3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 78

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Earl Franklin Lowe 56
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 53
Harry Chester Peterson 57
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 57

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 20
Peggy LaNae Peterson 16

General

Population: 3.00 Billion

• Culture: World Refugee Year proclaimed
• Entertainment: Anniversaries of Handel Haydn Purcell celebrated
  Artists include Chagall, Joan Miro,
  Writers include Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Françoise Sagan, Graham Greene, John Updike, Stanley Kunitz, Ian Fleming (Goldfinger), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Politics: UN pushes toward disarmament
• Religion: Pope John XXIII announces calling of first Ecumenical Council since 1870
• Science: Structure of viruses documented
  Leakey excavates at Olduvai gorge, discovers "Nutcracker Man" Australopithecus boisei
  Soviet spacecraft reaches moon
  Lejeune discovers Trisomy 21 cause
  Nobel prize for discovery of antiproton
  Alvarez discovers neutral xi-particle
  Nobel prize to Ochoa and Kornberg for their synthesis of RNA and DNA
• Sports: Frisbee introduced
  Edward B Elliott lands 97-pound blue catfish Heinz Wixhmann lands 92-pound Chinook salmon and Alfred Dean lands 2664 pound shark
• Technology: Minsky and McCarthy establish AI lab
  Jack Kirby and Robert N Noyce invent the microchip
  First hypersonic flight
• Deaths: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mario Lanza, Billie Holiday, Cecil B DeMille, Ethel Barrymore

Africa

• Angola: War
• Congo: Violence bordering on civil war against Belgians and other Europeans
  Estimated start of AIDS in Kinshasa
  Belgium grants reforms
• Côte d'Ivoire: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart
• Brunei: Negara Brunei adopts its first constitution
• Dahomey: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart
• Egypt: Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal
• Guinea: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart
• Kenya: Imprisoned leader released
  Mau-Mau guerrilla war against British ends
• Mali: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart
• Mauritania: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart
• Niger: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart
• Nyasaland: Disturbances in Nyasaland – Hastings Banda arrested
• Senegal: French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart - Senegal and French Sudan form Mali Federation to 1960
• South Africa: De Beers manufactures synthetic diamond
• Sudan: Dictator assumes power
• Tanganyika: Louis SB Leakey finds skull of "Nutcracker Man"
• Upper Volta: (Burkina Faso) French West Africa dissolved and breaks apart

Americas

• Canada: St. Lawrence Seaway is opened
• Cuba: End of Cuban Revolution, Castro and Communists to power driving out president Fulgencio Batista
  US-owned sugar mills appropriated
• Dominican republic: Cuban President Batista flees to Dominican Republic
• Haiti: Food shortage
• Mexico: Landslides in Minatitlan kill 5000

Asia

• Ceylon: (Sri Lanka) President Bandaranaike assassinated and wife becomes first woman prime minister in world
• Japan: Typhoon kills 5000
  Japanese doctor had deceased wife embalmed and sleeps next to her for ten years
• Laos: Hanoi sends weapons to guerrilla groups
• Singapore: Separation from China
• South Vietnam: Infiltration of S Vietnam begins via Ho Chi Minh Trail
• Tibet: Dalai Lama flees to India for safety as China crushes rebellion

Europe

• General: Oil discovered in North Sea
  European free Trade Association (The Seven) ratify treaty
• Cyprus: Archbishop Makarios returns – Cyprus becomes republic
• East Germany: Firm establishment of West Berlin
• France: De Gaulle re-instated as president
  Flooding in Frejus (French Riviera) when dam breaks and 412 killed
  Jean Louis Barrault becomes head of French theater
  De Gaulle proclaimed President of Fifth Republic of France
• Great Britain: TV Coverage of British General election
  First section of London-Birmingham Motorway opens
  Printing strike
  Macmillan visits former allied countries
• Ireland: De Valera becomes President of Eire
• Italy: Lightning storm
• Soviet Union: Luna 2 (Lunik) reaches the moon - Luna III transmits photographs of dark side of the moon
  U SSR launches rocket with monkeys aboard
  Khrushchev visits Albania and US Dyatlov Pass Incident – nine hikers in Ural Mountains abandon camp in only their underwear – large amounts of radiation detected
• Switzerland: Death of Grock the Swiss music clown
• West Germany: Becomes industrial power of W Europe
  Anti-Semitism flares at Cologne
  Death of German car racing champion Rudolf Caricciola
  Heinrich Lubke elected President

Middle East

• United Arab Republic: Britain and United Arab Republic resume diplomatic relations

Pacific

• Antarctica: Antarctic Treaty limits exploitation of Antarctica

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower

General

• Business: Production of the Edsel ends after two years with $00 million dollar loss
  President Eisenhower invokes Taft-Hartley Act to halt steelworkers' strike and longshoremen's strike
• Crime: Organized crime becomes focus of FBI
• Culture: US Postmaster General Summerfield bans TH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from mail on grounds of obscenity – overturned next year
• Entertainment: "The Day the Music Dies" with the death of Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper"
  Ben Hur wins eleven Academy Awards
  Debut of The Twilight Zone
  Cheating on quiz shows rumored
  "The Sound of Music" debuts as a musical on Broadway (not the film)
  Singer Ray Charles begins career
  Ruth Handler creates Barbie
• Politics: Khrushchev tours
  Eisenhower visits W German England India and eight other nations
• Science: US launches monkeys into space that successfully return - nicknamed Able and Miss Baker
  US artificial planet Pioneer 4 at Woomera
• Sports: Hula hoops reach 100 million in sales
  Frisbees invented
  Jack Nicklaus wins US Golf Amateur
• Technology: First US nuclear-powered merchant vessel "Savannah"

East

• New York: First International Congress of Oceanography held in NY
  New York City Council proposes the city become a separate (51st) state

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• California: Mt. Shasta records 189 inches of snow in 7 days
• Hawaii: 50th State
• Idaho: 182 accumulated inches of snow at Mullen Pass
• Montana: Earthquake kills 28

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,616,088

Temples: 12

Other

• "Every Member a Missionary" slogan adopted
• Members told to avoid shopping on Sundays
• Tabernacle Choir receives Grammy award
• The Kennedys meet with President McKay, but is impressed this time – Saints hesitant about voting for Roman Catholic,