3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 77

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 55
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 52
Harry Chester Peterson 56
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 56

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 19
Peggy LaNae Peterson 15

General

Population: 2.95 Billion

• Business: Legos invented
  Crayola introduces box of 64 crayons with sharpener
• Entertainment: Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright opened, Fire at Museum of Modern Art
  Writers include Boris Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago), Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's), TS Eliot, Graham Greene, J Edgar Hoover, Kafka, Lorraine Hansberry (Raisin in the Sun), Eugene O'Neill (posth)
  Boris Pasternak receives Nobel Prize for literature
• Medicine: Thalidomide proven to cause specific birth defects in limbs
  Wilson Greatbatch invents implantable pacemaker
• Politics: Gentleman's agreement in UN to not test nuclear devices
• Religion: Pope Pius XII dies and Pope John XXIII appointed (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Sotto il Monte) Opened Second Vatican Council (sometimes called "Good Pope John")
• Science: American scientist Lerner discovers the pineal body synthesizes melatonin which was made from serotonin
  Space probes reveal Van Allen radiation belts that impede travel
• Sports: First hula hoop fad begins to decline
  Eddie Arcaro becomes third jockey to attain over 4 thousand wins
• Technology: Silicon chip invented - TI develops first integrated circuit
  First Atomic submarine USS Nautilus voyages under N Pole
  First Boeing 707
• Deaths: Rosalind Franklin, Leopold Ziegler, Pope Pius XII, French painter Georges Rouault

Africa

• General: French colonies in Africa hold referenda on independence
• Egypt: Joins with Sudan and Yemen to form United Arab Republic
  USSR grants loan to United Arab Republic for building Aswan Dam
• Guinea: French colony chooses independence
• Middle Congo: Independence
• Nigeria: Independence begins
• Somalia: Independence begins
• Sudan: Coup
• Zaire: Independence

Americas

• General: Formation of Federation of British West Indies in Caribbean
  Heavy snow and zero visibility in Gulf of Mexico
• Colombia: Bogota Christmas fire kills 84
• Cuba: Castro begins to overthrow Batista regime
  West Indian Federation forms to protect trade in Cuba
• Jamaica: Vote to separate from West Indies Federation
• Mexico: Mateos becomes president

Asia

• Burma: New Burmese regime halts Communism
• China: Mao Tes-tung restricts family life and freedoms
  Mao's "Great Leap Forward" establishes agrarian and industrial communes
  Khrushchev visits Peking
  Start of Great Chinese Famine killing 20-43 million by 1961
• East Indonesia: Smallpox and cholera
• East Pakistan: Smallpox and cholera
• India: Smallpox and cholera
• Japan: Typhoon kills 615
  Mt. Aso erupts
• Laos: Adoption anti-Communism with US support
• North Korea: Agricultural collectivization
• Papua New Guines: Republic established

Europe

• General: Beatnik movement spreads throughout US and Europe
  England and Spain sign trade pact
  European Common Market comes into being
• Belgium: Brussels World Exhibition
• East Germany: Berlin Crisis begins as USSR attempts to force allies out of West Berlin
• France: Charles de Gaulle elected first president of the French Fifth Republic to 1969
  End of Fourth Republic
• Great Britain: First parking meters in London
  London bus strike
  First life peerages in Britain
  Last debutantes presented at British court
  Prince Charles made Prince of Wales
  First superhighway opens in Britain
  US-born serial killer Peter Manuel hung for seven murders
  Actor Gareth Jones dies while in make-up in between scenes in Manchester and the play goes on with improvisation
• Hungary: Imre Nagy executed after secret trial
• Soviet Union: Khrushchev ousts Bulganin taking control of USSR
  Complete works of Tolstoy published in USSR
  Khrushchev succeeds Bulganin as Chairman of Council of USSR Ministers
• Vatican City: Death of Pope Pius XII – Cardinal Roncalli elected Pope John XXIII - announced with tiny grey puff of smoke instead of white plume

Middle East

• Iraq: Nationalist revolution led by Abdul Kassem overthrows monarchy and establishes republic
• Israel: Supreme Religious Center for World Jewry dedicated in Jerusalem
• Jordan: Britain moves troops in
• Lebananon: US moves troops in
• Pakistan: Ayub Khan assumes presidency
  Pakistani cricket team tours US
  Cholera and Smallpox
• Saudi Arabia: King Saud transfers power to brother Emir Faisal
  Kind Faisal II assassinated and republic declared
• Syria: Joins United Arab Republic
• United Arab Republic: Organized from Syria and Egypt with Yemen loosely aligned
• Yemen: Loosely aligned with United Arab Republic

Pacific

• Australia: 97 inches of rain falls in four hours

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower

General

• Business: Ford Edsel with "lemon" grill debuts - is a flop
• Crime: Nathon Leopold paroled (see 1924)
• Culture: Beatnik movement spreads throughout US
  CBS airs Mike Wallace and Louis Lomax's documentary The Hate that Hate Produced giving the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X prominence
• Entertainment: Marilyn Monroe stars in Some Like it Hot
  Dr. Zhivago book smuggled into and published in US
  Chipmunk Song reaches top of music charts
• Finance: Unemployment in US reaches almost 5.2 million
• Military: 300 Navy members exposed to radiation in Pacific
• Politics: Vice President Nixon tours S America and Eisenhower sends troops to Caribbean
• Science: NASA established to explore space
  US launches first moon rocket – fails to reach moon but travels 79k miles out
  First US Satellite (Explorer I)
• Sports: Arnold Palmer US golfer wins his first Masters tournament
  "Sugar" Ray Robinson regains middleweight boxing title
• Technology: First US satellite launched
  First Atomic submarine USS Nautilus voyages under N Pole

East

• General: Northeast US has storms that kill 500,
• New York: Love Canal residents begin to complain of skin problems and nausea
  Nelson A. Rockefeller elected Governor
• Pennsylvania: Blizzard hits Allentown

Midwest

• Nebraska: Start of killing spree of Charles Starkweather

South

• Arkansas: Tension grows as southern schools desegregated - Governor Orval Faubus defies supreme court by closing schools in Little Rock and reopening them as private schools
• Florida: 2500 gallon tank blown 1 mile in FL tornado, Jun - First tornado seen on Doppler radar

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Statehood at #49
  Radioactive materials dropped over Point Hope Alaska by US Atomic Energy Commission
  Lituya Bay (AK) mega tsunami - landslide causes mega-tsunami which reaches 164 stories high, fortunately only in AK
  Quakes
• California: New York Dodgers and Giants move to California
• New Mexico: 14.2 inches of snow in Albuquerque

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,555,799

Temples: 12

11. Hamilton, New Zealand
12. London, England

Other

• Program for convert integration initiated
• Church College of Hawaii dedicated (later BYU-Hawaii)
• Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs for Eisenhowers
• First "Overseas" stake in New Zealand organized