3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 73

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 51
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 48
Harry Chester Peterson 52
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 52

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 15
Peggy LaNae Peterson 11

General

Population: 2.73 Billion

• Business: Bulova watches tested on television thrown over Niagara falls
• Entertainment: "Rock Around the CLock" spurs worldwide interest in new music
  Elvis Presley records
  Artists include Chagall, Picasso
  Films include La Strada (Fellini), Rear Window (Hitchcock), The Seven Samurai
  Music includes Aaron Copland, Schonberg, Gian Carlo Mennotti, Stravinsky, Toscanini retires
  Writers include Ernest Hemingway (Nobel), Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, Mauriac, Montherlant, JB Priestley, Giradoux, e.e. cummings, Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Thornton Wilder, William Golding (Lord of the Flies), John Masters, CP Snow, JRR Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), Dylan Thomas (posth), Charles A Lindbergh
  "Herblock" wins second Pulitzer for cartoons
• Fashion: Cecil Beaton authors "Glass of Fashion" as history of style
  Cristobal Balenciaga introduces style that would become classic 1950s – feminine yet ultra-modern
• Medicine: First kidney transplant
  Pincus Rock and Garcia develop birth control pill
• Religion: Pope Pius XII proclaims Pope Pius X a saint
  Billy Graham begins holding evangelistic meetings in NY London and Berlin
• Science: Barghoorn and Tyler show bacteria in rocks over 2 billion years old
  100 known chemical elements
  Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry for study of molecular forces
• Sports: British Roger Bannister runs mile in under four minutes
• Technology: Dacron becomes early artificial fiber
  Color television broadcasts
  MASER invented
  First Mach 2 flight
• Deaths: Enrico Fermi, Henri Matisse, Lionel Barrymore, Oskar Straus

Africa

• General: Start of African colonies gaining independence 'till 1960
• Algeria: National Liberation Front (FLN) declares war against French rule - independence 1962
  Earthquake
• Egypt: General Nasser elected president to 1970
• Ethiopia: Emperor Haile Selassie in Bonn
• Gold Coast: National Liberation Movement begins
• Morocco: Desert locust plague - $14 million in crops destroyed,
• Sudan: Smallpox

Americas

• General: Che Guevara meets Fidel Castro
• Argentina: Juan Peron's last full year as president
• Canada: Toronto hit by hurricane Hazel
  US and Canada agree to build radar warning stations across northern Canada (Distant Early Warning "DEW" line)
• Guatemala: US overthrows Presiddent Arbenz and 200 k citizens die as result
• Paraguay: Pro-American Alfredo Stroessner becomes president
• Mexico: Flooding along Texas border

Asia

• General: War between Burma and Indo-China ends
  SEATO (South-East Asia) seeks to limit Communism
  Burma and Japan sign treaty
• Cambodia: Independence
• China: Flooding of Yangtzee in China kills 40,000
  US signs pact with Nationalist China
• Japan: Ferryboat sinks in hurricane killing 1000
  Godzilla King of the Monsters debuts in Japan
  US-Japanese defense agreement
• Laos: Independence
• South Vietnam: Smallpox
  Start of Communist attempts to overtake country
• Tibet: Flooding
• Vietnam: Siege of Vietnam's fortress Dien Bien Phu
  Geneva Conference divides North and South Vietnam set up with 17th parallel boundary with Vietminh
  French surrender at Dien Bien Phu

Europe

• General: Eurovision network formed
  France and W Germany sign cultural and economic agreement
  Concern in Europe and America about fallout and radioactive waste
  France US USSR and Britain discuss future of Germany – USSR insists on division between east and west
• Great Britain: Independent Television Authority established
  GPO tower in London designed
  Temple of Mithras excavated in London
  Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile
  Gordon Richards becomes first professional jockey to be knighted
  Tornado hits Liverpool
  Death of British philanthropist Seebohm Rowntree
  Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip begin Commonwealth tour
• Greece: Disturbances in Cyprus and Greece over union
• Italy: Absorbs Trieste as new territory - end of independence
• Soviet Union: USSR Central Observatory near Leningrad opened
  Malenkov becomes Premier of USSR
• Spain: Quake measures 7.9
• Switzerland: Grock the musical clown retires
• West Germany: Theodor Heuss elected President
• Yugoslavia: Marshall Tito visits Greece and India

Middle East

• Austria: Avalances in Alps kill
• Iran: Flooding
  3000 die in storm

Pacific

• Marshall Islands: Exposure to high doses of radiation – cancer doses high by 1974

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower

General

• Culture: Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio
• Entertainment: Gene Roddenberry is signed by Hollywood agent
  Top shows include The Jackie Gleason Show Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan and at #1 I Love Lucy
  19 million US homes have televisions
  Artists include Bill Haley and The Comets, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra
• Law: Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas rules segregation illegal
• Military: Hydrogen bomb tested on Bikini Island
  Fort Detrick begins experimenting with hepatitis, plague, yellow fever, encephalitis, Rift Valley Fever, rickettsia and microbes on Seventh Day Adventists
  CIA starts Projcet QKHILLTOP for brainwashing
• News: 1768 newspapers in US
• Politics: Roy Cohn resigns as Sen. Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel
  Senator Joseph R McCarthy continues anti-Communist activities culminating in televised hearing to prove infiltration into Army – - formal censure and condemnation by Senate resolution follows
  "Under God" added to pledge
  Eisenhower and Churchill meet in Washington and sign Potomac Charter
• Science: Concern in Europe and America about fallout and radioactive waste
  Robert Oppenheimer dismissed from government service and security clearance withdrawn
• Sports: World Series first broadcast in color
• Technology: US starts major domination of new technologies
  Revenue for television surpasses radio
  US launches nuclear powered Nautilus

East

• General: St. Lawrence Seaway project approved by Eisenhower
  Northeast United States hurricane
• New York: Tap dancer Gregory Hines makes Broadway debut
• Pennsylvania: Dr. Jonas Salk starts inocculations against polio in Pittsburg
• Rhode Island: Newport hurricane
  First annual Jazz festival at Newport

Midwest

• Illinois: World Council of Churches convened
• Missouri: Philadelphia Athletics baseball moves to Kansas City

South

• General: Hurricane Hazel hits the Carolinas
• Florida: Four inches of snow falls in Milton
• Mississippi: Oprah Winfrey born

West and Pacific

• Nevada: Three quakes over 6.6

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,302,240

Temples: 8

Other

• Utah debates over ownership of small colleges. Church volunteers to operate them, but voters prefer them in State custody
• President McKay visits S. Africa (first) and every existing mission of the Church
• Ricks College reverts back to 2 year status
• Indian Placement Program initiated
• Church College of Hawaii announced
• Age of ordination of teachers and priests lowered (was 15 and 17)
• Eisenhowers join Elder Benson and Marriot families for family home evening