2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 69
Harry Chester Peterson 73
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 73

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 36
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 32

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Peggy Lynette Lowe 9
Sandra LaNae Lowe 8
Debra Eileen Lowe 2
Michelle Ann Lowe born

General

Population: 4.09 Billion

• Business: Microsoft founded
• Culture: International Women's Year world conference
• Entertainment: "Sex Pistols" band created, furthering punk rock
  Musicals include Chicago, The Wiz, A Chorus Line
  Writings: John Updike, Richard Adams (Watership Down), Peter Shaffer (Equus), Sylvia Plath letters, Agatha Christie
  Film Jaws debuts
  German writer Thomas Mann's notebooks opened 20 years after his death
• Medicine: Acupuncture shown to be result of either general or placebo effect
• Religion: Five saints canonized
• Science: Americans and Soviets in joint space venture - US Apollo and Soviet Soyuz 19 link
  Voyager lands on Mars
  US Viking ship seeks for life on Mars
  King and Wilson show DNA differs from Chimp by one percent
• Sports: Bobby Fischer gives up world chess championship due to terms of match
• Technology: Completely disposable razor invented
• War: Terrorism and kidnappings worldwide
• Deaths: Charles H Revson (Revlon), English comic writer PG Wodehouse, Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aristotle S Onassis, Physicist Fustav Hertz, Physicist George P Thompson, Physicist (U-235) John R Dunning, Rod Serling, Josephine Baker, PG Wodehouse, Thornton Wilder, Elijah Muhammad (formerly Poole – leader of Black Muslims)

Africa

• Angola: Civil War after independence - was Portuguese West Africa and name changes
• Benin: Former kingdom of Dahomey changes name
• Cape Verde: Independent from Portugal
• Comoros: Declare independence from France
• Egypt: Suez Canal reopens
• Ethiopia: Revolutionary regime to 1991
  Death of Emperor Haile Selassie
  Fierce fighting erupts between Ethiopians government and secessionist guerrillas in Eritrea
• Guinea-Bissau: Was renamed from Portuguese Guinea
• Kenya: Fifth assembly of World Council of Churches in Nairobi calls for a transformation of civilization
• Mozambique: Independence and is renamed from Portuguese East Africa
• Nigeria: Becomes leading oil producer in Africa
• Sao Tome and Principe: Independemce from Portugal
• Somalia: Kidnappings
• Tanzania: Kidnappings

Americas

• Argentina: Kidnappings by leftist, radicals, and terrorists
• Canada: Worlds largest airport opens in Montreal
  Anglican Church ordains women
• Honduras: Drought
• Peru: President Juan Valasco Alvarado ousted in military coup and replaced by Premier General Francisco morales Bermudez
• Suriname: Independence from Netherlands and renamed from Dutch Guiana

Asia

• General: Start of Cambodian-Vietnamese War to 1989
• Burma: Earthquake destroys Great Temples of Pagan
• Cambodia: Pol Pot of Khmer Rouge takes control to 1979, killing 3 million
  Renamed Kampuchea
  Regime names the year zero
  Cambodian President Lon Nol flees Phnom Penh before Communist takeover
  Cambodian naval ship seizes US merchant ship which is retrieved by US forces
• China: Death of Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek)
  Earthquake in Liaoning predicted by strange animal behaviors but 10k die
  Banqiao Dam rupture kills 231000
  Super Typhoon Nina causes flooding leading to disease
  Six thousand life-sized pottery figures from 3rd century BC found in NW China
• East Timor: Portuguese Timor renamed - will later become part of Indonesia
• India: Sikkim becomes part of India abolishing monarchy
  Cholera outbreak
• Japan: Betamax invented in Japan
  Junko Tabei becomes first woman to climb Everest
  death of former Premier of Japan Eisaku Sato
  Bando Mitsugoro VIII a Japanese kabuki actor dies of fugu poisoning after eating four livers
• Laos: Pathet Lao Communist troops form government
  King Savang Batthana abdicates and a people's democratic republic established
• North Vietnam: China starts to dominate
  End of Vietnam war
• Northern Mariana Islands: vote to become US citizens and to become commonwealth (territory since 1925)
• Papua New Guinea: Independence from Australia
  Influenza outbreak
• South Vietnam: North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon creating single state
  Nguyen Van Thieu resigns as President of S Vietnam
  American Air Force cargo jet crashes killing over 100 Vietnamese orphans aboard
• Taiwan: Jiang Ching-kuo plans for rapid growth
  Chaing Kai-shek of China dies
  US withdraws

Europe

• General: Concorde flights originate
• Czechoslovakia: Death of Czech Communist Antonin Novotny
• Finland: Helsinki agreement fixes Germany's borders and human rights in East Europe - signed by 35 nations
• Great Britain: First sighting of Morgawr the monster off Cornwall
  Inflation rises dramatically
  Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of British Conservative Party succeeding Edward Heath
  London subway crash kills 41
  Charlie Chaplin and PG Wodehouse knighted by Queen Elizabeth
  Donald Nielson of Britains Post Office Robberies (and killings) arrested
• Greece: Cabinet commutes death sentence of former President George Papadopoulos to life
• Ireland: Death of Eamon De Valera
• Italy: Kidnappings by terrorists
  Communists and Socialists register large gains in elections
• Portugal: Constitution gives power to armed forces
  Riots and unrest
  Independence to colonies
• Soviet Union: Death of former USSR Premier Nikolai Bulganin
  First regular supersonic plane is USSR Tupolev-144
  Nobel Peace Prize by Sakharov the Russian physicist who developed USSR H Bomb
• Spain: Generalissimo Francisco Franco dies and Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon sworn in as King Juan Carlos I
• West Germany: Kidnappings by leftists and terrorists
  Fritz Honka - serial killer of toothless prostitutes caught after he torched his apartment and the corpses found,

Middle East

• General: Islamic nations vote to kick Israel out of UN
  Oil prices raised 10% by OPEC
• Lebanon: Fighting between Christians and Moslems in Beirut – fighting forced to halt
• Saudi Arabia: King Faisal assassinated bu nephew who is beheaded – new king Khalid brother of Faisal
• Turkey: US government cuts off aid to Turkey
  Turkish Cypriotes set up separate state in Cyprus – denounced by President Makarios of Cyprus

Pacific

• Australia: Terrible fire season
  Political crisis as appointed governor-general deposes elected body
  Asian immigration to Australia increases sharply
  Malcolm Fraser becomes Prime Minister

President:

Pres: Gerald Ford

General

• Business: Microsoft founded
  FootLocker opens
  Pet rocks hit market selling for $3.95 (equivalent of $15 in 2010)
  WT Grant stores fail and file bankruptcy
• Crime: Dr. Kenneth C Edelin found guilty of manslaughter in death of male fetus in "legal" abortion
  Weather Underground bombing
  Patty hearst captured (see 1974)
  James "Jimmy" Hoffa former Teamsters president disappears
  John N Mitchell Erlichman and Haldeman of Nixon Administration convicted and sentenced for Watergate – Mardian also convicted - Dean Kalmbach and Magruder released with Colson and McCord - Hunt and Liddy continue without shortened sentences
• Culture: Homosexuality removed from APA list of psychological disorders
• Entertainment: Three major networks agree to family hour without violence and sex
  Saturday Night Live premiers
• Finance: Dollar unpegs from gold and silver standard and begins to float
  3 cent stamp price increase shows level of inflation
  Unemployment rate in US reaches 9.2% - highest since 1941
• Military: Congress rejects Ford's request for more aid to South Vietnam
  US Congress rejects Ford's request for more aid to S Vietnam
• Politics: Daniel P Moynihan named US Ambassador to UN
  Maurice H Stans pleads guilty to violating campaign laws
• Religion: First American-born saint canonized Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
  Four US women ordained to Episcopal priesthood – former 11 women declared invalid
  Death of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad
• Science: Linus Pauling receives US medal of Honor
  Apollo and Soyuz flights on joint venture
  Animal encephalitis outbreak in US
• Sports: Wepner lasts 15 rounds against Muhammed Ali inspiring Rocky to be written by Sylvester Stallone
  Billie Jean King and Chris Evert win tennis titles
• Technology: Home computers marketed

East

• Connecticut: After 100 years Atlantic salmon return to CT River (restocked in 1973) and sturgeon to Hudson River
• Massachusetts: Harvard establishes WEB DuBois Institute
• New York: First Women's Bank in NYC
  Eastern Airlines jet crashes killing 113
  NYC appeals to Federal Government for cash to avoid default
  Doctors strike in NY as malpractice rates quadruple
  Sarah Caldwell becomes first woman conductor of Metropolitan Opera
  Musicians' strike on Broadway for 25 days
  NYC Council of Churches rejects membership application of Unification Church of Rev. Sun Yung Moon,

Midwest

• General: Blizzard
  The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Great Lakes drowning 29
• Illinois: Death of Chicago Mafia leader Sam Giancana
  Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago wins sixth term
• Ohio: Kent State officials and military exonerated of responsibility

South

• Oklahoma: Nighttime tornadoes and snow

West and Pacific

• California: Quake measures 5.8
  Two assassination attempts made on life of President Ford in state
• Hawaii: Quake measures 7.2
  Mauna Loa erupts for first time since 1950
• Utah: Reagan visits Utah on political visit
• Washington: "Tony" Boyle head of United Mine Workers sentenced to jail for murder of union official Joseph A Yablonski
• Wyoming: Yellowstone quake measures 6.1

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 3,572,202

Temples: 16

Other

• First Quorum of the Seventy organized and role of assistants to 12 diminished
• Church Office Building dedicated
• Assistants to the Presidency named and lead areas
• Temples announced in Sao Paulo, Tokyo and Seattle
• Auxiliary Conferences discontinued
• Renovations and rededications of St George and Mesa temples
• Elder Benson represents Church at White House Forum on Domestic Policy – President compliments Church for placing Vietnam refugees
• President Kimball speaks to 44,500 members in the Far East
• 100th anniversary of BYU
• Fifteen stakes created in Mexico in one weekend