2

Earl Franklin Lowe 63
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 60
Harry Chester Peterson 64
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 64

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 27
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 23

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe born

General

Population: 3.42 Billion

• Entertainment: Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film
  Music includes Mitch Leigh (Man of La Mancha), Samuel Barber (Antony and Cleopatra), Burton Lane (On A Clear Day You Can See Forever)
  Writers include Truman Capote, Peter Ustinov, Edward Albee, Robert Blake, Mao Tse-tung, James Cameron
• Fashion: Mini skirts come into fashion
• Medicine: Michael E DeBakey implants plastic arteries onto artificial heart for temporary replacement
• Politics: International Days of Protest (against US in Vietnam)
• Religion: Salvation Army centenary
• Science: Luna 9 spacecraft lands on moon, US spacecraft Surveyor I also lands
  Two male dogs orbit in Soviet satellite
  Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann awarded Fermi Prize
  Whittington reexamines Burgess Shale and determines fossils not direct ancestral but extinct
  Field of cladistics started by Hennig
  Cleve Backster attaches lie detector to philodendron and notes responses
• Sports: Mile record at 3 min 51.3 seconds
• Technology: Color TV becomes popular
  First fax machine sold
• Deaths: Walt Disney, CS Forester (ENG), Sophie Tucker "Last of the Red-Hot Mamas", Elizabeth Arden, Margaret Sanger birth control advocate, Worth Bingham dies when surfboard atop his convertible swings around and breaks his neck, Skydiver Nick Piantanida dies of uncontrolled decombression when trying to make world's highest parachute jump and his face mask comes loose

Africa

Botswana: Independence in Commonwealth - renamed from Bechuanaland

Egypt: Temples and statuary of Abu Simbel Egypt moved to save them from the Aswan High Dam

Ghana: Nkrumah government removed by military coup – Nkrumah goes into exile

Lesotho: Independence in Commonwealth - renamed from Basutoland

Malawi: H Kamzu Banda president

Rhodesia: Prime Minister Ian Smith rejects British proposals for settlements
UN calls for sanctions on Rhodesia – South Africa and Portugal refuse

South Africa: Prime Minister Dr. Verwoerd assassinated – John Vorster presides

Americas

• General: Caribbean earthquake kills 3600
• Barbados: Independence in Commonwealth
• BrazilL Landslide
• Guyana: Independence in Commonwealth as British Guiana becomes Guyana
  Venezuela disputes borders
• Haiti: Hurricane

Asia

• General: War between Indonesia and Malaysia ends
  Supermarket retailing expands
• China: Mao Zedong leads Cultural Revolution (to 1976) and destruction of religious and old cultural items
  Red guards formed - demonstrates in China against Western influences
• India: Indira Gandhi the daughter of Nehru becomes Prime Minister
• Indonesia: Eruption of Mt. Awa
• Java: Eruption of Kelut
• North Vietnam: Hanoi and Haicheng bombed by US
  US orders bomb-free zone around Hanoi
  Australian British and US troops fight
  48-hour Christmas truce
• Sumatra: Smallpox outbreak

Europe

• General: Supermarket retailing expands
  Economic and technical pact signed by Italy and USSR
  Storm kills 230 in Aegean sea
• Austria: Archduke Otto von Habsburg obtains Austrian passport after 47-year exile
• Belgium: World Jewish Congress in Brussels attempts to promote Jewish-Christian understanding
• France: Withdrawal from NATO
  De Gaulle inaugurated for second term – visits USSR and requests removal of NATO forces from France
• Great Britain: "The Times" of London changes formatting to move ads
  British Prime Minister Wilson announces standstill in wages and prices
  Wales – Slag heap kills 145 including 116 children
  Cambridge Medieval History writes "The Byzantium Age"
  Billy Graham conducts Greater London Crusade
  Archbishop of Canterbury visits Pope Paul VI
  First woman Scottish National Party representative
  First Welsh National Party candidate wins seat at Westminster
• Italy: Floods ravage northern Italy – thousands of art treasures ruined in Venice and Florence
• Monaco: Prince Rainier and Aristotle Onassis feud over control of Societe des Bains de Mer in Monte Carlo
• Netherlands: Princess Beatrix (Dutch) marries German diplomat
• Portugal: Salazar Suspension Bridge opens in Lisbon
• Romania: Chou En-lai visits Romania
• Soviet Union: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson visits Moscow
  Meeting between Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko
• Spain: Fourth World Congress of Psychiatry in Madrid
  2000 Madrid students battle with police
  US B-52 cracshed near Spain with four unarmed hydrogen bombs – one falls in sea and is recovered after three months
• Sweden: 40th World Music Festival held in Stockholm
  Swedish newspaper "Stockholm Tidende" ceases publication
• Vatican City: Pope Paul VI issues encyclical on Vietnamese war
• West Germany: Autobahn system reaches 2000 miles
  German team makes first ascent of N face of the Eiger
  Nazi ministers Albert Speer and Baldur von Schirach released
  Kurt Georg Kiesinger elected chancellor

Middle East

• General: Israeli and Jordanian forces fight in Hebron area
• Iraq: Abdul Rachman Arif elected president
• Lebanon: Intra Bank fails
• Pakistan: Smallpox
  President Ayub Khan visits London
• Turkey: Barrack fire kills 68
  Quake

Pacific

• Australia: Jack Brabham wins workd driving championship in car of his own construction

President:

Pres: Lindon B. Johnson

General

• Culture: National Organization of Women formed
  Anti-war and race riots
  Black Panther Party founded by Stokely Charmichael
  Kwanzaa invented
• Entertainment: "Star Trek" debuts as sci-fi drama plus first first televised inter-racial kiss
  "Psycho" deemed too violent to show on television
  Bye Bye Birdie and Cabaret debut on Broadway
  Musicians vary from Frank Sinatra to the Monkees and songs like Born Free and Eleanor Rigby
  The Munsters cancelled
• Military: CIA continues human behavior drug tests
• Politics: White house marriage of Luci Johnson
  President Johnson goes on Far East tour
• Religion: United Brethren and Methodist Churches vote to merge as United Methodist Church
  Roman Catholic bishops rule that US Catholics need no longer abstain from eating meat on Fridays (except Lent)
• Science: Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spacewalks
• Sports: Billy Casper wins playoff against Arnold Palmer in golf
  AFL and NFL merge – first SuperBowl next year
• Transportation: Department of Transportation created

East

• New York: New Metropolitain Opera House in NYC
  New York "Herald Tribune" ends
  US Army drops Bacillus subtilis through New York subway ventilation to test for terrorism threat

Midwest

• General: Great Blizzard of 1966 hits Great Plains

South

• Florida: Tornadoes
• Texas: World's worst driver = 10 summons and six accidents within 20 minutes

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Mount Steele glacier moves at two feet an hour
• California: Scientists conclude that only humans and pigs get sunburned among mammals
  Earthquakes

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 2,480,899

Temples: 13

Other

• First Stake in South America organized - Sao Paulo
• New Visitor's Center opened on Temple Square
• Temple Annex in SLC completed
• Home Study Seminary started
• LDSSA formed