3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 75

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 53
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 50
Harry Chester Peterson 54
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 54

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 17
Peggy LaNae Peterson 13

General

Population: 2.83 Billion

• Entertainment: Brigitte Bardot appears in first mainstream film launching stardom
  Films include The Man with the Golden Arm, Romeo and Juliet, The King and I, The Ten Commandments
  Music includes Stravinsky, Bernstein (Candide), Lerner and Loewe (My Fair Lady)
  "Rock and Roll" dance in vogue
  Writers include Goodrich and Hackett (Anne Frank drama), Grace Metalious (Peyton Place), John F Kennedy, WS Churchill,
• Medicine: Four new antibiotics tested in US
  Oral vaccine developed against polio by Albert Sabin
• Science: Neutrino produced at Los Alamos Labs
  Antineutron discovered by Cork Lambertson Piccioni and Wenzel
  "Dido" reactor opened in England
  FW Muller develops the ion microscope
  Bell Telephone develops "visual telephone" MD Ross and ML Lewis reach height of 22.8 miles in balloon
  Meteorite impact and dinosaur extinction linked – not taken seriously until 1980s
  Runcorn publishes on polar wandering and continental drift
• Technology: Early computer languages developed
  Transatlantic cable telephone service inaugurated
• Deaths: Bela Lugosi – buried in Dracula cape, Alfred Kinsey, Jackson Pollock, Erich Kleiber, founder of IBM Thomas J Watson, Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack), Fred Allen

Africa

• Egypt: Anglo-French forces invade after nationalization of Suez Canal
  Nasser elected president
  Israel attacks
  British refuse to fund Aswan High Dam
• Libya: Italian North Africa changes name
• Morocco: Independence from France
• Nigeria: Representative government promised
• Sudan: Independence
• Tunisia: Independence from France

Americas

• Bahamas: Anthony Eden leaves London to recuperate in Jamaica – RA Butler named Deputy Prime Minister
• Colombia: Dynamite truck convy explodes in Cali kills 1200
• Cuba: Beginning of revolution
• Grenada: Hurricane kills 230
• Haiti: President overthrown

Asia

• Cambodia: Prince Sihanouk adopts neutrality
• Ceylon: Bandaranaike becomes president (Sri Lanka)
• China: Typhoon Wanda hits IN hANGCHOW KILLING 1960
• India: Nehru visits Bonn Germany
• Indonesia: Last links with Dutch crown severed
• Japan: Peace with USSR
  Admission to UN

Europe

• General: Bitter cold in Europe kills 907
• Antilles: Cyclone
• Cyprus: Archbishop Makarios transported from Cyprus to the Seychelles
• France: Blizzard and gale stretches from England to Siberia
• Great Britain: Beatles (called the Quarrymen) organize
  English Stage Company at Royal Court Theater London
  Brecht's Berliner Ensemble visits England
  British bank interest rate raised to highest rate since 1932
• Greece: King Paul I and Queen Frederika of Greece visit Bonn
• Hungary: Hungarians revolt under Nagy against Soviets - crushed by Warwaw pact - Hungarian revolution
  Cardinal Wyszynski released from prison, Cardinal Mindszenty released
  Revolt leads to martial law and mass arrests
• Karelia: Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes Republic of Karelia
• Monaco: Grace Kelly releases last film and marries Prince Rainier III
• Poland: Rebellion against Soviets repressed
• Soviet Union: Khrushchev rules USSR and initiates de-Stalinization as "cult of personality" - At the 20th Soviet Communist Party Conference Khrushchev denounces Stalin's policy
  Bulganin and Khrushchev visit Britain
• Yugoslavia: Nehru-Tito-Nasser conference held in Yugoslavia
  Tito and Khrushchev meet in the Crimea
  Palace of Emperor Diocletian excavated
  Tito meets Nasser in Cairo and visits Moscow

Middle East

• Iraq: Smallpox
• Israel: Acceptance of UN truce proposal
• Jordan: Acceptance of UN truce proposal
• Pakistan: Becomes Islamic republic

Pacific

• Australia: Olympic games at Melbourne
  Kimberly Coast cyclone

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower reelected over Adlai Stevenson

General

• Crime: Victor Riesel US columnist blinded by acid thrown by a gangster - four months later labor racketeer Johnny Dio indicted for conspiracy with six others
• Culture: Martin Luther King emerges as leader of campaign for desegregation
  American Jack O'Leary ends 8 years of hiccups after praying to St. Jude – patron saint of hopeless causes
• Entertainment: Novel Peyton Place published shocking conservative public
  The Wizard of Oz first shown on TV
  Artists include Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Little Richard
• Law: Segregation on US busses declared unconstitutional
• Politics: Eisenhower and P.M. Eden issue Declaration of Washington
• Sports: Rocky Marciano retires undefeated from boxing and Floyd Patterson takes new title
• Technology: Ampec Corporation demonstrates first practical VCR
  First Mach 3 flight

East

• Massachusetts: Andrea Doria sinks after collision with Stockholm off Nantucket
  St. Patrick's Day storm hits Boston with 20 inches of snow
• New York: US soprano Maria Callas debuts
  Coliseum opens
  "My Fair Lady" and Sammy Davis Jr. debut on Broadway,

Midwest

South

• Alabama: Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
• Florida: US Army releases mosquitoes with yellow fever and dengue
• Georgia: US Army releases mosquitoes with yellow fever and dengue

West and Pacific

• California: Cleveland National Forest fire started by 16 year old Inaja Indian who threw a match in the grass

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,416,731

Temples: 10

10. Los Angeles, California

Other

• First missionaries in Peru when Frederick S. Williams relocates then gets permission to organize. Missionaries arrive later this year.
• First campus wards and stakes at BYU
• Relief Society Building dedicated
• Priesthood training organized
• Elder Benson campaigns for Eisenhower