4

Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 95 died

3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 71
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 76 died

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 49
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 46
Harry Chester Peterson 50
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 50

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 13
Peggy LaNae Peterson 9

General

Population: 2.64 Billion

• Archaeology: Linear B text deciphered
• Culture: Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Schweitzer
• Entertainment: Films include Limelight (Chaplin), Othello (Orson Welles), Moulin Rouge (Jose Ferrer), High Noon (Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly)
  Art includes Chagall, Jackson Pollock
  Writers include Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man), Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea), Dylan Thomas, Agatha Christie, François Mauriac, Anouilh, Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), John Steinbeck (East of Eden), Carl Jung, Norman Vincent Peale, Ralph Ellison wins award for The Invisible Man
  Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks"
  Music includes Boris Blacher, Hindemith, Rolf Liebermann, Leonard Bernstein
• Fashion: Christian Dior gains influence on Paris haute couture
• Medicine: Polio vaccine tested by Salk
  Streptomycin discovered
  Contraceptive pill of phosphoroated hesperidin produced
  Michael DeBakey performs first coronary bypass
• Religion: Revised Standard Version of the Bible published for Protestants
• Science: Atomic magnetic fields studied
  Cyram and Becker statistically demonstrate connection between death frequency and weather
  Watson and Crick propose structure of DNA
  Sokolov establishes term Vendian for latest Precambrian
• Technology: First flight of F-100 supersonic fighter
  Isotopes in use in medicine and industry
  First artificial diamond made
  Raytheon Corp. produces microwave oven
• Death: George Santayana, John Dewey, Eva Peron

Africa

• Egypt: Anti-British riots erupt in Egypt = Aly Maher Pasha appointed premier but resigns
  King Farouk overthrown and Nasser Rules
  Constitution of 1923 abolished
• Kenya: Terrorism as Mau Mau fighters seek independence to 1959

Americas

• Argentina: Death of Eva Peron
• Bolivia: Revolution
• Canada: First sighting of Igopogo the monster of Lake Simcoe
• Mexico: Ruiz Cortines elected President
• Puerto Rico: Self-governing commonwealth under US help

Asia

• General: China and Mongolia sign 10-year agreement
• India: First national election - Nehru elected
• Japan: End of US occupation
• North Korea: Hydroelectric plants in N Korea bombed by US planes – UN General Assembly adopts Indian proposal for Korean armistice – China rejects plan
• South Korea: War continues
  China accuses US of waging germ warfare in Korea

Europe

• General: European coal and steel meeting
  Greece and Turkey join NATO
  Franco-German crisis over Saar administration
• Austria: St. Stephens Cathedral in Vienna reopened
• Czechoslovakia: Rudolph Slansky and Vladimar Clementis accused of high treason and executed
• East Germany: 16k people escape from E to W Berlin in August
• France: European Defence Community Treaty signed in Paris
• Great Britain: Death of King George VI as daughter Elizabeth II rules
  Inversion and fog kills 12,000
  London trams retired
  Lionel Brett designs Hatfield New Town
  Lynmouth Devon flood
  First passenger jet
  Churchill announces the Britain has produced and atomic bomb
• Finland: Helsinki Olympics
• Ireland: John Cobb killed while establishing water-speed record on Loch Ness
• Soviet Union: Chou En-lai visits Moscow
  Communist Party Congress meets in Moscow
  Tsunami
  Kamchatka quake in east Siberia/Aleutian islands estimated at a 9
• Sweden: Death of explorer Sven Hedin
• Switzerland: Art nouveau expo in Zurich
• West Germany: Bonn Conventions ends occupation
  Restitution for damages done to Jews by the Nazis agreed with Israel

Middle East

• Iran: US overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran and installs Shah
• Israel: Einstein declines offer to become president
  Death of Chiam Weizmann and Yizhak Ben-Zvi elected President
• Jordan: Kathleen Kenyon excavates Jericho
  Prince Hussein Ibn Talal grandson of King Abdullah proclaimed King

Pacific

• General: British first atomic tests in Monte Bello Islands W Australia
  First hydrogen bomb exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific
  Honolulu Conference of three-power Pacific Council (Australia US and New Zealand)

President:

Pres: Harry S. Truman
Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower elected over Adlai Stevenson

General

• Culture: American Eugenics Society combines with Population Council under Rockefeller family
• Entertainment: Liberace starts popular television show
  Leonard Nimoy appears as Martian on science fiction tv show Zombies of the Stratosphere
  TV's magazine format "Today" show debuts
  Jackie Gleason Show (The Honeymooners), "Dragnet", and two Arthur Godfrey shows
  Popular artists include Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Frankie Lane
• Medicine: Polio outbreak in US – 3300 die and 57000 cases worldwide
• Military: Announcement of hydrogen bomb experiments
  Harold Blauer – depression patient – injected with mescaline by US Army and was killed by final dose
  Pentagon psychic projects underway
• Politics: Elder Ezra Taft Benson chosen as Secretary of Agriculture
  Kennedy elected U.S. Senator
• Sports: Women banned from playing professional baseball
  Rocky Marciano becomes world heavyweight boxing champion

East

• New York: Lever House designed by Skidmore Owings and Merril

Midwest

• General: Drought
• Ohio: Prisoners at Ohio State Prison injected with cancer cells

South

• General: First year without reported racial lynchings in US
  31 tornadoes reported

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Kamchatka quake in Aleutians estimated at a 9
• California: 7.3 quake kills twelve
  Bullock discovers rattlesnakes possess third eye – heat sensing
• Utah: Military scientists spread Brucella around Dugway

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,189,053

Temples: 8

Other

• Standard missionary discussion plan introduced
• Primary Children's Hospital dedicated
• Priesthood session of Conference carried by phone to buildings outside of Temple Square
• Senior Aaronic Priesthood program created
• Elder Ezra Taft Benson chosen as Secretary of Agriculture by President Eisenhower
• Primary and Cub Scouts team together
• Former president Hoover meets with Ezra Taft Benson – start of 12 year friendship
• Truman speaks at BYU
• Neal A Maxwell serves in President's economics department
• Eisenhower visits with President McKay
• Nixon visits Utah as Eisenhower's running mate – Elder Marion G. Romney is not impressed with him
• President McKay visits Europe