4

Bernard Snow (II) 81
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 80

3

William Nephi Lowe 68
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 58
Charles Eben Snow 53
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 56
Martin Peterson 72
Elisha Peck Jr. 66
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 61

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 34
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 31
Harry Chester Peterson 35
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 35

General

Population: 2.24 Billion*

• Entertainment: Picasso paints Guernica
  Edgar Bergen and puppet Charlie McCarthy debut on television
  Orff's Carmina Burana
  Musicians include Count Basie, Fred Astaire (They Can't Take That Away From Me), Eddy Duchin (De-lovely), Tommy Dorsey and Sophie Tucker
  Popular songs include Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, The Lady is a Tramp, Whistle While You Work, I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
  Films include "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (Disney), "Camille" (Garbo)
  Art includes Picasso (Guernica), Klee, Joan Miro
  Writers include Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Sartre, John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men), Aldous Huxley
  Music includes Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Rodgers and Hart, Carl Orff (Carmina Burana)
• Finance: Keyes publishes regarding money
• Medicine: Yellow fever vaccine created
  First account of placebo effect published by Cornell after non-consensual medical study
  Insulin used to control diabetes
• Science: Discovery of positrons
  Kreb's Cycle discovered
  Chloroplast reactions discovered in plants
  Crystalline vitamin A and K concentrates first obtained
  Marietta Blau examines cosmic radiation using photographic plate
  Meteoroid "Hermes" passes between Earth and the moon
  Radiometric dating invented
  Radio telescope put into operation
• Technology: Nylon patented (see 1934) for Du Pont
  First jet engine built by Frank Whittle
  Turing machine (computer/simulator) invented
• Deaths: Lord Ernest Rutherford, Guglielmo Marconi, John D Rockerfeller, Andrew Mellon, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, JM Barrie

Africa

• Egypt: Membership in League of Nations
  Anglo-Egyptian Treaty restricts British forces to Canal Zone for 20 years

Americas

• Argentina: Ortiz elected after period of instability
• Brazil: Vargas becomes dictator

Asia

• General: Sino-Japanese War begins as Japan attacks China
• China: China under internal conflict with Communists- absorbed into WWII
  China loses control of most large cities to Japan (Shanghai and Beiing (Peking)) - "Rape of Nanking" - 100,000 troops massacred
  Chinese and Communists unite to fight Japanese
  Chiang Kai-shek unites with Communists – - led by Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai – Chinese government makes Chungking its capital
• India: Autonomy
  All-India Congress Party wins elections
• Japan: Aggression in Asia
  Unit 731 in Japan begins human experimentation until end of WWII
  Prince Konoye named Japanese Premier – aggressive Japanese war policy begins
• New Guinea: Batana, the volcanic crater under water in New Guinea erupts

Europe

• General: Italy and Yugoslavia sign Belgrade Pact
  Britain signs naval agreements with Germany and the USSR
• Austria: Amnesty declared for illegal Austrian Nazis
• Belgium: Germany guarantees indisolability of Belgium
• Czechoslovakia: German Czechs demand full rights
  Death of first Czechoslovakian president Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
  Riots in Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia – Sudeten Germans leave Czech parliament
• France: Lein Blum resigns and Camille Chautemps becomes French Premier
  French armament factories nationalized
  Repairs completed on Rheims Cathedral in France after heavy damage in WWI
• Germany: Martin Niemoller a Protestant parson of Berlin interned in concentration camp by Hitler
  End of independent German Free City of Lübeck
  Albert Speer becomes Hitler's chief architect
  Catholic and Protestant leaders persecuted in Germany - Nazis rally at Nuremberg
• Great Britain: King George VI of England coronated
  Death of British statesman Austen Chamberlain
  Lord Halifax visits Hitler – beginning of policy of appeasement
  Imperial Conference held in London
  Stanley Baldwin retires – Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of Britain
  Matrimonial Causes Bill facilitates divorce proceedings in England
  ARP introduced in England
  London Bus Strike
  Duke of Windsor marries Mrs. Wallis Simpson
  Two London papers merge
  Billy Butlin opens first commercial holiday camp in Britain Lord Nuffield founds his college at Oxford
• Ireland: Eamonn de Valera becomes prime minister
  Irish Free State renamed Eire
• Italy: Council of Corporations taken over by government
  Italy joins German-Japanese alliance
  Mussolini visits Libya and Berlin
  Schuschnigg and Mussolini meet in Venice
  Italy joins anti-Comintern Pact
  Italy withdraws from League of Nations
• Poland: Poland refuses to sign agreement to return Danzig to Germany
• Soviet Union: Moscow show trial against Karl radek and other political leaders
  Eight Soviet generals executed
• Spain: Spanish rebels take Malaga destroy Guernica and Gijon - German planes bomb Basque town of Guernica
  Spanish government moves to Barcelona
  Franco begins naval blockade
  Government troops open offensive at Teruel
  Civil War continues
  Picasso's Guernica shows disstruction in Spanish Civil War

Middle East

• Aden: Aden becomes British Crown Colony (South Arabia - became Yemen)
• Iraq: Bakr Sidqi of Iraq assassinated
• Palestine: Conflict between Jews and Arabs
  Royal Commission on Palestine recommends the establishment of Arab and Jewish states
  Israel Philharmonic founded in Tel Aviv

Pacific

• Australia: Start of 8 years of droughts in SW
  Fire
• New Zealand: National Party formed in opposition to Labour Party

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt

General

• Business: Sitdown strikes involve about 500k people in US
  US National Labor Relations Act
• Entertainment: George VI's coronation broadcast in the US
  Walt Disney shows first full-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Finance: First Social Security payment made in US
  Relapse in depression, New Deal blamed
  Wall Street declines again
• Law: US Supreme Court rules in favor of minimum wage law for women
• Military: Japanese planes sink US gunboat Panay in Chinese waters
  FDR signs US Neutrality Act
• Politics: Roosevelt proposes quarantine policy for aggressor nations
  US threatens oil embargo in Japan
• Sports: "War Admiral" wins triple crown
  Joe Louis regains heavyweight boxing title
• Technology: Nylon invented by Wallace Carothers in US
  High-speed photography via strobes invented by Edgerton
• Transportation: Last contact with Amelia Earhart over Pacific
• Death: Possible late death date of Butch Cassidy – unless he died in a South American shootout

East

• General: Lincoln Tunnel opened between New York City and New Jersey
• New Jersey: Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst kills 35 of 97 people on board - first live transcontinental broadcast of disaster
• Washington D.C.: Paul Mellon endows National gallery in DC

Midwest

• General: Last of six years of drought in US great plains
• Illinois: Chicago strike against Republic Steel - 4 killed and 84 hurt
• Michigan: Detroit auto workers strike
• Ohio: Flood in Cincinnati

South

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 7.3 Quake
• California: Golden Gate Bridge opened
• Oregon: Bonneville Dam on Columbia River opens

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 767,752

Temples: 7

Other

• First Presidency adopts practice of ordaning young men at set ages to offices in Priesthood
• Portion of Nauvoo Temple lot returned to Church
• Hill Cumorah Pageant started and Bureau of Information (Visitor Center) opened there
• Deseret Industries opens in SLC
• Year's Supply of food challenge
• Saints counseled to avoid debt
• "A Marvelous Work and A Wonder" published
• President Grant visits 11 countries in Europe