2

Earl Franklin Lowe 70
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 67
Harry Chester Peterson 71
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 71

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 34
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 30

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 7
Sandra LaNae Lowe 6
Debra Eileen Lowe born

General

Population: 3.94 Billion

• Entertainment: Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"
  Kurt Vonnegut writes
  Musical artists include Marvin gaye (Let's Get It On) and Pink Floyd
• Politics: Kurtz and Wilson publish Humanist Manifesto II,
• Religion: Pope Paul VI names 30 new cardinals
• Science: Grants begin long-term study of finches on Galapagos detailing evolution
  Crick and Orgel suggest somewhat jokingly that aliens may have seeded early earth with DNA
  Red-Queen Hypothesis suggested by Van Valen between predator and prey
  Comet Kohoutek proves disappointment as it fails to form tail
• Deaths: Pablo Picasso, David Ben Gurion, Noel Coward, Lon Chaney Jr., Lindon B Johnson, Pearl Buck, Arna Bontemps (of Harlem Renaissance), Pablo Neruda, JRR Tolkien, Chic Young ("Blondie" comics), Betty Grable, John Ford, Walter E Rollins (USA Frosty the Snowman), Gene Krupa (jazz drummer), Beverly Hillbillies star Irene Ryan, US businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather Post, WWI flying ace Edward "Capt. Eddie" Rickenbacker

Africa

• General: Drought and starvation

Americas

• General: CARIFTA members form Caribbean Community via Georgetown Accord
• Argentina: Former president Juan Peron and new wife Maria Estela Martinez elected president and vice president
• Bahamas: Independence within British Commonwealth
• Chile: Marxist president Allende ousted in US backed coup then commits suicide, and dictator Pinochet rules
• Honduras: Mudslides follow hurricane Fifi killing 2800
• Mexico: Earthquake

Asia

• Cambodia: US COngress ends bombings
• China: 10th Communist Congress of China meets in Peking
• India: Drought and starvation
  Release of 90k Pakistani prisoners
• Japan: Car manufacturers take lead over US
  OPEC embargo begins to result in fuel problems
• North Vietnam: Le Duc Tho refuses Nobel Peace Prize
• South Vietnam: Most fighting in Vietnam War ends with ceasefire - US troops withdraw after peace declaration at Paris
• Thailand: Anti-government demonstrations

Europe

• General: Concorde company begins service
  Both Germanys establish diplomatic relations
• Cyprus: Three Cypriot bishops attempt to unfrock Archbishop Makarios after he refuses to resign as President
• Denmark: Denmark joins European Community leaving European Free Trade Association
• France: President Georges Pompodou's Gaullist alliance wins reelection
• Great Britain: British join European Community
  Violence in N Ireland as 250 die
  Government orders three-day work week to conserve electricity
  Mentalist Yuri Geller appears on television and many watchers and listeners of the BBC report bent or broken objects in their own homes
  Anthony Hopkins stars in "The Girl from Petrovka" and meets author who had no copy of the book – his was lost two years earlier – Hopkins returns book to owner – exact copy (see 1971)
• Greece: King (and Danish prince) Constantine II expelled – Premier George Papadopolous announces abolition of Greek monarchy then is ousted in bloodless coup – General Phaedon Gizikis becomes president
• Iceland: Heimaey splits open and erupts
• Ireland: Ireland joins EC
• Netherlands: OPEC cuts oil supplies
• Soviet Union: Communist Party leader Brezhnev visits US and Brezhnev and Nixon sign treaty to limit nuclear war
  Government agrees to abide by terms of Universal Copyright Convention
• Spain: Premier Luis Carrero Blanco assassinated
• Sweden: Gustavus VI dies and crown prince Carl Gustav crowned King Carl XVI

Middle East

• General: OPEC announces oil embargo resulting in oil shortages
• Egypt: Sadat launches fourth war against Israel
• Iran: Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi nationalizes foreign-operated oil firms
• Israel: Arab states fail to conquer in Yom Kippur War
• Syria: Attempted invasion of Israeli territory

Pacific

• Australia: Sydney Opera House opens

President:

Pres: Richard Nixon

General

• Crime: Death of American underworld figure Frank Costello
• Culture: LA, Atlanta and Detroit create Martin Luther King Day
• Energy: Oil shortages – gas goes from $0.38 to over $1
  speed limits created nationwide (costing money in signs)
  shortages and panics (including Johnny Carson's accidental toilet paper shortage) ensue
• Entertainment: PBS airs reality series An American Family about a dysfunctional group
  The Godfather wins best picture
  Liza Minnelli wins for Cabaret
• Environment: Nixon signs Endangered Species Act
• Finance: President Nixon ends wage-price controls except in food healthcare and building industries
  US devalues dollar
• Law: in Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court rules that states may not prohibit abortions in first two trimesters
• Medicine: IRS recognizes acupuncture as medical treatment
• Military: Last US combat troops out of Vietnam
  CIS has MK-ULTRA files destroyed discussing LSD experiments on CIA members
• Politics: Senate begins public hearings on Watergate
  Vice-President Agnew resigns due to income tax evasionand Ford is appointed
  Kissinger receives Nobel Peace Prize
  "Pentagon Papers" defendants Ellsberg and Russo freed
• Science: American Skylab I-III missions completed and astronauts spend a month in space – Skylab IV sets out for record flight
  US space probe Pioneer 10 transmits telebision pictures from within 81,000 miles of Jupiter
  First US manned object workshop
• Sports: George Foreman scores a tko as he defeats Joe Frasier
  "Secretariat" wins Triple Crown
  OJ Simpson sets rushing record

East

• New York: Crirminal Court judge rules motion picture "Deep Throat" as "indisputably and irredeemably obscene"
  Irene revival
  NY Governor Nelson A Rockefeller resigns to head Commission on Critical Choices

Midwest

• General: Major flooding of Mississippi River - largest since 1927
• Illinois: Sears Tower dwarfs World Trade Center as tallest tower
• South Dakota: Militant American Indians occupy Wounded Knee for 70 days

South

• Alabama: Advisory Panel reporting on Tuskegee study writes that "Society can no longer afford to leave the balancing of individual rights against scientific progress to the scientific community"

West and Pacific

• California: End of killing streak of Ed Kemper – started killing his grandparents just to see what it was like – about 10 die

President

Pres: Harold B. Lee died
Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 3,306,658

Temples: 15

Other

• New set of Missionary lesons
• First stake in mainland Asia - Seoul
• First agricultural missionaries
• Elder Packard attends presidential inauguration after President Lee was unable to attend
• Single adult branch started
• Welfare services starts
• Marriott Activities Center dedicated - largest at the time