3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 79

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 57
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 54
Harry Chester Peterson 58
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 58

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 21
Peggy LaNae Peterson 17

General

Population: 3.04 Billion

• Entertainment: Writers include Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons), Ezra Pound, Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird), Gore Vidal, Sartre
  Films include Exodus, Psycho (Hitchcock), The Entertainer (Olivier)
• Fashion: Pierre Cardin licenses name for products
  Mary Quant in London launches "Twiggy" look
• Medicine: Outbreak of El Tor cholera worldwide
• Religion: Women no longer required to cover heads in Catholic Church
• Science: Sandage and Matthews discover quasars
  Jane Goodall begins chimp observations
  US launches radio-reflector satellite
  Optical microwave laser constructed
  RL Mossbauer makes gamma ray discoveries
  Strell and Woodward independently synthesize chlorophyll
  KH Hofmann synthesizes pituitary hormone
  GN Robinson discovers methicillin
  Triton submarine circumnavigates globe under water
  US scientists develop laser device
  USA and FRA dive in bathyscaphe Trieste to 35,800 feet in Pacific trench "Challenger Deep" (deepest dive)
  First weather satellite Tiros I launched to show cloud cover on TV
  Large solar flare recorded causing disturbances
  Pole shift evidence discovered
  Hardy promotes aquatic ape hypothesis
• Sports: 296 pound yellowfin tuna caught by Dr. A Cordeiro
• Technology: Pioneer V launched - first with working laser
  Theodore Maiman builds first working laser
• Death: Oscar Hammerstein II, Albert Camus, Boris Pasternak, Clark Gable, Maurice de Broglie, Sylvia Pankhurst suffragette leader, Emily Post,

Africa

• General: Move to independence
  French nuclear tests in the Sahara
• Angola: President leaves and attempted revolution suppressed
• Chad: Independence from French Equatorial Afirca
• Congo: Mutiny against ruling Belgians - name change from Belgian Congo
• Dahomey: Independence and renamed from French West Africa (Later Benin)
• Egypt: Work begins on Aswan High Dam financed by USSR
• Gabon: Independence from French Equatorial Africa
• Katanga: Independence from Congo to 1963
• Kenya: Splits from British East Africa
• Mali: Mali Federation renamed Mali
• Middle Congo: Independence from French Equatorial Africa
• Morocco: Earthquake and tsunami kill 12,000
  Independence
• Nigeria: Independence
• Senegal: Breaks apart from Mali Federation
• Somalia: Independence and name change from British Somaliland
• South Africa: Withdrawal from commonwealth
  Police kill 67 blacks in Sharpeville massacre
• Sudan: Independence - changes name to Mali Republic
  Civil war
• Tanganyika: Split from British East Africa
• Ubangi-Shari: Independence from French Equatorial Africa (also called Central African Republic)
• Uganda: Splits from British East Africa
• Zaire: Independence
  Civil war
• Zanzibar: Split from British East Africa

Americas

• General: Latin America forms weak alliance for trade - Central American Common Market formed with El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
• Brazil: Defective rabies serum leaves 120 ill
  Brasilia founded as capital, replacing Rio
• Canada: Native Canadians (Indians) given the vote
• Chile: 9.2-9.5 Earthquake in Valdiva and tsunami kill at least 5700 - largest recorded
  Eruptions and quakes
• Guatemala: Guatemala City Insane Asylum fire kills 225
• Puerto Rico: Hurricane

Asia

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge guerillas active
• China: Treaty with Nepal
  Alliance with Soviets dissolve
• East Pakistan: Cyclone and wave kills 10,000
• India: Cyclone and waves
• Japan: Japanese socialist Inejiro Asanuma stabbed to death on live television
• North Vietnam: Hanoi forms National Liberation Front to operate in South
• Philippines: Typhoon Lucille follows wave caused by Chilean earthquake
• South Korea: Leader Syngman Rhee rescued by CIA after fixing election and embezzling - alleged election fraud
• Tibet: Chinese take control and Dalai Lama flees

Europe

• General: Former Gestapo chief Adolf Eichmann arrested
  European Free Trade forms with AUS, DEN, POR, GBR, NOR, SWE, SWI but starts to fall apart in 1973 when some countries leave for EEC
• Belgium: King Baudouin marries Dona Fabiola of Spain
• Cyprus: Independent republic with Archbishop Makarios as president
• France: Khrushchev, Macmillan, Eisenhower, and de Gaulle meet in Paris but talks fail
• Great Britain: Archbishop Fisher of Canterbury visits Jerusalem, Istanbul, and Rome
  Picasso exhibition at Tate Gallery London
  Churchill College at Cambridge founded
  Prince Andrew born to Elizabeth II – first monarch to give birth since 1857 – Princess Margaret marries
• Ireland: First sighting of Monster of Lough Brin – like a seal and dragon
• Italy: Olympic Games in Rome
• Soviet Union: American U2 reconnaissance plane shot down with pilot Gary Powers
  Khrushchev visits India, Burma, and Indonesia
  Brezhnev becomes President of USSR
  Nedelin disaster – 100 Soviet rocket technicians die when rocket ignites
• Sweden: Three women admitted to ministry of Swedish Lutheran Church
• West Germany: Neo-Nazi groups banned in Germany

Middle East

• General: OPEC formed in middle east
• Afghanistan: Ex-King Amanullah dies
• North Yemen: Joins United Arab Republic to 1961
• Syria: Fire kills 152 children at film program
• Turkey: Coup

Pacific

• Antarctica: Antarctica reserved for scientific research by International agreement

President:

Pres: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pres: John F. Kennedy elected over Richard Nixon

General

• Crime: Caryl Chessman executed after 12 years of appeals at San Quentin
• Culture: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee founded
• Entertainment: Payola scandal - Dick Clark must testify before congress regarding Alan Freed
  Camelot debuts on Broadway Dances include Chubby Checker's "Twist"
  Psycho becomes most graphic and sensational movie of the day
  Charles Van Doren arrested for perjury in game show "21" scandal
• Medicine: American Heart Association issues report on death and smoking
• Military: U2 reconnaissance plane shot down over Soviet Union with pilot Francis Gary Powers
• Politics: Historic TV debates between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon with viewership of 70 million
• Science: Pioneer V launched - first working laser
• Sports: Bobby Fischer age 16 defends chess title
  Floyd Patterson regains heavyweight boxing title
  Arnold Palmer wins US Open
• Technology: US experimental rocket-powered airplane travels almost 2200 mph

East

• General: Hurricane from New England south

Midwest

• Ohio: Start of high-dose radiation to cancer patients in Cincinnati – low-IQ negroes experimented on

South

• General: Heavy snows cause buildings to collapse
  Hurricane hits east coast down to Florida
• Louisiana: Ruby Bridges of New Orleans desegregates the 1st grade
• North Carolina: Four black youths stage sit-in in Greensboro

West and Pacific

• Hawaii: Chilean quake causes tsunami
• Utah: Glen Canyon Dam begins construction

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,693,180

Temples: 12

Other

• Firesides created for youth
• Former President Hoover pens intro to Ezra Taft Benson's book "So Shall Ye Reap"
• Kennedy meets twice with Church leaders - leaders seem to like him
• Senator Lindon Johnson meets with first presidency
• Nixon visits SLC and President McKay (Republican) mentioned that he hopes Nixon wins, but this is mistakenly reported as Church endorsement
• First doctorate degrees given at BYU
• Building program begins in Europe
• Correlation committee for curriculum created
• Young men allowed to serve missions without former educational and military qualifications