2

Earl Franklin Lowe 62
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 59
Harry Chester Peterson 63
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 63

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 26
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 22

General

Population: 3.35 Billion

• Entertainment: Writers include Norman Mailer, Ian Fleming, Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed)
  Artists includes Picasso
  Goya picture stolen in 1961 returned to London
  "Op" art of illusions becomes popular
  Films include "Help!" (Beatles), "Othello" (Olivier), "Dr. Zhivago" "The Sound of Music"
  Music includes Leonard Bernstein, Beatles
  Stephen Sondheim begins working as a lyricist
• History: "Vinland Map" shows Leif Ericson discovering America (forgery proved in 1974)
• Science: First space walk from USSR
  Rare earth elements separated by gas chromatography
  End of a major bee die-off (1963)
  "Pulsating universe" theory proposed by Sandage
  Cosmic background radiation discovered by Penzias and Wilson supporting Big Bang
• Sports: Jim Clark becomes world motor-racing champion
• Travel: First flight around the world from pole to pole
• Deaths: TS Eliot, Albert Schweitzer, Adlai E Stevenson, Le Corbusier, Nat "King" Cole, Ex-King Farouk of Egypt, WInston Churchill, Helena Rubinstein, Edward R Murrow

Africa

Algeria: Revolution in Algera – President Ben Bella deposed

Bechuanaland: Serstse Khama becomes first Premier

Belgian Congo: Smallpox

Gambia: Independence in British Commonwealth

Rhodesia: Southern Rhodesia's whites declare unilateral independence (UDI) from Britain
Britain imposes oil embargo
Renamed from Southern Rhodesia (formerly Zimbabwe)

Americas

• General: Che Guevara becomes activist in the Congo and Latin America
• Canada: Skeena Mountains avalance in British Columbia
• Chile: Earthquake series kills 470

Asia

• East Pakistan: 12,000 killed in East Pakistan cyclone – another one month later killing another 12,000, and third at end of year
• India: Mine disaster kills 375
  Cyclones that hit East Pakistan also hit Bengal
• Japan: Mine disaster kills 236
• Maldives: Independence in British Commonwealth
• North Vietnam: Leader Ho Chi Minh in full power
  First US combat troops at Da Nang against Viet Kong
  MIG aircraft shoots down US jets
  Ho Chi Minh rejects peace talks with US
• Philippines: Mt. Tall erupts
• Singapore: Independence

Europe

• Cyprus: Fighting breaks out
• France: De Gaulle wins election to French presidency
  First French satellite launched
• Great Britain: Britain celebrates Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary
  Private commercial radio stations established off British coast
  Universities in Kent and Warwick ENG
  Post Office Tower in London opened
  10 British soccer players found guilty of fixing matches
  Abolition of death penalty
  Rediscovery of Mary Rose which sunk in 1535 under the gaze of Henry VIII
  End of Moors Murders by Ian Brady in Scotland
  Designer Mary Quant launches miniskirt
  Anniversaries of Magna Carta and British Parliament celebrated
  Queen Elizabeth II visits West Germany
• Netherlands: Charles Chaplin and Ingmar Bergman awarded Dutch Erasmus Prize
• Soviet Union: Podgorny replaces Mikoyan as USSR president
  First space walk Alexi Leonov
  USSR admits supplying arms to Hanoi
• West Germany: Six former Auschwitz prison officials sentenced to life imprisonment

Middle East

• General: India and Pakistan war over Kashmir – UN calls for ceasefire
  Arab Common Market forms with Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria
• Iran: Exile of Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomeini
  Shah visits Moscow

Pacific

• General: Australia-New Zealand free trade agreement
• Cook Islands: Self-governing

President:

Pres: Lindon B. Johnson

General

• Culture: Autobiography of Malcolm X published
  Students demonstrate in Washington against bombing of N Vietnam
• Entertainment: Bill Cosby becomes first African-American to headline TV show
  Batman reaches top television
  Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan Show
• Environment: Anti-pollution laws promoted
• Finance: Union wages doubled since 1949
• Law: Voting Rights act passes
  New US immigration law classifies applicants by family condition refugee status and skills – replaces law based on nationality
• Medicine: Medicare established
  Birth control becomes widely available after Griswold v. Connecticut makes "The Pill" universally legal
• Military: US escalates sending troops to Vietnam
• Politics: Department of Housing and Urban Development created
• Religion: Freedom of speech in school except religious speech upheld
  Illegal for students to pray aloud over lunch
• Science: Astronaut Ed White takes American space walk
  Gemini space vehicles first launched
• Sports: ABC pays big money to broadcast football games

East

• General: Drought
  Relay switch in Ontario causes blackout in northeast US – baby boom follows
• New York: Malcolm X assassinated - autobiography becomes bestseller
  Pope Paul VI visits

Midwest

• General: Tornadoes
• Indiana: Tornadoes hit Indianapolis

South

• Alabama: Department of Defense contaminates part of AL with nerve agent to see if hunters would be contaminated
  Outbreaks of violence at Selma AL – Martin Luther King leads 4000 demonstrators from Selma to Montgomery – KKK shootings in Selma
  Mibile gets 16.885 inches of rain overnight
• Florids: Hurricane Betsy

West and Pacific

• Alaska: 8.7 Quake
• California: Watts race riots in LA leave 35 dead and 4000 arrested
• Colorado: Floods kill 23
• Hawaii: Oahu sprayed with Bacillus globigii

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 2,395,932

Temples: 13

Other

• Family Home Evening program started with manuals published - no set day
• First missionary work in Italy since 1862 - Government permission
• Three generation family group sheets encouraged
• Missionary quota of two per ward set due to Vietnam war
• First presidency extended to five members
• Tabernacle Choir sings for Johnson inauguration
• Mormon senators and Elder Packer discuss Church's Chaplain problem with President Johnson