4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 89

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 67
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 65
Elisha Peck Jr. 75
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 70

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 43
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 40
Harry Chester Peterson 44
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 44

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 7
Peggy LaNae Peterson 3

General

Population: 2.43 Billion*

• Entertainment: Dylan Thomas publishes Deaths and Entrances
  Dr. Benjamin Spock publishes The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care
  Writers include Simone de Beauvoir, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Sartre, Hermann Hesse (Nobel Prize), Aldous Huxley
  
• Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony
  Copeland's Third Symphony
  Picasso founds pottery at Vallauris
  Buckminster Fuller designs Dymaxion House
  Music includes Benjamin Britten, Gian Carlo Menotti, Irving Berlin (Annie Get Your Gun), Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Brigadoon)
  Artists include Fernand Leger, Chagall
• Food: Worldwide wheat shortage
• Politics: First meeting of United Nations with Trygve Lie of Norway as Secretary-General
  "Iron Curtain" speech by Churchill as cold war begins
  Commission on Human Rights established
  League of Nations dissolved
  UN Atomic Energy Commission approves US plan for control
• Religion: Pope Pius XII creates 32 new cardinals
  Francis Xavier Cabrini canonized
• Science: Precambrian fossils found resembling jellyfish and corals
  Appleton discovers that sun spots emit radio waves
  Isotope Carbon-13 discovered
  Nobel prizes for work with enzymes, x-ray mutations, and high pressure
  South Pole expedition of R. E. Byrd
• Technology: Pilotless rocket missle constructed by Fairey Aviation Company
  Xerography process invented
  Mauchly and Eckert create the ENIAC computer
• Deaths: James J Walker, Economist John Maynard Keynes, British TV inventor John Logie Baird, Paul Nash, WC Fields, Joseph Stella, US boxer Jack Johnson, Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Stein, German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, HG Wells, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy,Nazi leader Hermann Goering

Africa

• Egypt: Relapsing fever outbreak
• Liberia: Houphouet-Boigny founds African Democratic Federation

Americas

• Argentina: Juan Perón elected with aid of wife Eva
  Social reforms introduced
• Canada: 7.3 Quake in Vancouver British Columbia
• Dominican Republic: 8.0 quake and possibly unrelated tsunami kills 100

Asia

• General: Straits Settlements split with independent Singapore and Malay
• China: Famine and drought
  Civil war begins, truce
  Plague outbreak
• Hong Kong: Smallpox
• India: Independence offered
  Hindus and Muslims riot
  Pakistan considered
• Indo-China: French return to the peninsula - Civil war between those loyal to France and Nationalists
• Japan: Tsunami and 8.1 quake kill 2000
  Gen. MacArthur makes deal with Japanese physician trading information gained from human experimentation for immunity – vivisections included
  Power transferred from the Emperor to an elected assembly
• Malay: Independence from Britain - forms Malayan Union
• Philippines: Independence
• Sarawak: Kingdom of Sarawak in SE Asia ceded to British Crown by the Rajah Sir Charles Brooke - then independent
• Singapore: Independence from Britain
• Thailand: King Mahidol dies and turmoil follows
• Vietnam: Hanoi attacked by Ho Chi Minh
  Ho Chi Minh proclaimed president and independence from France proclaimed

Europe

• General: Nuremberg trials - Goering and 10 other Nazis sentenced to death Hess and Funk life imprisonment and Schacht and Von Papen acquitted – - Goering commits suicide before execution
• Albania: Independence
• Bulgaria: Independence and Dimitrov becomes premier
• Czechoslovakia: Klement Gottwals becomes Premier
• France: One third of seats go to Communists
  De Gaulle resigns presidency and is succeeded by Bidault – Leon Blum forms Socialist government
  Marcel André Henri Félix Pétiot a Paris doctor killed at least 60 during the war
  Peace conference opens in Paris to formally end war with 21 nations
• Germany: Britain and US agree on united west Germany
  Salzburg Festival reopens
  East German Social Democrats merge with Communists
• Great Britain: Bank of England nationalized
  Worldwide wheat shortage – in Britain bread rationing introduced
  New Bodleian Library in Oxford
  British Arts Council founded
  London airport opened
  Churchill gives "Iron Curtain" speech
• Greece: Civil War between Communists and Royalists
• Hungary: Super-inflation of the pengo 1:828 octillionths
  Republic proclaimed in Hungary
• Italy: Christians prevent Communists from gaining power
  Women ensured the right to vote
  Vote to abolish monarchy and establish republic
  Victor Emmanuel III abdicates as King of Italy and is succeeded by don Umberto II - Italian referendum in favor of republic so Umberto II leaves country and de Gasperi becomes head of state
• Norway: Statesman Trygve Lie elected first secretary-general of UN
• Soviet Union: Non-aggression pact with Turkey denounced

Middle East

• Lebanon: Britain and France evacuate
• Palestine: Dead Sea Scrolls discovered
  Zionist terrorists blow up King David Hotel in Jerusalem – headquarters of British administration – 91 killed
• Syria: Independence from France
• Turkey: Non-aggression pact with Soviet Union denounced by Soviets
• Transjordan: Independence and annexes West Bank - renames self Kingdom of Jordan

Pacific

• General: US and French test nuclear devices in Pacific - US at BIkini and Einwetok atolls
• Antarctica: South Pole expedition of R. E. Byrd
• Marshall Islands: Atomic bombs tested

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman

General

• Business: Steelworkers, coal miners and railroad workers go on strike
• Energy: President Truman creates Atomic Energy Commission
• Entertainment: First network soap opera "Faraway Hill" debuts
• Fashion: Two-piece swimsuits debut on same day and A bomb testing on bikini atoll – suits more controversial
• Military: Louis Slotin dies of radiation poisoning on same block which killed Harry Daghlian the year before and his screwdriver slipped – - core renamed "Demon core">
  US Navy tests atomic bomb at Bikini
  Biowarfare made public
  US begins ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) research
• Sports: "Assault" wins triple crown
  Shortest boxing fight in history at 10.5 seconds
  Joe Louis defends title for 23rd time
• Technology: American scientists at General Electric discover cloud seeding by dry ice

East

• Massachusetts: radiation fed to mentally disabled students around Harvard – later also at MIT
  Cloud seeding discovered
• New York: Experiments continue in Rochester about fluoridating humans
  Rochester injects subjects with uranium
  John D Rockefeller Jr. donates $8.5 million to UN for site of permanent headquarters in NYC
• Pennsylvania: Electronic brain built at Pennsylvania U

Midwest

• Illinois: Chicago laboratories inject people with arsenic
  Chicago employees given plutonium to drink
  U of Chicago injects humans with arsenic

South

• Virginia: Patients in VA hospitals used for human experimentation

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Quakes at 7.3 and 8.1
  Unimak Island tsunami
• Hawaii: Tsunami kills 179

President

Pres: George A. Smith

Membership: 996,505

Temples: 8

Other

• Church begins sending supplies to Europeans
• Elder Ezra Taft Benson travels to Europe to reorganize Church and distribute supplies
• President Smith first to visit Mexico (unless you count when Utah was part of Mexico)
• Relief Society announces enlarged social services and child welfare departments
• Elder Kimball leads Lamanite Committee
• Finland dedicated
• Pres. Smith meets with former President Hoover
• Truman sends congratulations to Utah on 50th anniversary
• Christmas – Truman accidentally summons President Smith to the White House to wish him Merry Christmas
• First Presidency instructs local leaders that sacrament should be passed to presiding officer first - later revoked