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Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 70
Harry Chester Peterson 74
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 74

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 37
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 33

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Peggy Lynette Lowe 10
Sandra LaNae Lowe 9
Debra Eileen Lowe 3
Michelle Ann Lowe 1

General

Population: 4.16 Billion

• Economics: Milton Friedman wins Nobel Prize
• Entertainment: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky
  Television: NBC Broadcasts Gone with the Wind with high ratings
  Writers include Tom Stoppard, Kurt Vonnegut, Alex Haley, Gore Vidal, Dame Agatha Christie (ENG), Kathryn Kuhlman (US faith healer)Tom Stoppard, David Rabe, William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut, Alex Haley, Gore Vidal, Dame Agatha Christie (ENG), Kathryn Kuhlman (US faith healer)
• Religion: Episcopal Church approves ordination of women
• Science: Viking 2 lands on Mars
  Soyuz spacecraft docks with Salyut space station
  New atomic particle detected known as upsilon particle – family of psions
  Woese proposes kingdoms reclassified as bacteria, archaea and eukarya
• Deaths: Werner Heisenberg of Germany, Swiss chemist Leopold Ruzicka, Keith Relf of the Yardbirds died while practicing guitar and is electrocuted
  Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery British leader who defeated Germans at El Alamein EGY,
  Russian geneticist Trofim D Lysenko
  Adolf Zuckor, Rosalind Russell, Man Ray, Lily Pons, Guy Lombardo, Gina Bachauer, Alexander S Wiener discoverer of Rh blood factor, American musician Paul Rebeson, Howard Hughes

Africa

• General: Ebola Zaire outbreak first noted
• Angola: Civil War causes 9k refugees to flee to Namibia
• Central African Republic: Renamed Central African Empire with President Jean Bedel Bokassa
• Rhodesia: Whites accept black majority rule in principle
• Seychelles: Independence in British Commonwealth
• South Africa: Deaths of schoolchildren spur race riots against apartheid in Soweto and other towns - blacks against police
• Spanish Sahara: Divided into Morocco and Mauritania
• Transkei: Independence from South Africa to 1994 - first part to proclaim independence
• Uganda: Israeli commandos rescue hostages in Uganda taken by Pro-Palestinian hijackers

Americas

• Argentina: "Dirty war" between military and guerilla forces
  Argentinian peso devalued
  Maria Estela Martinez de Peron President overthrown and Lt. General Jorge Videla becomes president
• Canada: French Canadians campaign for independence founding Parti Quebecois
  Summer Olympics in Montreal
  Anglican Church ordains six women as priests
• Guatemala: Earthquake kills 23,000
• Mexico: Jose Lopez Portillo becomes President in place of Luis Echeverria Alvarez
• Nicaragua: Civil war to 1979
• Venezuela: Petroleum nationalized

Asia

• Brazil: Roman catholic Church accuses military government of violating human rights,
• Cambodia: Khieu Samphan named Chairman in Cambodia – Pol Pot (Tol Saut) appointed Premier and slaughter follows
• China: Tangshan earthquake kills over 242,000, also quake in Peking
  Death of Mao Tse Tung and Zhou Enlai
  End of cultural revolution with fall of "Gang of Four"
  Hua Kuo-feng appointed Premier in China
  Coup attempt on Mao's widow and counterrevolutionaries
• India: Bay of Bengal tsunami kills 100,000
• Indonesia: Annexation of East Timor (Portuguese Timor), Quake in Bali
• Japan: Takeo Fukuda elected Prime Minister
• Malasia: Death of Abdul Razak Premier - Hussein Onn leads
• Papua-New Guinea: Independence from Australia
• Philippines: Tsunami and quake in Mindanao kill 5-8 thousand
• Thailand: Government falls in military coup
• Vietnam: Reunification with Hanoi as capital and Saigon renamed Ho Chi Minh City

Europe

• General: Orient Express ends Istanbul-to-Paris run
  Concordes take off from London and Paris to Washington – regular service begins
• Austria: Kurt Waldheim wins approval for second term as UN secretary general
  12th Winter Olympics
• East Germany: Government issues restrictions on emigration to the West
• Finland: Helsinki convention of Human Rights adopted
• France: Pompidou Center built
• Great Britain: Worst drought on record
  Currency decline against dollar<
  British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns – James Callaghan succeeds him/li>
• Ireland: Cearbhall O Dalaigh resigns as President – Patrick J Hillery reigns
• Italy: Currency falls against US dollar
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• Poland: Pope Paul VI asks Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski to continue as Poland's Catholic leader
• Portugal: Riots and unrest
  General Antonio Ramalho Eanes elected President
• Soviet Union: US and USSR limit size of undergbround nuclear explosions
• Sweden: Premier Olof Palme resigns after Social Democratic Party defeated
• Switzerland: French Archbishop Marcel Lefévre suspended by Pope Paul VI for rejecting reforms by Second Vatican Council – - continues to day Latin Mass and ordains 13 deacons at his seminary in Econe SWI
• West Germany: Chancellor Helmut Schmidt wins reelection
  Arrest of Joachim Kroll in Germany for killing - police found blocked pipe full of guts and body parts cooking and in the fridge - killed at least 13
• Yugoslavia: Two planes crash overhead killing 176

Middle East

• Israel: PLO admitted as member of Arab League straining Arab-Israel relations
  Palestinians cause hijackings
• Lebanon: Civil war between Christians and Muslims to 1982 - fighting includes Syrians and Palestinians as well
• Saudi Arabia: Parliament elects Christian leader Elias Sarkis as president
  Attempt to bring iceberg from south pole to Saudi Arabia proposed
• Syria: Archaeologists discover civilization of Ebla
• Turkey: Quakes eastern Turkey

Pacific

• Australia: Gives up control of Papua New Guinea

President:

Pres: Gerald Ford
Pres: James E. "Jimmy" Carter elected over Ford

General

• US Bicentennial
• Business: Death of American oil billionaire J Paul Getty, death of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes
• Entertainment: Annie on Broadway
  Video game "Odyssey" introduced
  Movie Rocky released
• Law: The word "God" banned from writings or references of any Board of Education document
  US copyright laws revised
• Military: US Air Force Academy admits 155 women
• Politics: Daniel P Moynihan resigns as UN ambassador – William W Scranton replaces
  Ford and Carter debate three times on national television and Mondale and Dole meet in vice-presidential debates
• Religion: Reverend Moon ends US ministry with rallies – parents protest against brainwashing of young members
  US Lutherans split over interpretation of Bible and administration
  Jim Jones of People's Temple admits atheism, but under guise of religion expands communist cult - praised by Mondale
  Only 30-40% of Americans claim to be "born again" but after Carter proclaims the number increases
• Science: National Academy of Science proposes aerosols harm ozone layer
  detailed radar observations on the surface of Venus
  Landing vehicles from Viking I and II set down on Mars
• Sports:Hank Aaron retires
• Technology: Apple computers founded and Apple I sold unassembled

East

• General: Hurricane Belle
• Massachusetts: MIT scientists construct dynthetic gene
  Manslaughter abortion case overturned by MA court
  Tanker Argo Merchant runs aground off Nantucket, spilling oil
• New York: Heavy rains expose Love Canal chemicals
  Death of NY Mafia boss Carlo Gambino
• Pennsylvania: Mysterious illness kills 29 American Legion members in Philadelphia – named Legionnaire's Disease
• Washington DC: "Smokey (the) Bear" US symbol of fire prevention dies at Nantional Zoo
  Record snowfall

Midwest

• Illinois: Death of Richard J Daley Mayor of Chicago
• Missouri: Governor rescinds extermination order

South

• Oklahoma: Roman bronze coin found in Heavener originally from Antioch Syria in 63 AD,

West and Pacific

• California: Drought results in water rationing
• Colorado: Big Thomson River flood
• Idaho: Teton Dam bursts
• Utah: Ford wins vote - loses nationallybr>Senator Orrin Hatch elected
  Ronald reagan visits Utah

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 3,742,749

Temples: 16

Other

• Two new sections of the Doctrine and Covenants added
• Missouri governor rescinds extermination order
• "Mormon Will" of Howard Hughes supposedly going to Melvin Dummar a Utah gas station operator
• MTC in Provo opens
• Teton dam bursts - mostly LDS driven from homes
• Nine area conferences held in South pacific
• LDS "Mo" Udall defeated by Carter in Wisconsin primary by one percent
• President Kimball speaks to 17,000 in British Isles
• Church participates in Bicentennial programs
• Area conferences in Europe addressed by President Kimball with 25,000 members
• Assistants to Twelve released and first council of Seventy becomes First Quorum of Seventy