5

Susan Coons (Killian) 82 dies

4

Bernard Snow (II) 64
John Sylvester Perry 68
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 63
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 69
Lawson Green Wilson 73

3

William Nephi Lowe 51
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 41
Charles Eben Snow 36
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 39
Martin Peterson 55
Elisha Peck Jr. 49
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 44

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 17
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 14
Harry Chester Peterson 18
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 18

General

Population: 1.89 Billion*

• Entertainment: Writers include Sinclair Lewis, Wilfred Owen (Poems), Sherwood Anderson, Agatha Christie (among earliest), Colette, F Scott Fitzgerald, Zona Gale, John Galsworthy, Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, AA Milne, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, John Reed (American communist), HG Wells, Carl G Jung, Bertrand Russell, Geroge Santayana
  Time and Tide publication appears
  Art includes Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger
  Music includes Franz Lehar, Maurice Ravel, Oskar Straus, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst (The Planets)
  Popular musicians include Al jolson, Ted Lewis, Art Hickman
  Films include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Golem, Pollyanna (Mary Pickford), Cesare Borgia – Marcel Duchamp makes his first abstract movie
• Medicine: End of Spanish Flu pandemic
  Life expectancy of humans reaches 50 years (some goldfish life 50 in the wild)
• Politics: League of Nation begins from Treaty of Versailles
  Treaty of Berlin brings separate peace between GER and USA
  Former German territories in the Pacific are mandated to Australia, Britain and Japan by the League of Nations
• Religion: Joan of Arc canonized
• Science: Cushing improves brain surgery
  Eddington publishes about space time and gravity
  Raschig process uses HCl for chlorination of benzene
  Rorschach develops inkblot test
  Wolf shows true structure of Milky Way and photographs asteroids
• Sports: William Tilden begins 5-year domination of tennis
  Codona becomes first man to perform triple somersault in air
• Technology: Flettner invents rotor ship
  Thompson patents Thompson sub-machine (Tommy) gun
  Marconi opens first public broadcasting station
• Deaths: Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, Shortstop Ray Chappie Chapman dies after being hit in temple with ball, German painter Max Klinger, Philanthropist Jacob Schiff, Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, Swedish impressionist Anders Zorn, English painter Briton Riviere, Admiral John Fisher, Empress Eugenie of France, Sculptor Max Klinger, German philosopher Wilhelm Wundt, German composer Max Bruch

Africa

• General: Latin American countries call on League of Nations to settle disputes, but fails
  German colonies mandated to Britain, Belgium, France, and South Africa
  Drought at the horn for three years
• Kenya: British and Indians increase settlement in Kenya

Americas

• General: Latin American countries call on League of Nations to settle disputes, but fails
  Convention of Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica
• Chile: Alessandri elected president
• Mexico: President Caranza of Mexico assassinated – succeeded by Adolfo de la Huerta
  End of revolution as Obregón elected president

Asia

• China: Archaeological digs unveil the Shang Dynasty
  Kansu landslides caused by 8.6 quake kill 180,000 - 200,000
  Drought in China
• India: Mahatma Gandhi takes control of Indian National Congress - leads struggle for independence
• Japan: Acquisition of former German colonies
• Mongolia: Expulsion of Chinese

Europe

• General: War between Poland and Soviet Union
  War between Greece and Turkey
  Treaty of Rapallo between Italy and Yugoslavia
  Treaty of St. Germain comes into force
  The Little Entente of Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia and Romania formed
• Austria: Hitler announces 25-point plan at Munich
  Unemployment insurance introduced
  New Austrian constitution comes into force
• Belgium: Antwerp Olympics
  Alliance with France
• France: Alliance with Belgium
  Visitors to Dadaist Art expo in Cologne allowed to smash paintings
  Water skiing started
  Paul Deschanel becomes president
  Clemenceay resigns – Millerand takes over as Premier
• Germany: Weimar Republic established - failure of opponents to overthrow
  Communist revolutions aborted
  Otto Meissner head of the office of the President
  Max Liebermann elected President of the Prussian Academy of Arts
  Christmas Radio Concert
  Hugo Stinnes begins to organize colossal trust
  Hitler joins National Socialist German Workers' Party
  Wolfgang Kapp stages short-lived monarchist coup in Berlin
• Great Britain: George V unveils the Cenotaph
  Government of Ireland Act passed by Parliament
  Royal Institute of International Affairs founded in London
  Unemployment insurance introduced
  Church of Wales disestablished
  Conscroption abolished
• Greece: War between Greece and Turkey
  King Constantine returns to Athens
  Camille Saint-Saens Festival in Athens
  Alexander I King of the Hellenes dies of monkey bites kept in royal gardens
• Hungary: Nicolaus von Horthy named Regent
  Allies and Hungary sign Treaty of Trianon
• Ireland: Split between Free and North
  Civil war aggrivated by British
  Home Rule Act accepted in north
• Italy: Industrial unrest
  Treaty of Rapallo with Yugoslavia
• Lithuania: Republic of Central Lithuania forms in Russia area
• Netherlands: The Hague selected as seat of International Court of Justice
• Poland: Red army invades and takes Odessa - war
  Creation (again) of the Free City of Danzig to 1939
  End of he Lemko-Rusyn republic
• Russia: Caucasus and Turkestan reconquered
  Peasant revolts in Russia, Caucasus, Turkestan, and Ukraine
  Severe famine
  Nationalist rebellions in Estonia Finland Latvia and Lithuania
  End of Russian Civil War
  Vsevolod E Meyerhold opens theater in Moscow
• Sweden: Swedish author Dan Andersson dies of cyanide poisoning after bedbug treatment in hotel room
• Switzerland: League of Nations meet
• Ukraine: People's Republic falls to Russia

Middle East

• General: Britain and France establish their spheres of influence in the Middle East
• Ottoman Empire: War between Greece and Turkey
  Allies and Turkey sign Treaty of Sèvres breaking Ottoman empire and confining Turks to Anatolia and area around Istanbul – Turkish nationalists under Mustafa Kemal start revolution
• Palestine: Jewish state established under British administration
• Syria: Emir Faisal becomes king of independent Syria

Pacific

• General: Former German territories in the Pacific are mandated to Australia, Britain and Japan by the League of Nations
• Australia: Aquisition of former German colonies in Pacific
  Formation of Federal Country Party
• New Zealand: League of Nations gives mandate over Samoa
  Membership in League of Nations

President:

Pres: Woodrow Wilson
Pres: Warren G. Harding elected as "Dark Horse" candidate over James M Cox and SOcialist Eugene V. Debs

General

• Business: End of US coal strike
• Culture: Approximate beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance
  Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood writes that killing members of large families is merciful
• Education: End of reformation of children's books
• Entertainment: Westinghouse Company opens first American broadcasting station (radio) - KDKA
• Finance: Start of three-year depression
• Law: Women's suffrage with passage of 19th amendment
  18th Amendment and prohibition passes
  US Transportation Act repeals Sherman Anti-trust Act
• Military: US troops flee from Vladivostok
• Politics: Treaty of Versailles rejected by Congress
  US and China sign tariff treaty
• Sports: Ethelda M Bleibtrey wins three gold medals at Antwerp Olympics (first after 8 years)
  Original baseball field in Cooperstown NY dedicated as permanent memorial
  Babe Ruth sold by Boston Red Sox to NY Yankees - start of "curse"
  Man O'War US thoroughbred put out to stud after winning 20/21 races
• Transportation: First airmail from NY to San Francisco

East

• Massachusetts: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested for murder of two
• New York: Bomb attempt at JP Morgan Bank kills 35 ans wounds 130
  Beniamino Gigli makes debut at Met
  NY Times article ridicules rockets in space

Midwest

• General: Indiana and Ohio experience 11 tornadoes in area
• Illinois: Chicago becomes center of jazz music
  Tornadoes hit Chicago leaving millions in damage

South

• General: Tornadoes
• Florida: Northern lights visible
• Oklahoma: Peggs hit with F4 tornado and destroyed

West and Pacific

• Utah: Former president Taft 6th visit to Utah to support Reed Smoot
  Smoot backs Harding for president – suggested that he would get cabinet post but declines
  Smoot convinces Harding that Hoover be named Secretary of Commerce
  Lehi dairy farmers first ship via electric rail to Salt Lake City (Elisha Peck Jr. named as party)

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 525,987

Temples: 5

Other

• Building plans standardized to connect chapel and classrooms with cultural hall
• World survey of Church missions begins
• Elder Smoot heavily involved in national politics
• Elders McKay and Cannon take world tour
• Germany reopens
• China dedicated