4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 93

3

Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 71 died
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 69
Elisha Peck Jr. 79
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 74

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 47
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 44
Harry Chester Peterson 48
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 48

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 11
Peggy LaNae Peterson 7

General

Population: 2.56 Billion

• Architecture: UN Building completed
• Fashion: Hazel Bishop manufactures kiss-proof lipstick
• Entertainment: Artists include Chagall, Kokoschka, Matisse begins work on Vence Chapel
  Films include Sunset Boulevard
  Musicians include Gian Carlo Menotti
  Cool Jazz develops from bebop
  International Bach Year celebrates 200 years since death
  Writers include Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway, Thor Heyerdahl, Ezra Pound, CP Snow, Anouilh, Bertrand Russell (Nobel Prize), Tennessee Williams, Margaret Mead, Sartre
  Neruda's "Canto General"
• Medicine: Ultrasound first used on pregnant women
  Antihistamines become popular remedies for colds and allergies
  End of third plague pandemic killing 300 million since 1850
• Military: Hydrogen bomb invented
• Politics: International Security Act passed
  USSR and Communist China sign 30-year friendship treaty
• Religion: Pope Pius XII proclaims dogma of bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary
• Science: Plutonium separated from pitchblende concentrated
  GT Seaborg discovers californium
  Berkelium discovered
  Einstein attempts to expand Theory of Relativity
  Nobel Prizes for hormones
  30,000th rose variety catalogued
• Technology: 1.5 million televisions
  Phonevision (pay per view) becomes available
• Deaths: George Bernard Shaw, Composer Kurt Weill, Heinrich Mann, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan), Edna St. Vincent Millay, Al Jolson, Carl Van Doren, Richard Chase – "Vampire of Sacramento" the poisoned soap guy

Africa

• General: Only Egypt, South Africa, and Liberia independent - with Ethiopia gaining independence during WWII
• South Africa: Riots in Johannesburg against apartheid

Americas

• Canada: Moon appears blue due to fire in British Columbia
• Chile: Volcanoes, quakes, and tsunamis kill 5700
• Mexico: Pani and del Moral design University City
• Puerto Rico: Power to write own constitution

Asia

• China: Flooding
  Mao makes peasants melt down tools for ship steel and decade results in 30 million dead from famine
  Chiang Kai-shek resumes presidency of Nationalist China (Taiwan)
  Recognized by Britain
• India: Dominion of India renamed Union of India - independence
  Enormous earthquake kills about 1000
  Famine
  Landslides
• Indonesia: Admission to UN
• North Vietnam: US recognizes North with Saigon capital
• South Korea: War begins when American jets attacked and Communists invade and capture Seoul - MacArthur appointed
  Hantavirus breakout
• Tibet: Appeals to UN to enforce cease fire with China
  Quake kills 1526 and registers 8.6
• Vietnam: USSR and China recognize Viet minh

Europe

• General: East Germany and Poland settle boundaries - proclaim Oder-Neisse line as frontier
  "Winter of Terror" killer avalanches in the Alps
  European Broadcasting Union formed
• Belgium: King Leopold III returns from Swiss exile after six years and abdicates and son Baudouin rules
• Great Britain: Cockerell in Britain invents hovercraft – knighted 1969
  London dock strike
  Klaus Fuchs found guilty of betraying British atomic secrets to USSR and imprisoned – Harry Gold his American confederate sentenced to 30 years
• Italy: Eugenio Montiori designs Rome railroad station
  Internation Exhibition of Ecclesiastical Art in Rome
• Sweden: King Gustavus V dies and son Gustavus VI reigns
• West Germany: Joins council of Europe

Heavy earthquake damages Assam,

Middle East

• Israel: Recognized by Britain
• Pakistan: Created through partitioning

Pacific

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman

General

• Business: Studebaker car company starts financial downfall
• Crime: Alger Hiss the US State Department official sentenced for perjury
  Assassination attempt against Truman made by two Puerto Rican nationals – one killed the other sentenced to death – commuted to life
• Culture: Rate of divorce in US doubles since 1940
  African-American Ralph Bunche wins Nobel Peace Prize
  Civil Rights campaign increases in US
• Entertainment: Marilyn Monroe becomes popular with emergence of five movies
  Saturday morning children's programming begins
  Top television includes The Texaco Star Theater, Fireside Theater, Your Show of Shows, Philco Television Playhouse, The Colgate Comedy Hour
  Benny Goodman and NBC Symphony Orchestry premiere Copland music
  Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (Guys and Dolls)
• Law: Congress passes McCarran Act over presidential veto restricting Communists
• Medicine: Dr. D. Ewen Cameron publishes regarding experiments on schizophrenics forcing high body temperatures and injections of insulin
  Miltown a meprobamate comes into wide use in the US as a tranquilizer
• Military: Truman instructs US Atomic Energy Commission to develop hydrogen bomb
  Death of "Hap" Arnold General of the US Air Force
  US Army releases chemical clouds over six American cities – high respiratory illnesses
  CIA uses drugs to interrogate
• Politics: Richard Nixon elected to US Senate
  Senator Joseph McCarthy starts anti-Communist crusade
• Religion: 25 Protestant and four Eastern Orthodox Church groups organize National Council of the Churches of Christ in the US
• Technology: Television widely broadcast
  Color television broadcasts continually

East

• New York: Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens in New York
• Pennsylvania: January thaw reaches temperatures of 75-80 degrees

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• California: Navy sprays B. globigii bacteria over San Francisco causing pneumonia-like symptoms
• Hawaii: Study shows dolphins can detect size, distance, and rigidity of object by sonar

President

Pres: George A. Smith

Membership: 1,111,314

Temples: 8

Other

• Last two missionaries in Czechoslovakia released from prison and expelled
• Missionaries return to Hong Kong for first time since 1853
• Tahitian mission purchases yacht
• Young women placed under care of YWMIA instead of Bishopric
• Early morning seminaries in California and Pacific
• Czechoslovakian and Eastern Europe missions close
• 60,000th ward created ***
• President Smith dedicates Brigham Young statue at nation's Capitol