4

Bernard Snow (II) 69
John Sylvester Perry 73
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 68
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 74
Lawson Green Wilson 78

3

William Nephi Lowe 56
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 46
Charles Eben Snow 41
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 44
Martin Peterson 60
Elisha Peck Jr. 54
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 49

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 22
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 19
Harry Chester Peterson 23
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 23

General

Population: 2.02 Billion*

• Crime: International convention against illegal narcotics trade
• Entertainment: Music includes Ben Bernie (Sweet Georgia Brown), Aaron Copland, Rudolf Friml, James Weldon Johnson (Book of American Negro Spirituals), Dmitri Shostakovich, Marion Harris (Tea for Two), "Show Me the Way to Go Home", Marian Anderson (Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen), If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie), Paul Whiteman (Charleston)
  Chicago-style jazz arrives in Europe
  Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
  Possible date of last castrato performance
  Crossword puzzles become fashionable
  Radio's "The Smith Family" introduces soap opera format
  <Ole> begins broadcasts
  Writers include Willa Cather, Noel Coward, e.e. cummings, Theodore Dreiser, F Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Maxim Gorki, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka (The Trial), Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith), Alfred Neumann, Gertrude Stein, Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Grey
  Films include The Gold Rush (Chaplin), The Freshman, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Joyless Street (Garbo), The Ghost of the Moulin Rouge
  Art includes Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, George Rouault
• Exploration: Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen reach latitude 87 degrees 44' in two amphibious phases
• Fashion: Female fashions include straight dresses with short skirts and cloche hats
• Medicine: French-Russian surgeon Serge Voronoff combines animal and human experimentation
• Politics: Bio-warfare outlawed
  Locarno Conference – great powers agree to put disputes to arbitration instead of war
• Religion: Jesuits number 18,718 members
• Science: Cytochromes discovered
  Australopithecus described as missing link
  Theory of gene-centers postulated by Russian botanist NI Vavilov
  Theory of Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit show how spinning electron accounts for Pauli formalism
  German chemist Carl Bosch invents process for preparing hydrogen
  Fischer and Tropsch synthesis leads to synthetic oil
  RA Millikan discovers cosmic rays in upper atmosphere
  Wolfgang Pauli works to explain atomic structure statistically
  Walter and Ida Noddack discover rhenium
• Sports: Alelxander Alekhine plays 28 simultaneous chess games while blindfolded
  Malcolm Campbell increases land speed record to 150.86 mph
• Technology: Harold S Vanderbilt devises contract bridge
  Scottish inventor John Logie Baird transmits recognizable human features by television
  First Leica camera built by Oskar Barnack
  Professor AO Rankine predicts taking motion picures in near future
• Travel: First solo nonstop from NY to Paris by Lindbergh
• Deaths: Zishe (Siegmund) Breitbart circus strongman and Jewish hero dies when driving spike through board with bare hands – pierces knee and he gets blood poisoning, First Viscount Leverhulme the English soap manufacturer, William Jennings Bryan, French general Charles Lanrezac, English chemist Sir Thomas Thorpe, German bacteriologist August von Wassermann, Walter Camp "Father of Football" German mathematician Felix Klein, Painter John Singer Sargent<, Artist George Bellows, Rudolf Steiner founder of Anthroposophical society, Mohammed Ali of Persia, German traveler in Africa and discoverer of pygmies George A Schweinfurth

Africa

• Morocco: Abd-el-Krim leads Arab uprising to 1926 - Petain the French Commander-in-Chief

Americas

• Bolivia: End of presidency of Juan Bautista Saavedra
• Canada: Earthquake over 6.3
  United Church of Canada founded
• Chile: Ibañez forces Alessandri from office
• Nicaragua: US intervenes following a civil war

Asia

• China: Death of Sun Yat-sen in China as Chiang Kai-shek becomes leader of Kuomintang (Nationalist) party
  Earthquake
• India: Death of Indian nationalist leader Surendranath Banerjea
• Japan: Introduction of general suffrage for men

Europe

• General: Locarno Agreements between major European powers for stability
• Cyprus: Cyprus becomes British Crown Colony
• Czechoslovakia: Franz Kafka publishes The Trial posthumously
• France: Surrealist painters expo in Paris
  Paul Painleve elected Premier
• Germany: European powers guarantee Germany's eastern European borders at Locarno
  Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau
  Fritz Haarmann executed for murdering at least 24 males
  Hitler released from prison
  Hans Luther named German Chancellor
  Weimar President and socialist Friedrich Ebert elected and dies
  Hindenburg elected President
  British troops evacuate Cologne
  Hitler reorganizes Nazi party – publishes Mein Kampf
• Great Britain: Death of British statesman Lord Curzon
  Unemployment Insurance Act enacted
  Death of Queen Alexandra
  British Dominions Office established
  London Bible Society distributes 10.5 million Bibles in 566 languages
  The Shaftesbury Memorial erected (by Alfred Gilbert) in London
  First International Congress of Radiologists held in London
• Greece: Coup in Athens – Theodore Pangalos becomes premier
• Italy: Mussolini assumes power, changing from Prime Minister to dictator, and bans all non-Fascist parties
  Teatro d'Arte in Rome created
  Dopolavore a Fascist recreation organization introduced
• Norway: Christiana Norway renamed Oslo
  Norway annexes Spitsbergen
  Lutheran World Conference held in Oslo
• Soviet Union: Stalin in power
  KJ Voroshilov named Minister of War

Middle East

• Palestine: Hebrew University founded in Jerusalem
• Persia: Reza Khan ascends Persian throne (Iran)
• Syria: States of Damascus and Allepo unite to form Syria

Pacific

President:

Pres: Calvin Coolidge

General

• Business: Chrysler Corporation founded
  Ford Motor Company's German subsidiary begins operations
• Communication: U.S. Kelly Act establishes Air Mail
  "The New Yorker" published
• Culture: Harlem Renaissance begins
• Entertainment: Charlie Chaplin stars in The Gold Rush
  The Charleston becomes fashionable dance
  First Guggenheim fellowship awarded to Aaron Copland
  Josephine Baker begins to perform
  Louis Armstrong begins work on Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings
• Politics: FB Kellogg appointed US Secretary of State
• Sports: All-American teams begin in "Collier's Weekly"

East

• General: 2 feet of snow fall across North East
• New York: Rodgers and Hart begin to work together for Broadway
  Madison Swuare Garden opened (new)
  Solar eclipse

Midwest

• General: Tri-state tornado hits MO IL and IN - Probably F5 killing 689-695
• Illinois: Al Capone takes over Chicago's South Side gang

South

• North Carolina: Trinity College NC changes name to Duke U after $40 million grant
• Tennessee: John T Scopes "Monkey Trial" involves prosecutor Wm. Jennings Bryan and defender Clarence Darrow
  Tennessee forbids teaching sex education
• Texas: Galveston hurricane

West and Pacific

• California: Hollywood releases Phantom of the Opera film
• New Mexico: Flint points found a Folsom
• Utah: Butch Cassidy's cousin Lula tells of Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy) returning to Centerville
• Wyoming: Widow Nellie Taylor Ross becomes first woman governor and completes husband's term

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 613,572

Temples: 6

Other

• Church Missionary Home and Preparatory Training School (Salt Lake Mission Home) created with week-long training
• "Mormon View of Evolution" published
• South American Mission opened
• Coolidge and Smoot go on a trip to Plymouth MA