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Earl Franklin Lowe 60
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 57
Harry Chester Peterson 61
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 61

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 24
Peggy LaNae Peterson 20

General

Population: 3.21 Billion

• Art: Robert Rauchenberg, Jasper Johns and others show pop art
  Hans Scharoun (Berlin Philharmonic), Richard Lippold, Andy Warhol work
  Renewed world-wide interest in Art Nouveau
• Entertainment: "The Band" forms
  Films: "The Birds" (Hitchcock), "Dr. Strangelove" (Kubrick and Sellers), King Kong versus Godzilla – two endings
  MUSIC: Menotti, Samuel Barber, Popular musicians include Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
  Robert Frost writes, and Gunter Grass, John Updike
• Finance: G30 (Group of 30) meets at Bellagio to discuss international finance and international monetary system
• Medicine: Chimp kidney transplanted into human – fails
  De Bakey first uses artificial heart in surgeryli>
• Politics: Sino-Soviet split as Mao and Khrushchev split
  Nuclear Test Ban Treaty by US GBR and USSR
• Religion: Death of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI (GIovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (Concesio)) appointed
• Science: Kenyapithecus wickeri discovered in Africa - 12 million years old
  Tiros II weather satellite launched
  Quasars discovered – super-bright stars
  Magnetic stripes discovered at ocean ridges by Vine and Matthews suggesting continental drift
  Anti-xi-zeno discovered
  Hodgkin and Eccles work on transmission of nerve impulses
  Oppenheimer receives Enrico Fermi medal for work
  Start of major bee die-off with Disappearing Disease
• Technology: Friction welding invented
• Deaths: Robert Frost, C.S. Lewis, Jean Cocteau, John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, Sylvia Path, baseball great Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby, Elsa Maxwell – internationally known party-giver

Africa

• General: OAU (Organization of African Unity) formed
• Congo: Katanga returns to Congo rule
• Katanga: See Congo
• Kenya: State of emergency ends with independence under Jomo Kenyatta
• Zanzibar: Independence from Britain

Americas

• General: 4000 in Cuba and Haiti in hurricane
• Cuba: Castro visits USSR

Asia

• China: More aide promised to North Vietnam
• East Pakistan: Storm kills 22,000
• India: Famine
  Cyclone
• Indonesia: Netherlands New guinea becomes part of Indonesia as Irian Jaya
  Agung erupts killing 1200
• Japan: Quake in Kuril Islands measure 8.5
• Malay: See Malaysia
• Malaysia: Federation of Malaysia includes Malay, North Borneo, Sabah and Sarawak, and Singapore - under Tunku Abdul Rahman become independent
• Vietnam: War begins when South Vietnamese government overthrown by Buddhist monks - China backs North and US backs South under President Diem
  Buddhist monk Thích Quang Dúc dies of self imolation in an interstate

Europe

• General: Nuclear testing ban signed by US USSR and Britain
• France: Veto of British membership in EEC
• Great Britain: Alec Douglas-Home new Prime Minister of Britain
  Death of Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell - Harold Winson succeeds Beatles release their first full album
  British journalist Philby granted asylum in USSR
  Goya exhibition in London
  British Secretary of State for War has affair with showgirl and eventually leads to resignation - known as Porfumo Affair
  American astronomer Hawkins demonstrates the calendar aspects of Stonehenge
  65 inches of snow falls on Tredegar Wales
  Start of Moors murders in England by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley – killing children to 1965
  Dr. Who premiers on BBC
  Glascow-London mail robbery nets 2.5 million pounds
  Hilton Hotel in London opened
  Coldest Jan and Feb since 1740 in Britain
• Greece: Greek liner Lakonia sinks killing 150
• Iceland: Sea starts to bil and Isle of Surtsey forms with eruption
• Italy: Landslide and heavy rains in Belluno
  Vajont Dam bursts in Italian Alps causing tsunami-like flood that kills 1450-2000
• Soviet Union: US signs Limited Test Ban Treaty
  First female in space - Valentina Tereshkova
• Vatican City: Death of Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI (Cardinal Montini) appointed
• West Germany: Adenauer resigns as Chancellor and Ludwig Erhard rules
• Yugoslavia: Earthquake kills nearly 1100 (also Macedonia)

Middle East

• General: United Arab Republic, Syria, and Iraq agree to unite
• Israel: New prime minister

Pacific

• Australia: Milliam MacDonald in Australia arrested for being "Sydney Mutilator"
• Tasmania: Woman in Tasmania bitten by black bulldog and and was dead 15 minutes later

President:

Pres: John F. Kennedy assassinated
Pres: Lindon B. Johnson sworn in

General

• Headlines: President Kennedy assassinated
• Crime: Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby on live television - first televised murder
• Culture: Civil Rights DC march in Aug 28 "I have a Dream"
  Winston Churchill becomes honorary citizen of US
  Malcolm X makes statement about Kennedy assassination and is censured by Nation of Islam
  US Freedom marches by civil rights' protesters
  "Smiley face" invented
• Entertainment: French Chef with Julia Child debuts
• Environment: Carson publishes Silent Spring - Environmentalist movement increases
• Finance: 6.1 percent unemployment
• Law: Abington School District v. Schempp re-asserts separation of church and state - School Bible reading and prayer declared unconstitutional
• Medicine: African-American patients injected with cancer – Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital – done by Chester Southam – -later president of American Cancer Society
• Military: "Credibility Gap" between reports in Vietnam and actual happenings
  US and USSR agree on "hot line" from white house to Kremlin "Red phone"
  Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• News: CBS and NBC start airing news - newspapers decline
  US invents ZIP codes
• Politics: Kennedy visits P.M. Macmillan
• Religion: School Bible reading and prayer declared unconstitutional Schempp v. Abington Township
• Science: US astronaut Gordon Cooper orbits
• Sports: Jack Nicklaus wins first Masters', Second time Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson
• Deaths: Kennedy comments about his very method of death a few hours before it happened

East

• New York: Esquire magazine reports a house in New Hyde Park burns as fire departments argue over whose jurisdiction the house was in
  Da Vinci's Mona Lisa exhibited
  MOMA in NY exhibits works from Hans Hofmann
• Washington D.C.: "I Have a Dream" speech given before 250,000 at Lincoln Memorial
  Mona Lisa exhibited

Midwest

• Ohio: Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 65

South

• Alabama: Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church
  Dr. King's march to Birmingham - fire hoses used on demonstrators - 3000 troops called out and Dr. King arrested
  NAACP field secretary murdered
• Mississippi: Medgar Evers assassinated in Jackson

West and Pacific

• California: Newborns at U of California receive catheter and have feet dipped in ice pater - also inverted on board to test blood pressure
• Oregon: State Prison inmates given $100 for testicular radiation and vasectomies - some injected with radioactive thymidine
• Utah: Potash mine explosion in Moab kills 18
  JFK delivers major foreign policy speech in tabernacle in Salt Lake
• Washington: U of Washington researchers irradiate testes of 232 inmates, and babies born with defects

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 2,117,451

Temples: 12

Other

• Polynesian Cultural Center dedicated
• Granite vaults completed in Little Cottonwood Canyon
• Church membership reaches two million
• Belle Spafford attends civil rights meeting at President Kennedy's request
• Missionaries in Germany welcome President Kennedy
• North Visitor's Center in SLC created