2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 71
Harry Chester Peterson 75
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 75

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 38
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 34

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 11
Sandra LaNae Lowe 10
Debra Eileen Lowe 4
Michelle Ann Lowe 2
Lori Ellen Lowe born

General

Population: 4.23 Billion

• Crime: last execution by guillotine
• Culture: Nobel Peace Prize to Amnesty International
• Entertainment: In exchange for 20k salary cut George Lucas retains merchandising rights to all Star Wars films
  Rocky, Star Wars, and Annie Hall (Woody Allen) debut
  Miniseries Roots draws audience of 130 million
• Fashion: Yves St. Laurent launches Opium perfume
• Literature: J.R.R. Tolkien's last work published posthumously
• Medicine: Smallpox wiped out
  First coronary angioplasty accomplished
• Science: Rings around Uranus discovered - part of Voyager II trip past outer planets
  Possible discovery of quark – one third electron charge
  Sun's magnetic field determined by Pioneer II spacecraft
  Discovery of mini-planet between Saturn and Uranus
  Discovery of methanogens (first archaea)
• Technology: Apple II computer introduced
• Travel: Gossamer Condor flown - human-powered aircraft
• Death: Sir Charles (Charlie) Chaplan, Earl of Avon and Prime Minister Sir Robert Anthony Eden, Opera singer Maria Callas, Vladimir Nabokov, Zero Mostel, Joan Crawford, Groucho Marx, Joe Musial (Katzenjammer Kids), Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, Wernher von Braun, W German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard

Africa

• General: Clashes between Somali and Ethiopian forces over Ogaden area
  Rift Valley Fever emerges in Egypt
• Angola: Angolan forces invade Shaba (formerly Katanga)
• Bophuthatswana: Independent from South Africa to 1994 - formerly Afars and Issas
• Central African Republic: Cannibal and president for life Jean Bedel Bokassa declares self Emperor Bokassa I
• Djibouti: French Somaliland (formerly Afars and Issas) changes name
• Ethiopia: Civil War
  Death of Ethiopian leader Teferi Bante, and ruling military council names Mengistu Haile Mariam head of state
• Rhodesia: Prime Minister Ian Smith announces government will work out political settlement with black majority
• South Africa: Death of black leader Steven Biko
  Tom Pryce a formula One race driver killed in South African Grand Prix when struck in the face with a fire extinguisher
• Tanzania: Black activist Bishop Josiah M Kibira elected head of Lutheran World Federation
• Uganda: Atrocities under Amin regime
• Zaire: Katanga rebels from Angola invade but are defeated
  Eruption of Nyiragongo
• Zimbabwe: Rhodesia agrees to name change and rebels agree to majority rule of blacks

Americas

• Argentina: Earthquake devastates north-west
• Brazil: Pele plays last professional soccer game,
• Canada: French adopted as official language of Quebec
  Canadian Cindy Nichold completes round-trip swim across English Channel
• El Salvador: US backs military ruler in coup that kills 70k Salvadorans and four American nuns
• Guyana: California sect "People's Temple" Jim Jones followers move to Guyana to build utopia
• Panama: Panama Canal treaty signed by Panama chief Omar Torrijos and Carter
• Trinidad and Tobago: Janelle Penny Commissiong becomes first black Miss Universe

Asia

• Cambodia: Pol Pot named Secretary General of Cambodia's Communists
• India: Indira Gandhi ousted/resigns and Morarji Desai rules
  Cyclone kills 20k and leaves 2 million homeless
• Japan: Volcano
  Sadaharu Oh hits 756th home run
• Laos: Friendship treaty signed with Vietnam communists
• Philippines: Filipino couple receive bank error getting $1,000,000 instead of $1,000 – money spent by time bank notices
  Typhoon
• South Korea: US Justice Department looks for South Korean lobbyist coverup
• Taiwan: Typhoon
• Thailand: Military junta takes control

Europe

• General: Last run of Oriental Express between Paris and Istanbul
  Regular passenger service begins on Concorde between US and Europe
• Austria: Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg dies
• Canary Islands: Worst major airline disaster reported over Canary Island of Tenerife, killing 581
• Czechoslovakia: New human rights manifesto signed by 240 activists and intellectuals – harassed by police
• France: Jacques Chirac former French Premier elected Mayor of Paris
• Great Britain: Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee
  British scientists report first complete genome of an organism
• Greece: Tomb of Philip II of Macedon found
• Italy: Volcano
• Norway: Offshore oil well in North Sea capped after blowing for eight days – 8.2 million gallons spilled
• Portugal: Socialist minority government of Premier Mario Soares falls
• Romania: Quake kills 1500
  death of Romanian adventruess Magda Lupescu
• Soviet Union: Helsinki accord monitoring group (many from Israel) arrested by Soviet authorities
  Leonid Brezhnev elected Soviet president
  USSR adopts new text for national anthem
  US seizes two fishing vessels for violating 200 mile zone
  Civil rights' protesters arrested
• Spain: First post-war elections following death of Franco in 1975

Middle East

• Cyprus: Death of President Archbishop Makarios III
• Egypt: Anwar Sadat visits Israel initiating peace process
• Israel: Menachem Begin becomes prime minister of Israel after Yitzhak Rabin resigns
  Sadat of Egypt visits Israel and starts negotiations
  Rudolf Barshai the Russian conductor emigrates to Israel
• Lebanon: Religious civil war
  Death of Lebanese politician Kamal Jumblatt
• Pakistan: Army overthrows government and imposes martial law
  Palistinian National Council calls for independent state
• Turkey: Government divided – minority government setps down and Suleyman Demirel becomes Premier until his coalition falls

Pacific

• Australia: "Advance Australia Fair" as national song

President:

Pres: Gerald Ford
Pres: James E. "Jimmy" Carter inaugurated

General

• Crime: G Gordon Liddy released from prison
• Culture: Anita Bryant leads anti-gay protest sparking boycott of orange juice which she had been spokesperson
• Education: SAT Scholastic Aptitude Tests show steady decline since 1963
• Entertainment: Elvis Presley dies
  Alex Haley's Roots broadcast
  Toni Morrison publishes
  Saturday Night Fever released making disco more popular and also starting the end of disco with increased popularity and over-commercialism
• Environment: Carter warns that energy crisis in US could bring a national catastrophe amd calls for changes in oil consumption
• Finance: Inflation and unemployment high
• Medicine: Intelligence agencies in US forbidden from experimenting on humans without informed consent
  National Institute of Health reports successful treatment of herpes encephalitis
• Military: Carter offers amnesty to draft evaders
  US Government awards Jeanne Connell $400,000 as sole survivor from Col. Warren's plutonium injections
  US tests neutron bomb which kills with massive radiation and leaves buildings intact
• Politics: Department of Energy created
  Reagan loses run for presidency
• Religion: John Neopomucene Neumann canonized as first male US saint
  Jacqueline Means becomes first woman ordained Episcopal priest in America
  US Orthodox Church selects first American-born prelate – Archbishop Theodosius
• Science: Submersible Alvin reveals deep-sea vent creatures
  US probes atmosphere of Venus
• Sports: Seattle Slew wins Triple Crown
  Jim Vicks starts running – loses 60 pounds and creates running craze and jogging suit popularity
• Technology: US space shuttle Enterprise makes first manned flight
  Voyager I and II begin journeys to explore outer solar system
  US scientists note rings around Uranus
• Deaths: Leader of women's movement Alice Paul

East

• New York: Blackouts in New York City with lootings and killings with 4500 arrested and 515 police injured - 9 million without power for 25 hours
  "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz arrested
  Clubs in NYC open - Studio 54 for Disco scene, and Plato's Retreat as swinger's club
  Edward I Koch elected Mayor of NYC
• Pennsylvania: Johnstown PA flood

Midwest

South

• Florida: Snow falls in Miami, major citrus damage

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Trans-Alaska pipeline ships from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez port
• California: End of killings of Kearney a freeway killer who targeted males for necrophilia – killed 28 in California
  First black mayor of Los Angeles reelected
• Colorado: First use of man-made snow in CO as high pressure in UT deflects storms around
• Hawaii: Volcano erupts

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 3,969,220

Temples: 16

Other

• Church publishes Topical Guide
• Clarification that Twelve is over ecclesiastical matters and Bishopric for temporal
• Current General Conference schedule announced - shortened from three days to two
• Gerald and Betty Ford visit Utah and are given books
• President Tanner attends Inauguration and LDS Senator Cannon from NV asked to chair the event
• President Kimball meets with Carter and presents Carter with genealogy
• Scant few Mormons in Carter White House
• Reagan visits Utah on political visit
• Poland dedicated, recognizes Church
• Church Activities Committee formed
• Mexico City temple announced
• Areas renamed zones, and smaller areas created with 70s supervising
• International Language Training Mission formed
• Bishop's storehouse - second - in Colton CA