2

Earl Franklin Lowe 67
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 64
Harry Chester Peterson 68
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 68

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 31
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 27

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Peggy Lynette Lowe 4
Sandra LaNae Lowe 3

General

Population: 3.71 Billion

• Crime: Terrorist hijackings begin
• Entertainment: Beatles break up
  Jackson 5 tops charts
  Writers include: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Ernest Hemingway (posth), Neil Simon (Last of the Red Hot Lovers), Charles de Gaulle
  Hans Werner Henze composes
• Environment: First Earth Day celebration
  Caspian (Persian) Tiger becomes extinct
• Fashion: Halston (Roy Halston Frowick) produces
• Finance: Gold prices fall below $35 an ounce
• Religion: Pope Paul VI declares priestly celibacy to be fundamental to Catholic Church
  Roman catholic and Jewish leaders meet in Rome
• Science: First gene synthesized
• Deaths: Bertrand Russell, English novelist EM Forster, Charles de Gaulle, Jimi Hendrix, Gypsy Rose Lee, Reuben L (Rube) Goldberg, Gamal Abdel Nasser,

Africa

• General: French Spanish and Portuguese territories begin to become independent
  Severe drought on desert edges
• Biafra: Defeated by Nigeria and reabsorbed into boundaries - see 1967
  Famine follows
• Egypt: Israel and UAR agree to truce along Suez Canal
  Anwar Sadat presides to 1981
• Ethiopia: Haile Selassie makes first official visit to Italy since Italian takeover of Ethiopia in 1935
• Gambia: Proclaimed republic within British Commonwealth
• Nigeria: End of civil war - see Biafra

Americas

• General: US Supports "Dirty Wars in S America" (-1980)
• Chile: Communist Salvador Allende becomes president
  Cerro Tololo Observatory opens
• Colombia: Quake centered in Peru leaves many dead
• Guatemala: Mont El Dore archaeologists unearth five-foot Buddha-like statue from 700-300 BC
• Peru: Yungay buried by ice and mud after Chimbote earthquake - total deaths with all disasters 66,794

Asia

• Cambodia: US and South Vietnamese invade
  Start of Khmer Republic to 1975 - renamed
• China: Quake
• East Pakistan: Two cyclones hit Bhola killing 300,000 - 500,000 (Bangladesh)
• Japan: Yukio Mishima commits seppuku after failing to inspire coup
  World Expo
  Minoru Takeyama designs the Ichi-Ban-Kan building
• Malaysia: 10,000 frog orgy ends in frog war wil some tearing selves and mates apart
• Philippines: Two typhoons kill 1500
  Assassination attempt on Pope Paul VI
• South Vietnam: Paris peace talks end without progress in Vietnam

Europe

• General: Ostpolitik agreements for E and W German cooperation
  France and Britain insert nuclear-powered heart pacemakers
• Albania: Trade agreement with China
• Czechoslovakia: Dubcek becomes ambassador to Turkey but is later suspended
• Denmark: "Tollund Man" discovered
• France: President Pompidou goes to Washington
  Death of de Gaulle
  Dance hall in St. Laurent du Pont FRA kills 146
• Great Britain: Conservative party in power under Prime Minister Edward Heath ending leadership of Harold Wilson
  Dame Maggie Smith emerges as stage personality
  British stamp from 1856 sells for $280k
• Iceland: European Free Trade Association membership
• Poland: Gomulka the Polish Communist Party first secretary resigns after 14 years
• Soviet Union: Life publishes supposed reminiscences of Nikita Khrushchev
  Luna 16 returns with moon rock to Soviets – Luna 17 powers vehicle on moon
  Venera 7 lands on Venus from USSR
  death of PI Belyayev USSR astronaut
• West Germany: Friendship treaty with USSR
  death of German Chancellor Heinrich Bruning
• Yugoslavia: President Tito announces succession by collective leadership
  Death of Peter II ex-king

Middle East

• General: Arab terrorists protesting US support for Israel hijack three aircraft bound for US
• Israel: Golda Meir visits London
  Truce between Israeli and Arab governments along borders of Suez Canal
• Jordan: Civil war in Jordan between government troops and Palestinian guerillas
  PLO driven out and settle in Lebanon
  King Hussein of Jordan escapes assassination attempt in Amman
• Syria: General Asad seizes power
• Yemen: South Yemen renamed People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
  Famine

Pacific

• Fiji: Independence from Britain
• Tonga: Independence from Britain

President:

Pres: Richard Nixon

General

• Crime: Start of Weather Underground bombings
• Culture: 448 Colleges or universities on strike over war
  Voluntary prayers banned in school
• Entertainment: Boris Karloff autobiography published
  Duke Ellington gives concert of sacred music
  Musical plays "Company" and "Applause" released
  Eugene Ormandy conducts in Philadelphia
  FCC regulations require split in ownership of Film and TV
  Networks allow people of color and Flip Wilson show rates #2
  David Mancuso hosts "Love Saves the Day" (LSD) party starts modern discotheque
  Phil Donahue show goes nationwide
  Film: "True Grit" (John Wayne)
• Finance: "Nixon Shock" of the economy
  Wage and price controls make dollar to gold conversion impossible
  US gold coverage drops from 55% to 22%
  Start of US trade deficits
  World bear market reaches bottom – Dow Jones drops to 631
  Nixon lifts import quotas to get cheap oil - dollar becomes loosely pegged to oil
• Medicine: CIA starts immunosuppressive research for synthetic organism. Some believe this research led to AIDS
• Military: US troops enter Cambodia
  US troops in Vietnam reduced to 400k
• Politics: British Prime Minister Wilson and Nixon meet in DC
• Sports: Monday Night Football debuts
  James Bouton writes Ball Four about baseball
  Joe Frazier wins heavyweight boxing
• Technology: Apollo 13 event
• Weather: National Christmas Tree in Washington DC toppled by high winds

East

• Maryland: John Hopkins U checks African-American children for extra Y chromosome
• New York: Arab commandos hijack three jets bound for NY from Europe
  Barry Manilow and Bette Midler perform in bathhouses
  first New York Marathon

Midwest

• Minnesota: James Finley of St. Paul sues federal government for $500k when treatment at hospital turns him from black to white
• Ohio: Student protesters burn down ROTC building against Vietnam War resulting in soldiers firing, killing four at Kent State

South

• Texas: Four tornadoes hit Amarillo area
• Virginia: Bunnyman of Virginia reported as wielding an axe – police question him and he indeed wears the bunny suit
• West Virginia: 75 people, including Marshall University football team dies when plain crashes in rain and fog

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Kitt Peak Observatory opens
  Tropical Storm Norma causes flooding
• California: Hollywood companies taken over by conglomerates
• Colorado: Baseball-sized hailstones
• Utah: Nixon visits for Pioneer Day and Halloween

President

Pres: David O. McKay died
Pres: Joseph Fielding Smith

Membership: 2,930,810

Temples: 13

Other

• First Asian stake organized - Tokyo
• First Afircan stake organized - Transvaal South Africa
• Family Home Evening standardized on Mondays
• Tabernacle Choir performs for lighting of nation's Christmas tree
• 500th Stake created
• Six million visit Church booth at Expo '70 in Japan
• 5,000th Ward
• Computerized system for recording contributions goes into operation