Here's what was happening in 1927, the year President Monson was born.
•President Heber J. Grant dedicated the Mesa Arizona Temple—the seventh temple in the world. (The other six temples were in St. George, Logan, Manti, and Salt Lake City, Utah; Laie, Hawaii; and Cardston, Alberta, Canada.) There now are 134 operating temples.
•Charles Lindbergh flew an airplane from New York to Paris—the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
•The television was invented by a Latter-day Saint young man named Philo T. Farnsworth.
What are some of the changes that have happened in President Monson's lifetime?
President Monson reads the note on the jar of "warm fuzzies."
Photograph by Kristy Cannegieter; warm fuzzy instruction illustrations by Brian Bean; airplane photo © Getty Images; Philo Farnsworth photo courtesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
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