2

Earl Franklin Lowe 61
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 58
Harry Chester Peterson 62
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 62

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 25 (married)
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 21

General

Population: 3.28 Billion

• Entertainment: Writers include Saul Bellow, William Golding, Sartre, CP Snow, Gore Vidal, Arthur Miller, Ernest Hemingway (posth), John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., Randolph Churchill
  Picasso paints
  Films include "Lord of the Flies" "A Hard Day's Night" "Goldfinger" "Zorba the Greek" "Mary Poppins" "My Fair Lady"
  Music includes Gustav Mahler, Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly), Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Fashion: George Barrie buys Faberge and introduces Brut cologne
• Science: Harland and Rudwick publish theory of ice age in late Precambrian
  Homo habilus described by Leakey
  Fundamental partical omega-minus discovered using Nimrod-cyclotron
  Hoyle and Marlikar postulate new gravitational theory
• Technology: Tough-tone phone service begins
• Deaths: General Douglas MacArthur, Herbert Hoover, Cole Porter, Maxwell William Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), Ian Fleming (ENG), Peter Lorre, Silent Spring author Rachel Carson
  Founder of cybernetice Norbert Wiener

Africa

Algeria: Explosion when ship in harbor loaded with ammunition ignites

Congo: Moise Tshombe becomes Premier and declares People's Republic

Kenya: Republic with omo Kenyatta as president

Nyasaland: Split from Rhodesia - see Malawi

Malawi: Smallpox outbreak
Independence (See Rhodesia)

Rhodesia: Splits to Nyasaland (later Malawi), Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia), and Southern Rhodesia (later Rhodesia and Zimbabwe) - Ian Smith elected Premier of S Rhodesia

Tanganyika: see Tanzania

Tanzania: Zanzibar and Tanganyika unite to form new country - Julius Nyerere presides

Zambia: Independence (See Rhodesia) - Kenneth Kaunda becomes President

Zanzibar: see Tanzania - declared a republic – sultan banished

Americas

• Canada: Queen Elizabeth visits
  Tsunami from Alaska quake
• Chile: Villarrica erupts
• Haiti: Hurricane
• Panama: Riots in Canal Zone
• Peru: 300 spectators killed in soccer riot in Lima

Asia

• General: War between Indonesia and Malaysia
• China: Flooding in Mekong delta
• East Pakistan: Storm, tornado and flood kills 500
• India: President Pandit Nehru dies – succeeded as Prime Minister by Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Japan: Olympic Games in Tokyo
  Flood
  Earthquake and tsunami
• Java: Famine
• Philippines: Storms including typhoon
• Vietnam: War between Communist North and US-backed South
  Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passes
  US asserts military to resist aggression
  Tongking (Tonkin) Gulf Crisis
  USS Maddox allegedly attacked

Europe

• General: Princess Irene of Netherlands marries Spanish Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma
• Cyprus: Fighting between Greeks and Turks in - UN troops sent to maintain peace - General Grivas named commander of Greek Cypirot forces – Makarios abrogates 1960 treaty between Greece Turkey and Cyprus but Greece rejects direct talks
• France: De Gaulle tours S America
• Great Britain: Alec Douglas-Home resigns as British Prime Minister succeeded by Harold Wilson - Labour Party
  Exploration of North Sea for oil and gas
  Winston Churchill makes last appearance before House of Commons shortly before 90th birthday
  British bank raises interest rate to 7 percent
  Harold Wilson visits Washington
  Shakespeare Quartercentenary Expo
  The Windmill Theater of London "We Never Close" closes as vaudeville theater
  "Art of a Decade" expo in London
  "Brain Drain" British scientists emigrate to US
  British government changes August Bank Holiday to last Monday in month
  Easter outbreak of Mods v. Rockers disturb British sea resorts
  Sentences totaling 307 years for British mail-train robbers
  "Daily Herald" in London closes
  death of British cricketer Sir Jack Hobbs
• Greece: King Paul I of Greece dies and son Constantine II rules
• Malta: Independence in Commonwealth
• Soviet Union: Khrushchev removed from power and Brezhnev leads
  Kosygin becomes premier
  Chou En-lai visits Moscow

Middle East

• General: Arafat takes over leadership of Arab guerrilla force Al Fatah
• Israel: Pope Paul VI makes pilgrimage to the Holy Land
• Palestine: PLO organized in Palestine/Jerusalem
  Storms kill 332
• Saudi Arabia: King Faud deposed and son Faisal proclaimed king

Pacific

• Australia: Final hanging of Eric Edgar Cooke who randomly killed strangers

President:

Pres: Lindon B. Johnson elected over Republican Barry Goldwater

General

• Crime: Jack Ruby sentenced to death for killing Lee Harvey Oswald – dies of cancer next year
  Race riots in US cities
  Commission appointed by President Johnson under Chief Justice Earl Warren concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
  James Hoffa president of Teamsters Union found guilty of jury tampering and sentenced
• Culture: Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Prize
  Smiley face symbol invented – not trademarked
• Education: Start of decline of SAT scores nationwide
• Entertainment: Beatlemania follows arrival and appearance on Ed Sullivan
  "Bewitched" "Gomer Pyle USMC" and "The Fugitive" reach top tv
  Musical artists include The Beatles, The Drifters, Herman's Hermits, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys
  "The Munsters" debuts
  "Fiddler on the Roof" "Hello Dolly" and "Funny Girl" debut on Broadway
  Sidney Portier wins Academy Award
  Popular dances include Watusi, Frug, Monkey, Funky Chicken, and other varieties of the twist – go-go dancers popular
  Addams Family debuts on television based on Charles Addams cartoons in the New Yorker
  Elizabeth Taylor divorces Eddie Fisher and weds Richard Burton 10 days later
  end of "The Twilight Zone"
  Peyton Place premiers as first prime-time soap opera
  Color TV becomes popular
  Gracie Allen comedienne and wife of George Burns dies
• Finance: Silver coins phased out
• Law: 24th amendment bans poll tax
  Civil Rights Act passes Congress
  Economic Opportunity Act passes
• Medicine: American doctors repeat Schultz's 1910 experiments on self hypnosis and finds body heat could be controlled
  Chemotherapy used to treat cancer
• Military: US Army pays researchers to give mind-altering drugs to prisoners
• Science: Ranger VII launched showing close-up photographs of moon's surface
  Dow Chemical pays researchers to see how dioxin affects human skin
  Genetic explanation offered for altruism
• Sports: Cassius Clay wins world heavyweight boxing title, joins nation of Islam and changes name to Muhammad Ali

East

• General: Possible tsunami
• New York: Hepatitis given to severely retarded children
  World's Fair
  Gallery of Modern Art opens
  Race riots in Harlem
  Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (longest suspension bridge) opens in NY

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Prince William Sound quake registers between 8.6 and 9.2 killing about 125
  Tsunami
• Oregon: Tsunami from Alaska quake
• Utah: Ken Hubbs Chicago Cubs second baseman killed in Provo plane crash
• Washington: Tsunami from Alaska quake

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 2,234,916

Temples: 13

13. Oakland California

Other

• Revised Home Teaching program inaugurated
• Salt Lake Temple and Lion House declared historic places
• LDS schools open in Chile
• First meetinghouse in Asia - Tokyo
• Ward Councils established
• New York World's Fair held with Mormon Pavillion showing Man's Search for Happiness
• Johnson asks President McKay to come counsel with him in the White House
• Prophet and President Johnson have informal conversations