3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 74

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 52
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 49
Harry Chester Peterson 53
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 53

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 16
Peggy LaNae Peterson 12

General

Population: 2.78 Billion

• Business: Universal Copyright Convention takes effect
• Entertainment: Writers include Anouilh, TE Lawrence (posth), Sartre, Agatha Christie, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), Arthur Miller, J Lawrence and RE Lee (Inherit the Wind), C Hoffmann (Shakespeare = Marlowe theory), Walter Lippmann
  Artists include Salvador Dali, Kokoschka
  Musicians include Werner Egk, Prokofiev, Cole Porter
  Films include "Richard III" (Laurence Olivier)
• Medicine: Polio vaccine pronounced safe
  Dorothy Hodgkin discovers liver extract for treating pernicious anemia (B-12)
• Politics: NATO joined by Greece Turkey and West Germany
  Afri-Asian conference
  Soviet-led Warsaw Pace opposes NATO
• Religion: Papal Encyclical of Musicae sacrae
• Science: Frederick Sanger determines molecular structure of insulin
  Bundy Hall Strong and Wentorf report on artificial creation of diamonds
• Technology: Velcro patented
• Deaths: Albert Einstein, TE Lawrence, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, Theater director Margo Jones killed from carabon tetrachloride fumes from cleaned carpet

Africa

• General: Bandung Conference among 29 Asian and African nations
• Egypt: Nasser internationalizes Suez Canal

Americas

• General: Caribbean hurricane kills 500
  Hurricane Hunter plane crashes while investigating Hurricane Janet in Caribbean
• Argentina: Juan Peron falls from power - exiled with general strike and armed rebellion - army rules
• Mexico: Tampico hurricane kills 200

Asia

• General: Chou En-lai visits Rangoon
• India: Monsoon floods
• Indonesia: Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM) in Indonesia
• Malay: Communist rebellions quashed
• South Vietnam: President Ngo Dinh Diem rejects reunification
• Vietnam: Reunification rejected

Europe

• General: Greece, Turkey and W Germany join NATO
  Warsaw Pact formed in opposition to NATO
  Picasso exhibition in European cities
  Italy, West Germany, and France establish European Union
• Austria: End of Allied occupation - Vienna Treaty restores independence
• Cyprus: Greek Cypriot organization begins terrorist activities
• East Germany: The rebuilt E German State Opera House opens
• France: 83 die in a disaster at the Le Mans car race
• Great Britain: Winston Churchill resigns and is succeeded by Anthony Eden
  Railroad and dock strikes
  London airport buildings designed by Frederick Gibberd
  Commercial TV begins broadcasting
  Duke of Edinburgh announces award scheme for young people
• Iceland: Independence from Denmark
• Ireland: First sighting of Monster of Lough Shanakever – donkeylike
• Italy: Giovanni Gronchi elected President
• Soviet Union: Malenkov forced to resign and Bulganin leads, although Khrushchev the Communist Party secretary has real power
  Soviet leaders visit Yugoslavia and East Germany
  US and USSR announce they will launch earth satellites in the International Geophysical Year (1957-8)
• Switzerland: Peaceful use of atomic energy discussed at Geneva conference
• West Germany: End of occupation
  Deutsche Lufthansa Airlines resumes service

Middle East

• Iran: Shah of Persia and Empress Soraya visit Germany
• Iraq: Baghdad Pact signed by many middle-east countries
• Israel: David Ben-Gurion returns as Prime Minister
  Raids on border with Jordan increase
  Fighting
• Jordan: Raids on border increase
• Pakistan: Monsoons kill 1700
  Kalat absorbed
• Syria: Raids on border with Israel

Pacific

• Australia: Flooding

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower

General

• Business: AFL and CIO merge – new president George Meany
• Culture: Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights protests - US Civil Rights movement begins
  "Society for Human Ecology" made from LSD movement
  Number of public libraries in US tops 8400
• Entertainment: Academy Award nominee James Dean killed in car accident
  Disney television shows Davy Crockett
  Peter Pan broadcast live and in color
  Elvis signs with RCA records
  Dorothy Dandridge nominated for best actress
• Law: Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas rules segregation illegal last year - integration begins
• Politics: Eisenhower has heart attack
• Sports: "Sugar" Ray Robinson wins world boxing championship
• Technology: Automatically generated power first used in the US
  USS Nautilus becomes first true submarine

East

• General: Atlanic Coast hurricanes kill 310
• Connecticut: Two hurricanes
• Massachusetts: Ultra high frequency waves produced at MIT
• New York: Children begin attending school at Love Canal above chemical dump
  "The New Decade" Exhibition of Modern Art
  Only win of Brooklyn Dodgers in World Series
• Pennsylvania: 38 vacationers killed in PA from hurricane Connie

Midwest

• Kansas: Tornado in Kansas and other states kill 111

South

• Alabama: Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back - four days later Martin Luther King begins Civil Rights campaign
• Louisiana: US Army exposes mental patients at Tulane to LSD and other drugs
• North Carolina: Hurricane Connie then Hurricane Diane dumps 19 inches of rain

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Radioactive iodine given to healthy Inuits
• California: Disneyland opens

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,357,274

Temples: 9

9. Bern, Switzerland

Other

• Missionary work among Jews (until 1959)
• Church College of Hawaii opened
• North Far East and South Far East missions organized
• Eisenhower dines with President McKay
• President McKay visits South Pacific and New Zealand
• Church Building Committee organized
• Tabernacle Choir tours Europe
• Announcement for campus wards and stakes for students