4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 88

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 66
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 64
Elisha Peck Jr. 74
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 69

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 42
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 39
Harry Chester Peterson 43
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 43

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 6
Peggy LaNae Peterson 2

General

Population: 2.41 Billion*

• Entertainment: Bartók's Third Piano Concerto
  Strauss' Metamorphosen
  Bebop comes into fashion
  George Orwell publishes Animal Farm
  Writers include Sinclair Lewis, George Orwell (Animal Farm), James Thurber, Sartre, Hermann Hesse
  Music includes Richard Strauss, Benjamin Britten, Zoltan Kodaly, Prokofiev, Rodgers and Hammerstein (Carousel)
• Finance: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UN World Bank) founded with 27 trillion in capital
• History: Gnostic work by Origen discovered
• Medicine: Fleming Florey and Chain win Nobel Prize for discovery of penicillin
• Politics: Potsdam conference agrees on postwar powers of Germany
  Yalta conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
  UN Established and 50 members sign charter
  World Zionist Conference calls for Jewish state in Palestine
• Science: Radio astronomy begins
  Lajos Janossy explores cosmic radiation
  Vitamin A synthesized
  Jet streams discovered by pilots
• Technology: Jet planes invented
  Percy Spencer accidentally discovers microwave cooking
• War: WWII ends – war dead estimated at 35 million in war plus 10 million in concentration camps
• Deaths: Franklin Roosevelt, Adolph Hitler, "Bitch of Belsen" Irma Grese, David Lloyd George, Pietro Mascagni, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Theodore Dreiser, FW Aston, Bela Bartók, Benito Mussolini, German physicist Arthur Korn, George S Patton, Pietro Mascagni, Petain sentenced to death

Africa

Americas

Asia

• Burma: Burma road reopens and Rangoon recaptured
  British offensive begins
• Cambodia: Independenct
• China: Chinese steamship Hai Chu strikes mine killing 1800
  Fighting between Nationalists and Communists in north
• India: Clashes between Moslems and Hindus
• Indonesia: Nationalists declare war on Netherland rulers - renamed from Netherlands East Indies
• Japan: Soviets declare war
  US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  Battle of Iwo Jima and invasion of Okinawa
  Japan surrenders (V-J Day)
  End of Japan's Unit 731 and their human experimentation
  Shintoism abolished
• Korea: Soviet Union declares war
• Manchuria: Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria reverts back to Chinese rule
  Soviet Union declares war
• North Korea: Independence
• Philippines: MacArthur lands
  Americans enter Manila
• South Korea: Independence
• Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh declares a Republic

Europe

• General: End of WWII
  Anne Frank dies of typhoid at Bergen-Belsen
  Churchill Truman and Stalin confer at Potsdam
  Potsdam conference agrees on postwar powers of Germany
  Yalta conferences between US, GBR and USSR where Soviets refuse to relinquish control
  UN Organization founded
  Start of Nuremberg war trials for 6 million Jews dead
  Eastern Europeans flee to west
  Britain and Germany start using jet-engined fighters
  "Black Markets" for food clothing and cigarettes throughout Europe
• Austria: Declaration of future neutrality
  Bremen, Genoa, Verona, and Venice taken
  Karl Renner elected President
• Bulgaria: Communists win election
• Czechoslovakia: Reformation of Czechoslovakia from "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak State"
• France: Laval dentenced to death
  de Gaulle becomes president
  Women's suffrage becomes law
• Germany: German cruiser Wilhelm Gustloff torpedoed by Russian sub killing 7700
  US and USSR troops meet at Torgau
  Allied bombing raid on Dresden, Cologne, and Danzig
  British troops reach the Rhine
  Surrenders May 7 (V-E)
  Hitler commits suicide
  Partitioning of Germany
  Death of "Bitch of Belsen" Irma Grese who savaged female prisoners
• Great Britain: Churchill loses British election - Labour wins power – Attlee becomes prime minister
  Replacement of Waterloo Bridge in London
  Last of German rockets fall over Britain
  Scottish National Party sends first representative to parliament
  Family allowances introduced
  British troop ship Steuben sunk by Russians killing 3000
  Atomic Research Centre established in Hartwell
• Hungary: Soviet army enters and Budapest falls
• Italy: Bologna falls
  Germans surrender in Italy
  Mussolini executed by Italian partisans
  end of Italian Social Republic
• Netherlands: Trial of Hans van Meegeren the Dutch painter who forged great paintings
• Norway: Quisling sentenced to death
• Poland: Soviets liberate Auschwitz
  Russians take Warsaw, Krakow, Tilsit, and reach Oder River
• Soviet Union: Soviets mobilize against Azerbaijan
  War declared on Japan
  Yalta Conference between Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin
  Russian offensive in Silesia
• Spain: Exclusion from UN
• Switzerland: League of Nations holds final meeting in Geneva and turns over assets to UN
• Yugoslavia: End of Independent State of Croatia - Regency of Carnaro taken from Italy and given to Yugoslavia (Croatia area)
  Tito's party wins general election – declared republic

Middle East

• General: Arab League formed to oppose the creation of Jewish state
• Iran: Tsunami
• Lebanon: Independence from France
• Pakistan: Tsunami hits Balochistan
• Syria: Independence from France

Pacific

• Australia: Eight years of drought ends

President:

Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
Pres: Harry S. Truman

General

• Business: Auto workers strike at General Motors
• Entertainment: Ebony magazine founded
  "Carousel" debuts on Broadway
  Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker begin era of bebop jazz
  First television hits the market
• Medicine: Fluoride added to water supplies in the United States
• Military: Scientist Harry K Daghlian Jr. drops brick of tungsten carbide onto plutonium and dies of radiation poisoning – - first critical radiation poisoning death
  Operation Paperclip gives Nazi scientists immunity in exchange for work
• Technology: RCA orthicon tube improves TV
  FCC creates 13 channel broadcasting spectrum – applications follow

East

• New York: Ball point pens go on sail at Gimbels
  City Hall Station discontinued due to longer trains and a sharp turn
  B-25 bomber crashes into Empire State Building in dense fog, 14 die, and New Yorkers believed their city to be under attack
  NY researchers linked to Manhattan Project experiment with fluoridation
  Heirs of Ruppert and Barrow sell NY Yankees to syndicate
  Frank Lloyd Wright designs Guggenheim
• Pennsylvania: First electronic computer built at University of Pennsylvania

Midwest

• General: Tornado stretched from Oklahoma through Arkansas to Missouri
• Illinois: Manhattan Project doctors inject plutonium into patients in Chicago

South

• Georgia: Researchers in Atlanta infect 800 prisoners with malaria

West and Pacific

• California: San Francisco conference – UN charter signed
• New Mexico: US develops atom bomb at Los Alamos and detonated near Alamogordo
• Utah: Army private Bertucci guns down eight Germans in POW camp in Salina - buried at Fort Douglas
  Sunnyside Utah mine explosion when coal dust explodes

President

Pres: Heber J. Grant died
Pres: George A. Smith

Membership: 979,454

Temples: 8

8. Idaho Falls Idaho

Other

• Monthly Priesthood and Relief Society meetings ok if they didn't violate government laws regulating oil and rubber
• Elder Ezra Taft Benson reopens Europe - Mission presidents called in Europe again
• Tabernacle reopened
• First General Conference in four years
• President Smith meets with President Truman to present welfare for Europe plan
• Microfilming of England's parish records begins
• FDR dies, to the delight of members of Church leadership (Joseph Fielding Smith and J. Reuben Clark)
• Truman stops to sleep in Utah after signing U.N. Charter
• Truman thanks Saints for day of prayer
• German Saint Herbert Klopfer the East German mission president dies in Russian hospital
• Church sends supplies to Europe
• Temple ordinances first performed in Spanish in Mesa temple
• Missionaries called again - 3,000