3

Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 81 died

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 59
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 56
Harry Chester Peterson 60
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 60

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 23
Peggy LaNae Peterson 19

General

Population: 3.14 Billion

• Art: Dali and Picasso auction off paintings to raise funds
  Oskar Kokoschka, Jean Renoir
  Music includes Shostakovich
• Entertainment: Lawrence of Arabia debuts
  Albee publishes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Beatles' Love Me Do released
  Films include "Lawrence of Arabia" "Cleopatra" (Burton and Taylor) "The Manchurian Candidate"
• Environment: "Silent Spring" published
• Fashion: Yves St. Laurent opens fashion house
• Finance: Trade Expansion Act passed
• Literature: Writers include John Steinbeck, Camus, William Faulkner, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Robert Bolt (Man For All Seasons), Charles M Schultz, Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Rachel Carson (Silent Spring),
• Medicine: German measles outbreak leaves 30,000 dead with babies born deaf and blind
  Anti-nausea drug thalidomide causes birth defects
• Military: Britain and US reserve right to keep nuclear testing
• Politics: U Thant elected UN secretary general
• Religion: Vatican II convenes to institute reforms
• Science: Watson and Crick win Nobel Prize for DNA
  Neel develops thrifty genotype hypothesis for fat storage
  Mariner 2 passes Venus
• Technology: First communications satellite launched - Telestar - and Comsat system created - First live broadcasts between US and Europe
  Color TV first broadcast
  Microchips invented
• Death: William Falkner, Hermann Hesse, QUeen Wilhelmina of Holland, Niels Bohr, Adolf Eichmann, ee cummings, Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt

Africa

• General: Loose confederation proposed
• Algeria: End of war against French rule - Independence
  Ahmed Ben Bella named Premier
• Burundi: Ruanda-Urundi leaves Belgian/UN control and splits forming Burundi and Rwanda
• Congo: Adoula arrested
• Kenya: Locusts
• Rwanda: Ruanda-Urundi leaves Belgian/UN control and splits forming Burundi and Rwanda
• South Africa: Death of Solomon Linda (Ntsele) musician who did original "Mbube" (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
• Tanganyika: Schools closed because of six month outbreak of contagious laughter
  Independence
• Uganda: Independence

Americas

• Bahamas: Kennedy and P.M. MacMillan meet in Nassau
• Brazil: Drought and fire
• British West Indies: Independence
• Cuba: Expelled from OAS (Latim American negotiations)
  Cuban Missile Crisis as Soviet bases discovered
• Jamaica: Independence
• Peru: 4000 killed in avalanche and landslide
• Suriname: Netherlands Guiana renamed
• Trinidad and Tobago: Independence

Asia

• General: China challenges India in the Himilayas
• South Korea: Export-led growth
  Leader condemned to death
• South Vietnam: Australian troops and American advisors sent - the US troops

Europe

• Austria: New Festival Theater created
• France: Attempt on life of Charles de Gaulle
  Georges Pompidou forms government
  Georges Auric appointed head of French national opera
• Great Britain: Beatles sign to EMI's Parlophone label with new drummer Ringo Starr
  Immigration limited
  London fog kills 136
  BBC starts satirical revue "That Was the Week That Was"
  Coventry Cathedral consecrated
  Royal College of Physicians issues first report on smoking and health
  Commonwealth Immigrants Act passed in Britain to control immigration
  "Sunday Times" issues first colored supplement
• Italy: Annexation of Tavolara
• Soviet Union: Khrushchev calls Mao Zedong an "old boot" in Chinese, not knowing that this is slang for a prostitute - split between Russia and China
  U-2 pilot Frances Gary Powers is traded for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel
  Khrushchev says he'll withdraw from Cuba if US removes missiles from Turkey – offer rejected
  USSR scientist Chudinov revives fossil algae after 250 million years
• Spain: Flash flood in Barcelona
• Switzerland: Disarmament conference in Geneva
• Vatican City: Second Vatican Council opens in Rome
• West Germany: North Sea flooding with broken dykes

Middle East

• Iran: Earthquake in north kills 10,000

Pacific

• Samoa: Western Samoa becomes independent member of British Commonwealth

President:

Pres: John F. Kennedy

General

• Business: K-Mart opens as national chain
• Culture: Mass hysteria in textile factory over fear of illness due to june bugs
  Civil rights protests in US and growth of Black Power movement through 1966
  Joseph W Charles begins waving to cars – continues for 30 years,
• Entertainment: Johnny Carson takes over "The Tonight Show"
• Finance: Trade Expansion Act passed
• Law: Engel V. Vitale clarifies separation of church and state, school prayer banned
• Medicine: FDA requires three human clinical trials before approval – many pharmaceutical companies do phase 1 on prison inmates
  German measles outbreak leaves babies blind and deaf to 1965
• News: Printed papers at maxiin, including nine dailies in New York
• Science: John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth
• Sports: Sonny Liston beats Floyd Patterson in heavyweight boxing upset
  Golf - Jack Nicklaus wins first major professional title and Palmer wins Masters
• Technology: Color television broadcast

East

• Maine: Worst blizzard produces 42 inches of snow
• Maryland: Experimental acne antibiotics causes severe liver damage
• Massachusetts: Protestant Episcopal Church consecrates first black bishop in US
• Pennsylvania: Mine disaster kills 37

Midwest

South

• Florida: 17 killed by tornado in Milton
  12-degree temps destroy citrus crop in north moving production south
• Mississippi: U of Mississippi integrated by Supreme Court ruling - riots break out when James Meredith attends under help of 3000 soldiers
• Texas: Sheppard Air Force Base in Witchita Falls TX hit with tornado

West and Pacific

• Utah: Lindon Johnson visits
• Washington: Seattle records first tornado

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 1,965,786

Temples: 12

Other

• Mission age lowered to 19 from 20
• First Spanish-speaking stake in Mexico City
• General Conference first held on shortwave radio WRUL - seminar for Authorities and presidents of stakes outside North America
• Wilkinson protests that Kennedy's New Frontier was socialistic
• Idaho Congressman Harding gives Kennedy Book of Mormon – first edition for Church library
• Nixon speaks at LDS youth conference in California – later loses race for governor of California