2

Earl Franklin Lowe 66
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 63
Harry Chester Peterson 67
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 67

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 30
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 26

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Peggy Lynette Lowe 3
Sandra LaNae Lowe 2

General

Population: 3.64 Billion

• Entertainment: Writers include Mario Puzo (The Godfather), Michael Crichton (Andromeda Strain), Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five), Vladimir Nabokov, Norman Mailer
  Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" enters 18th year
  Sir Allen Lane retires from Penguin books after 50 years of publishing
  Anniversaries of death of Rembrandt and founding of Royal Academy in London
  Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writer's Union
• Finance: Worldwide inflation
• Religion: Pope Paul VI names 33 new cardinals and eliminates 200 saints from liturgical calendar
• Science: Men walk on the Moon
  Death of Philip Blaiberg who lived with transplanted heart 9 months
  New swallow species discovered in Thailand (white-eyed river martin)
  Five kingdoms of life proposed
• Sports: Larry Lewis age 101 runs 100 yard dash in 17.8 seconds
• Deaths: Cosmetic guru Helena Rubinstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Boris Karloff, Boxer Rocky Marciano, Judy Garland, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Patrick Kennedy (father of brothers), Lilian Gish

Africa

• Biafra: See Nigeria
• Mali: Famine after five years
• Nigeria: Red Cross leads international mission to relieve famine caused by war
• Tunisia: Major storm hits country
• Uganda: Pope Paul VI meets with Nigerian and Biafran representatives

Americas

• Anguilla: Caribbean island of Anguilla severs ties with Britain
• Honduras: Air force destroys Acajulta oil refinery in "football war" with El Salvador

Asia

• General: China confronts Soviet Union in far east Asia
• Hong Kong: Flu outbreak
• Japan: US and Japan agree on the return to Japan of Ryukyu Islands
• North Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh dies and is succeeded by Le Duan
• South Vietnam: Start of troop withdrawal
  Nixon meets S Vietnamese President Thieu on Midway Island

Europe

• General: Soviet spies Helen and Peter Kroger ezchanged for British lecturer Gerald Brooke
• Austria: Suffragan Bishop Matthias Sefregger of Munich identified as subject of Nazi war crimes investigation
• Czechoslovakia: USSR sets up new government more loyal to Soviets
  Alexander Dubcek sacked as Czech Communist Party First Secretary
  Jan Palach a Czech student publicly burns himself to death in Prauge protesting Soviet occupation
• Denmark: Lillebaelt suspension bridge built
• France: President Charles de Gaulle resigns and Georges Pompidou becomes president to 1974
  Concorde makes first flight
• Great Britain: Charles crowned Prince of Wales
  Increased tension in Northern Ireland as IRA campaigns for united Ireland - Fighting between Catholics and Protestants - Britain sends 600 troops
  London School of Economics and Political Science closes for weeks due to student disorders
  1792 vintage wine auctioned at Christie's of London
  Bandits hijack trunk in London and escape with bullion worth 75k pounds
  Prince Philip maintains that Britain's royal family will have to ask Parliament to increase queen's allowance
  Bible John killings in Scotland
  James Chichester Clark succeeds Terence O'Neill as Prime Minister of N Ireland
  British Conservative MP Enoch Powell proposes repatriation of Black and Asian residents
• Italy: 39 nations meet to survey pollution of the seas
• West Germany: Gustav Heinemann elected President and Willy Brandt elected W German Chancellor
• Yugoslavia: Quake in Bosnia/Herzegovina

Middle East

• General: Yassir Arafat becomes PLO Chairman
• Israel: Arab terrorist bomb explodes in Jerusalem
  Death of Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol as Golda Meir becomes Israel's fourth Prime Minister
  Golda Meir and Nixon meet in Washington DC
• Jordan: PLO headquarters move to Jordan
• Pakistan: President Ayub Khan resigns and is succeeded by Aga Muhammed Yahya Khan

Pacific

President:

Pres: Lindon B. Johnson
Pres: Richard Nixon inaugurated

General

• Crime: James Earl Ray convicted of killing Dr. Martin Luther King
  Sirhan Sirhan tried and convicted of death of Robert Kennedy
  death of American labor leader John L Lewis
  Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns after questionable financial dealings
  Weather Underground splits from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) also is infiltrated by FBI
• Culture: Widespread protests against Vietnam war
  Trouser outfits considered acceptable for women
• Entertainment: Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", Maya Angelou published
  "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "MASH" (Altman) released
  "1776" musical opens
  Sesame Street debuts, and Laugh-In hottest show on television
  Smothers Brothers on TV cancelled for controversial statements
  Duke Ellington celebrates 70th birthday – awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Nixon
• Environment: US governments takes steps to ban DDT
• Fashion: Bell-bottomed Levis first sold
• Food: US government limits cyclamates in food and limits MSG use
• Law: Nixon appoints Warren Burger as Chief Justice
  War memorial crosses declared illegal
• Military: US military tests biological agents on live caged animals in the Pacific
  US military conducts open-air sarin gas tests
  Nixon terminates US biological warfare program
  US Dept. of Defense request money for a synthetic biological agent
  First US troops withdrawn from Vietnam
  US Army Staff Sgt. Daviot Mitchell and Lt. William Calley ordered to stand trial on murder charges for massacre of civilians at Mylai Vietnam
• News: "Saturday Evening Post" suspends publication
• Politics: Nixon makes eight-day tour of Europe
• Religion: religion shows decline in US polls
• Science: Moon landing - Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin first on
  First gene cloned
  Apollo 10 astronauts come within 9.4 miles of the moon
  Two mariner space probes brings pictures of Mars
  US astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan L Bean land on the moon and take samples in Apollo 12
• Sports: Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain leads rebounds for NBA for fourth year in a row and 8/10 past years
• Technology: Ted Hoff develops microprocessor
• Transportation: GM recalls five million cars for defects

East

• Maryland: J Weber observes gravitational waves postulated by Einstein
• Massachusetts: Senator Edward Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne plunge in car to pond at Chappaquiddick – she dies
  Boston's new city hall designed
• New York: Woodstock concert draws 300 - 500k
  Police raid Stonewall Inn dance club sparking riots by gay organization
  Katherine Hepburn stars in "Coco" on Broadway
  New York sex revue "Oh Calcutta!"
• Rhode Island: Newport Bridge built
• Washington D.C.: Over 250,000 attend anti-war rally

Midwest

• Illinois: "Chicago Eight" indicted for riots during '68 Democratic convention – found not guilty after boisterous trial

South

• General: Hurricane Camille hits Gulf Coast
• Georgia: Experimental drugs tested on mentally disabled children

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Oil fields lease sells for over 900 million in one day
• California: Rains cause slides that damage 10,000 homes killing 100
  Quake
  Gap stores open in San Francisco
  End of Zodiac Killer murders in North
  Bodies of actress Sharon tate (wife of Roman Polanski) and four others found in LA home – Charles Manson and commune indicted
• Oregon: Jery Brudos kills at least four women then stealing off with their shoes and body parts for personal pleasure – dressed as woman

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 2,807,456

Temples: 13

Other

• Two-month language training missions begin
• Eisenhower dies – Church holds memorial service
• J. Willard Marriott made chair of Nixon's inaugural, and Tabernacle Choir participates
• Governor Romney appointed to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• David M. Kennedy serves as secretary of Treasury and later as Ambassador at Large
• Terrel H. Bell serves as deputy commissioner of education
• Jon M. Huntsman serves as special assistant and staff secretary to president Nixon
• Charles J. Carter – Baptist minister from Florida joins LDS Church – cousin to Jimmy
• Unified Social Services (LDS) department formed
• Genealogical records for individuals (not families) ok'd
• Southeast Asia Mission formally opened centered out of Singapore