4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 84

3

William Nephi Lowe 72
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 62
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 60
Elisha Peck Jr. 70
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 65

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 38
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 35
Harry Chester Peterson 39
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 39

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 2

General

Population: 2.33 Billion*

• Entertainment: Films include "The Two-Faced Woman" (Garbo's last), "Citizen Kane" (Orson Welles), "The Big Store" (Marx brothers), "Ohm Kruger" (anti-British propaganda), "Suspicion" (Hitchcock), "How Green Was My Valley"
  Art includes Edward Hopper (Nighthawks)
  Henry Moore's drawings of refugees in London air raid shelters
  Feliks Topolski executes drawings of British forces
  Music includes Shostakovich
  Writers include F Scott Fitzgerald (The Last Tycoon), Noel Coward, Winston Churchill, Upton Sinclair
• History: Monument Over Time Capsule to be opened in 6939 dedicated
• Medicine: Dr. William Black infects 12-month=old baby with herpes as part of experiment
  Goliszed publishes study on intentional infection of infants with gum disease Vincent's angina
• Politics: Churchill and Roosevelt sign Atlantic Charter (forerunner of UN) Atlantic drawn up to determine post-war peace
  Atlantic Charter states Allied War Claims
• Science: Edwain McMillan and Glenn T Seaborg discover plutonium
• Technology: "Mosquito" fighter aircraft in use
  Whinfield and Dickson invent Dacron
  Donald Bailey invents portable military bridge
  Hans Haas begins underwater photography
• Travel: Ferry Command aircraft crosses Atlantic
• Deaths: Sherwood Anderson the writer swallows toothpick at a party and dies of peritonitis, Lou Gehrig, Lord Robert Baden-Powell (Boy Scouts), English aviatrix Amy Johnson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Rabindranath Tagore, German physicist Walther Nernst, King Alfonso XIII of Spain

Africa

• General: Germans invade north Africa
  Rommel retreats after Allies counter
  Rommel aattacks Tobrik
• Egypt: Italians and Germans invade
• Eritrea: Italy surrenders land - combines with south Ethiopia
• Ethiopia: (Abyssinia) Italy surrenders Ethiopia - combines with Eritrea (N Ethiopia)
  Independence from British
• Libya: Germans invade north
  Australians and British capture Tobruk
  Allied troops take Benghazi - city evacuated
• Somaliland: Surrendered by Italy

Americas

• Canada: Churchill visits Ottawa
• Mexico: Colima erupts
• Panama: Gatun Locks construction on Panama Canal begins
• Peru: Avalanche
• St Lucia: US base built under "destroyers for bases" deal

Asia

• Hong Kong: Japan invades and Hong Kong surrenders
• Japan: Neutrality pact signed with Soviet Union
  War declared by British and United States
• Malaya: Japan invades
• Philippines: Japan attacks and invades
• Vietnam: Communist-nationalist guerrilla organization, the Vietminh, is set up in Indo-China

Europe

• General: Soviets and British sign pact of mutual assistance
  Germany and Italy declare war on US
  Jet aircraft developed in England and Germany
• Crete: Germans invade Crete
• Croatia: Formation of Independent State of Croatia to 1945
• Cyrene: British gain control of Cyrenaica
• Germany: German Naval ship Scharnhorst sunk by British killing 1425
  German U-boat attacks intensified
  Start of "Final" extermination of the Jews
• Great Britain: BBC Brains' Trust broadcast
  British Navy cruiser Hood sunk by the Bismarck killing 1338
  British ship Lancastria sunk killing 3900
  British Air Raid Precaution reorganized as Civil Defence
  Anthony Eden visits Soviet Union "Utility" clothing and furniture encouraged in Britain and clothes rationing starts
  Air Training Corps established
  Japanese sink HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse
  Blitz on Coventry - German air raids on London resumed
  RAF bombs Nuremberg
  HMS Ark Royal sunk
  British begin attack in western desert
• Greece: Greeks surrender to the Germans
  Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland
• Italy: Italian Neptunia sunk killing 5000
  Rome develops Central Institute of Restoration to preserve art
• Soviet Union: Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) - Germans invade - also Volgograd (Stalingrad) and advance on Moscow
  Minsk, Smolensk, Tallinn attacked, then Germans enter Ukraine taking Kiev, Orel, Odessa, and Kharkov fall
  Soviet counter-attack against Germans in Ukraine - Marshal Timoshenko launches Russian counter-offensive
  Germany invades under Operation Barbarossa
  Soviets and British sign pact of mutual assistance
  Stalin undisputed head of Soviet government
• Yugoslavia: Pro-Nazi Prince Paul regent of Yugoslavia deposed
  Germany invades

Bismarck sunk,

Middle East

• Egypt: Britains counter-attack Italy
• Iran: Invasion by Britain and Soviet Union
• Iraq: British forces invade
• Syria: British forces invade

Pacific

• Australia: Rubella outbreak

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt

General

• General: Joseph C Grew the US ambassador to Japan warns Roosevelt about possible attack
  Pearl Harbor - US enters WWII
• Culture: Roosevelt prohibits discrimination in defense industries
• Entertainment: FCC adopts transmission standards
  Musicians include Artie Shaw (Stardust), Wayne King (You Are My Sunshine), Billie Holiday, Andrews Sisters (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
  Truth or consequences becomes most popular radio show
• Finance: Lend-Lease Act stimulates US industry in support of Allied war effort
  US Supreme Court upholds Federal Wage and Hour Law restricting work of 16-18 year olds and setting minimum wage
  US Office of Price Administration established to regulare prices – steel price frozen and rubber rationed
  US Savings bonds go on sale
  US freezes German and Italian assets in US
• Military: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor Dec 7 and US declares war next day
  Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S. and US declares war on them
  Jeanette Rankin the US Representative casts sole dissenting vote on going to war
• Science: American scientists work on Manhattan Project
• Sports: American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame established
  Joe DiMaggio hits in 56 consecutive games establishing record
  "Whirlaway" wins triple crown

East

• Connecticut: Finally ratifies Bill of Rights
• District of Columbia: National gallery of Art opens
• Massachusetts: Finally ratifies Bill of Rights
• New York: Erwin Piscator founds Studio Theater
  Vanderbuilt researchers give 800 impoverished pregnant women radioactive iron
  Rainbow Bridge over Niagara Falls NY opens

Midwest

• Michigan: University of Michigan Drs. Salk spread influenza among volunteers
• Missouri: Tornado in Cape Girardeau

South

• Georgia: Finally ratifies Bill of Rights

West and Pacific

• Hawaii: Japanese bomb Pearl harbor killing 3303
• Washington: Grand Coulee Dam begins operation

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant

Membership: 892,080

Temples: 7

Other

• New membership record program eliminates personal membership certificates
• Assistants to the 12 announced
• Hugh B. Brown named army coordinator
• No new missionaries sent to South America
• Limits to Church meetings initiated