnancy shown on "I Love Lucy"
  Loretta Young abandons film for television
  Hemmingway wins Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea
  
• Finance: Price controls lifted
• Medicine: Children blistered with cantharide as part of study
  Newborns injected with radioactive iodine
• Military: CIA stockpiles toxins and develops assassination tools under MKNAOMI
  MKULTRA program at CIA starts studies on LSD and also sex resulting in one suicide – files later destroyed
  CIA begins project MKDELTA to use biochemicals to harass discredit and disable
  Korean conflict ends
  Nuremberg Code established for Department of Defense
• Politics: Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare created
  Adenauer visits NY and London
• Religion: Stampede in Church from false shouts of "fire" kills 53
• Science: Oppenheimer investigated by Government because of opposition to hydrogen bomb
• Sports: Roy Campanella African-American catcher Roy Campanella of the Dodgers receives second MVP

East

• Massachusetts: Tornadoes including worst New England tornado in 75 years in Worcester
  Patients injected with uranium – Manhattan Project
• New York: Hooker Electrochemical sells Love Canal area to Niagara School Board
  evere cold wave as temps reach -53
  10 days of smog kill 200+
  High oxygen given to premature infants in Brooklyn causing blindness

Midwest

• Iowa: Pregnant women given radioactive iodine – infants later have thyroid biopsies
• Michigan: Killer tornadoes in Flint
  Oral radioactive iodine given to premature babies in Detroit
  Eero Saarinen wins award for design of General Motors Tech Center

South

• Arkansas: Winthrop Rockefeller establishes Winrock enterprises atop Petit Jean Mountain
• Oklahoma: Tornadoes
• Texas: Killer tornadoes including Waco

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Cosmic ray observatory erected on Mt. Wrangell
• California: Fashion models in San Francisco organize union
• Washington: Radioactive iodine and xenon dropped over Hanford

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,246,362

Temples: 8

Other

• Returning missionaries no longer report to General Authorities
• Church School System announced
• First broadcast of Conference on TV outside Intermountain area
• Church Education System formalized