2

Earl Franklin Lowe 69
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 66
Harry Chester Peterson 70
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 70

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 33
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 29

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 6
Sandra LaNae Lowe 5

General

Population: 3.87 Billion

• Entertainment: Sylvia Plath poetry published posthumously
  Musicals Jesus Christ, Superstar and Grease played<
  Shostakovich and Leonard Bernstein compose
  Clifford Irving concocts Howard Hughes "biography"
• Military: 100+ nations sign weapons treaty
• Religion: Dimitrios I elected Patriarch of the Faith of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Science: First black hole discovered 6000 light years from earth
  Gould and Eldredge publish on punctuated equilibrium
  Bakker publishes suggesting endothermic dinosaurs
• Deaths: Harry S. Truman, Ezra Pound, French star Maurice Chevalier, Edward VIII of England, J Edgar Hoover, Athenagoras I (Eastern Orthodox Patriarch), Max Fleischer creator of "Popeye", William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy), Louis SB Leakey English anthropologist, Charles Atlas the bodybuilding promoter, baseball player Jackie Robinson, restaurateur Howard Johnson

Africa

• General: Major drought in Sahel for 13 years
• Ghana: Death of independence leader Kwame Nkrumah
• Kenya: Richard Leakey and Glynn Isaac discover 2.5 million-year-old human skull
• Sierra Leone: Star of Sierra Leone the largest diamond ever discovered is unearthed

Americas

• Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau's Liberal Party fails to win majority in House of Commons
  Parliament establishes limited control over foreign investments
• Chile: Marxist president Salvador Allende Gossens nationalizes large industry
• Mexico: Storms
• Nicaragua: Managua Quake kills 10k to 20,000

Asia

• Bangladesh: Independence within Commonwealth
  Rare tornado leaves 25,000 homeless
  Formerly East Pakistan, Bangladesh established as sovereign state with Sheik Mujibur Rahman prime Minister
• Cambodia: Lon Nol takec control of Cambodian government
• China: Nixon visits
• India: Drought
  Monsoon destroys sugar cane
  Poisoning at wedding feast when wood alcohol and varnish taint drinks – 100 die
  Chandka Forest elephant stampede kills 24
  Flooding in Punjab
• Japan: 11th Winter Olympics held
  Kakuei Tanaka elected Premier
  US returns Okinawa
• North Vietnam: "Hanoi" Jane Fonda visits army
• Philippines: Stone Age tribe the Tasadays discovered living in caves in the south
  President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law due to "Communist rebellion" – Marcos becomes near dictator
• South Korea: Flooding
• South Vietnam: North Vietnamese troops cross demilitarized zone
  Largest force of bombers takes place in Operation Linebacker II
  Peace talks continue – US mines N Vietnamese ports and Kissinger makes "peace is at hand" speech
• Sri Lanka: Ceylon changes name as it becomes independent

Europe

• Austria: Eleven Israeli athletes and five assistants killed at Munich Olympics
  Mark Spitz wins record seven gold medals
• Belgium: Premier and founder of Common Market Paul Henri Spaak dies
• Denmark: King Frederick IX dies
  Decision to join European Community
• Great Britain: Bloody Sunday in North Ireland with 13 Catholics killed by British troops - Britain imposes direct rule
  Decision to join European Community
  Death of Duke of Windsor the former King Edward VIII age 36
  Guitarist Leslie Harvey electrocuted on stage by microphone in Scotland
  47 day strike cripples Britain
  Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary written
• Ireland: Decision to join European Community
• Italy: Michaelangelo's "Pieta" seriously damaged by hammer-wielding fanatic
• Norway: Decision to rejecy membership in European Community
• Soviet Union: Arms Limitation Treaty between US and Soviets
  Nixon visits
  Soviet Venus 9 lands on Venus
• Yugoslavia: Smallpox outbreak

Middle East

• Iran: Blizzard kills 4000
  Quake
• Iraq: Mercury poisoning continues with tainted wheat
• Israel: Arab-Israeli violence continues
  PLO stages terrorist attacks

Pacific

• Australia: Labour party victory ends 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule
• New Zealand: Labour Party victory ends 12 years of rule of National Party

President:

Pres: Richard Nixon reelected over McGovern

General

• Business: Nike Shoes begin production
• Crime: "ITT-Dita Beard memo" shows Dept. of Justice settled antitrust suit in exchange for campaign contribution
  Supreme Court ruling prohibits capital punishment – sends more power to states
  Weather Underground bombings continue
  Militant Angela Davis acquitted of murder-conspiracy charges
• Culture: Congress passes Equal Rights Amendment - fails to be ratified
  American porn film Deep Throat released receiving only R rating (highest) and seen widely grossing millions of dollars
  Sexual experimentation becomes widespread and fairly public
  50 million smiley face buttons sell
• Energy: Start of US petroleum shortage
• Entertainment: Grease debuts as musical while Fiddler on the Roof closes on Broadway
  HBO launched as first paid cable network
  "Life" magazine ceases publication
  M*A*S*H premiers
• Environment: DDT banned in start of environmental movement
• Finance: Dow-Jones index closes above 1000 for first time
• Military: Strict antihijacking measures in US
  Military draft phased out and forces become all-volunteer
• Medicine: NIMH proposes violence on television leads to aggression in children
• Politics: Nixon travels to China
  Watergate break-in
• Science: Pioneer 10 launched
  Apollo 16 and 17 reach moon
  Richard Nixon sponsors space shuttle creation
• Sports: US Bobby Fischer becomes first American world chess champion
• Technology: First video game Pong introduced by Atari inventor
• Travel: Carnival cruise line sets sail

East

• Deleware: Hurricane Agnes hits Wilmington causing 1.7 billion in damages
• Pennsylvania: Hurricane Agnes

Midwest

• Illinois: Possible experimentation on toddlers at Chicago U's Argonne Laboratory – fed plutonium
• Missouri: LSD given to mental patients
  83 degrees redorded in February
• Ohio: Cincinnati radiation experiment ends
• South Dakota: Flash floods in Rapid City

South

• Alabama: End of Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male
  Governor George C Wallace shot by Arthur Bremer and partially paralyzed
• Mississippi: Police stop swerving car and find driver was blind – and passenger drunk
• West Virginia: Heavy rain over heavy snow creates a wall of water that destroys town

West and Pacific

• California: Tropical Depression Hyacinth hits Los Angeles County
  Mullin kills 13
  WattsStax festival in Los Angeles brings in 100k people
• Utah: Richard McCoy lives in Provo – suspected of being "D.B. Cooper"
  Nixon wins in every county in Utah

President

Pres: Joseph Fielding Smith died
Pres: Harold B. Lee

Membership: 3,218,908

Temples: 15

14. Ogden UT
15. Provo UT

Other

• Church-wide sports tournaments and dance festivals disbanded
• Church offices move to current Church Office Building
• Scriptures become standard text of Sunday School
• International Mission organized
• Elder Kimball undergoes surgery by Dr. Russell M Nelson
• Church Historical Department created from Historian's Office
• MIA realigned into Priesthood under Bishop or Branch President