4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 92

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 70
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 68
Elisha Peck Jr. 78
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 73

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 46
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 43
Harry Chester Peterson 47
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 47

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 10
Peggy LaNae Peterson 6

General

Population: 2.51 Billion*

• Anthropology: Leroi-Gourhan discovers Neanderthal art in cave
• Entertainment: Writers include Orwell 1984, Miller's Death of a Salesman, TS Eliot, William Faulkner, Norman Vincent Peale, Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Schweitzer, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex
  The "Great Palindrome" solved
  Music includes Arthur Bliss (The Olympians), Britten, Carl Orff, Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific), Leonard Bernstein, Bela Bartok, Paul Hindemith
  
  Miles Davis releases Birth of the Cool
  The samba comes into fashion
  Art includes Graham Sutherland, Chagall
  Film includes Orson WElles in The Third Man
• Medicine: Philip Hench discovers cortisone, Neomycin isolated by Waksman
• Politics: NATO is formed
  Four-Point program announced
  North Atlantic Defense Pact - North Atlantic Treaty signed
• Science: WF Giague wins prize for chemical thermodynamics
  X-ray astronomy begins
• Sports: Boxer Joe Lewis retires
• Technology: RWG Wyckoff writes about electronic microscopy
  Geoffrey de Havilland "Comet" airplane created
• Deaths: Deaths: Rabbi Stephen S Wise, Richard Strauss, José Orozco, John Haigh the "Acid Bath Murderer" executed – (note that gall stones don't dissolve in sulfuric acid)

Africa

• Kenya: Mau Mau movement founded
• South Africa: Apartheid adopted

Americas

• Canada: Newfoundland becomes province of the Canadian Federation
• Colombia: Mt. Purace erupts killing 57,000
• Ecuador: Earthquake kills over 6000
• Newfoundland: Dominion ends - see Canada

Asia

• General: UN negotiates peace between Pakistan and India and both sides told to withdraw troops from Kashmir
• Cambodia: Independence as breakup of French Indochina
• China: USSR extends Communism into China as Tientsin falls
  Chang Kai-shek driven from power while pleading with US for help
  Nationalist China (Chang's) limited to Taiwan (Formosa)
  Mao Zedong proclaims People's Republic with Chou En-lai as premier
  Peking becomes capital
  Waterfront fire kills 1700
  Flooding as Yangtze overflows
• India: Khait landslide
  Border disputes with Pakistan (See Pakistan)
  Pandit Nehru becomes Prime Minister
  India adopts constitution as federal republic
• Indonesia: Communist-sympathizing president rules as country independent from Dutch
  Renamed from Netherlands East Indies
• Laos: Independence after breakup of French Indochina
• Netherlands New Guinea: Forms to 1963 - eventually just New Guinea
• South Korea: US completes withdrawal of occupying forces in S Korea
  UN warns of danger of civil war in Korea
• Vietnam: Independence with breakup of French Indochina
  Communists give support to Ho Chi Minh

Europe

• General: Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) set up to integrate east Europe's econimies
  NATO established against Communists
  US Foreign Assistance Bill grants another 5.43 billion to Europe
  Charlemagne Prize for European Understanding established
• East Germany: Created (DDR) with Pieck as president
  Berlin airlift to supply West Berlin ends after 277,264 flights
  Dramatist Bertolt Brecht sets up theater company in Berlin
• Germany: Officially divided
• Great Britain: Britain devalues the pound sterling fromo over $4 to about $2.80
  National Health Service in Britain founded
  First automatic landing of plane – British RAF
  British Gas Industry nationalized
  Clothes rationing ends
• Greece: Civil War in Greece ends when communists defeated
• Hungary: Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason
• Ireland: Republic of Eire proclaimed in Dublin – Britain recognizes Eire's independence
• Italy: Man killed by lightning in Italy – same place and way his father was killed in 1938 and grandfather in 1899
• Soviet Union: First atomic bomb exploded by USSR
  Lomonosov U in Moscow built
  Vishinsky replaces Molotov as USSR Foreign Minister
• Turkmenistan: 110,000 killed in earthquake
• West Germany: Created from divided Germany with Bonn as capital
  Theodor Heuss elected President with Konrad Adenauer Chancellor
  Statute of Council of Europe established with Strasbourg as headquarters

Middle East

• General: UN negotiates ceasefire to end Israeli and Arab League War
• Israel: One million Palestinians flee as Israel admitted to UN
  Formal armistice establishes nation of Israel - Jerusalem partitioned
• Jordan: Renamed from Transjordan - Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• Pakistan: UN negotiates peace between Pakistan and India and both sides told to withdraw troops from Kashmir
• Turkey: Earthquake

Pacific

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman

General

• Crime: Eleven US Communists convicted of trying to overthrow government
• Entertainment: Doris Day becomes household name with films, music and divorce
  Johnny Ray signs record contract that will lead him to fame
  South Pacific debuts on Broadway
  Walter Winchell, famed journalist invents gossip column
  First Emmy Awards
  First daytime dramas
  Milton Berle hosts first telethon benefiting cancer research
  Top Television includes "The Texaco Star Theater" "Toast of the Town" (Ed Sullivan), "Arthur godfrey's Talent Scouts"
• Military: US Air Force crosses US in 3 hours 46 minutes
  US launches guided missile 250 miles
• Politics: North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington
• Sports: Joe DiMaggio returns from injury to help Yankees win World Series
• Technology: Three million US homes have television
  Cable TV started for weak signal areas

East

• New York: Kokoschka Expo at NY MOMA

Midwest

• Nebraska: Storm causes drifts over 20 feet tall

South

• Louisiana: Louis Armstrong returns to Mardi Gras as king of New Orleans Zulu krewe
• Oklahoma: Tornado creates circle around city of Alfalfa

West and Pacific

• Washington: Earthquake in Vancouver

President

Pres: George A. Smith

Membership: 1,078,671

Temples: 8

Other

• Special welfare meeting keeps welfare program as part of Church
• Conference broadcast on commercial TV (KSL) for first time
• Second "Welfare Square" purchased in California
• Work on Primary Children's Hospital begins as old hospital is obsolete
• Former President Hoover confers with President George Albert Smith regarding government waste
• Truman praises Brigham Young and SLC in American Society of Engineers for foresight
• President G.A. Smith and Elder Benson send Truman Book of Mormon and other LDS literature
• Start of relationships between Gerald R. Ford and Mormons – especially Ford's skiing partner James E. Brown an FBI agent
• Church film The Lord's Way made in Hollywood and introduced