2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 72
Harry Chester Peterson 76
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 76

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 39
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 35

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 12
Sandra LaNae Lowe 11
Debra Eileen Lowe 5
Michelle Ann Lowe 3
Lori Ellen Lowe 1

General

Population: 4.31 Billion

• Economics: "Group of 30" (G30) forms from international heads of capital
• Entertainment: James Joyce publishes (posthumously)
  Grease movie created
  Disco comes into vogue
• Food: Coke and Pepsi vie for international rights
  Ben & Jerry's opens
• Medicine: Genetically engineered human insulin first produced
  First test-tube baby - see England
• Politics: Camp David Summit between Israel and Egypt
• Religion: Pope Paul VI dies and Pope Paul I appointed (Albino Luciani Belluno) who then dies and Pope John Paul II appointed (Carol) as first Polish Pope
• Science: Discovery of Pluto's moon Charon
  Dinosaur embryos proven
  Geneticist Lewis reports experiments with Drosophila show gene layout relative to body plan
  Mariner probe visits Mercury
  Pioneer 11 visits Saturn
  Pioneer 12 visits Venus
  Genetically engineered human insulin first produced
• Technology: Velcro hits the market
  Hayes Corp creates modems
  Epson introduces dot-matrix printer
  TCP/IP Internet Protocol adopted
  WordStar word processing leads the industry
  Apple introduces disc drive,
• Travel: First transcontinental balloon flight
  Thor Heyerdahl sails from Iraq to Djibouti (AFR)
• Deaths: Hubert Humphrey, Golda Meir, margaret Mead, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, Charles Boyer, Norman Rockwell, Nicholas Nabokov, US billionaire John D MacArthur, Radio Shack founder Howard Tandy, John D Rockefeller III, William Lear (jet designer)

Africa

• Algeria: Death of ruler Houari Boumedienne
• Egypt: Egyptian-born Harith Hasson develops laproscopic tools
• Guinea-Bissau: President dies
• Kenya: Death of PresidentJomo Kenyatta
• Madagascar: Death of Philibert Tsiranana president of Malagasy Republic
• Mauritania: President Moktar Ould Daddah ousted
• Monaco: Princess Caroline of Monaco marries Philippe Junot
• Rhodesia: Civil war continues
• South Africa: Helen Joseph jailed for refusing to testify against Winnie Mandela
  John Vorster resigns as Prime Minister of South Africa and Pieter Willem Botha rules
  Namibia planned as independent government from South Africa
• Tanzania: Mary leakey finds hominid footprints at Olduvai Gorge dating 3.65 mya A. afarensis
• Zaire: Shaba (Katanga) province invaded – Europeans evacuate – US airlifts troops from Morocco to help repel invaders from Angola, Cuba, and Russia

Americas

• Bolivia: Army ousts president - 200th coup in 158 years of independence
• Canada: Development of "no-name brands"
• Colombia: Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala elected president
• Dominica: Independence
• Dominican Republic: Antonio Guzman elected President – first peaceful transfer in Dominican history
• Guatemala: Guatemalans elect new president but Lucas Garcia continues brutal dictatorship
• Guyana: five to fifteen Americans shot by members of the Peoples temple (California cult) – Jim Jones and 917 others die in murder-suicide
• Honduras: Military junta takes control
• Mexico: Earthquake
• Nicaragua: Sandinista rebels fight US-backed government leading to violdence at attempted overthrow of President Anastasio Somoza
  Publisher Chamorro killed for political reasons
• Panama: US ratifies treaties with Panama
• Paraguay: Death of president

Asia

• General: China and Japan sign trade agreement
• Cambodia: Vietnamese invade and oust Khmer Rouge
• China: Den Xiaoping advocates economic reforms
  Premier Chiang Ching-kuo elected president
  US establishes full diplomatic relations
  Beijing adopts Pinyin style of spelling names with Roman letters
  Government receives report about lowering population
  US and China relations restored and relations with Taiwan diminish
• India: Air India crash kills 213
  Tornado kills 600
• Japan: Premier Takeo Fukuda and Chinese Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-ping attend signing of Japanese-Chinese treaty of peace and friendship - treaty protested by Moscow
  Explorer Naomi Uemura makes first solo journey to North Pole
  Earthquake
  Nikkei closes above 6000
  Tokyo airport opens amid protests
  Toshiba develops Japanese word processor
• Nepal: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler first climb Everest without oxygen
• North Vietnam: China invades
• Philippines: President Ferdinand E Marcos becomes Premier
• Solomon Islands: (Solomon Islands of Tuvalu) formerly Ellice Islands become independent
• South Korea: US House Committee investigates Korean lobbying scandal
• Sri Lanka: Prime Minister Junius Richard Jayawardene becomes president under new system
• Vietnam: 25-year peace accord with Soviet Union
  Mass exodus of "boat people"
  China invades north

Europe

• General: Earthquake in central Europe
• Bulgaria: Georgi Markov the dissident shot by ricin pellet by modified umbrella in London
• France: Supertanker "Amoco Cadiz" breaks apart off of France spilling 220,000 tons of oil,
• Germany: End of production of Volkswagen "Beetle"
• Great Britain: Louise Brown (Joy Louise Steptoe), the first test-tube baby is born
  Prime Minister James Callaghan decides against holding elections – despite his likelihood to win… eventually leading to Margaret Thatcher
  Princess Margaret of Britain and Anthony Armstrong-Jones divorce
• Greece: Earthquake
• Hungary: Crown of St. Stephen returned after 32 years in US
• Ireland: Death of President Cearbhall O' Dalaigh
• Italy: Former Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigades group
  President Giovanni Leone of Italy resigns and Pertini elected
  Red Brigades members convicted in Torino
• Portugal: Discord between Portugal's political parties brings vote of no confidence
• Soviet Union: Yuri Orlov Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and convicted
  Cosmonauts orbit for over 139 days
  Fighter attacks Korean jet over Russian territory
  Government rescinds citizenships of musicians Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya (wife), Krzysztof,
• Spain: King Juan Carlos I ratifies Spain's democratic constitution
• Vatican City: First Polish Pope (Karol Józef Wojtyla)

Middle East

• General: Preliminary Camp David agreements signed - Begin and Sadat agree on framework for mideast peace negotiated by Carter
  OPEC starts raising oil prices
• Afghanistan: Military junta takes power
• Cyprus: Sprtos Kyprianou the Cypariot lawyer becomes president
• Iran: Earthquake measures 7.7
  Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlavi imposes martial rule to end anti-government demonstrations (religious riots)
  oil industry shut down by striking workers and self-exiled Moslem leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini appeals for labor strife to topple the Shah – - modern reforms result in revolt – Abadan movie theater torched killing 377 – martial law
• Israel: Wadi Haddad the PLO leader dies (terrorist)
• Jordan: King Hussein marries Elizabeth Halaby
• Lebanon: Israel invades
  Arab League separate Syrian and Christian militias and restore peace to Lebanon
  Religious civil war continues
• Pakistan: President resigns and General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq rules
• Turkey: Bulent Ecevit named president
• Yemen: South Yemen's President deposed and blown up by pro-Soviet faction

Pacific

• General: Small asteroid explodes over South Pacific
• Antarctica: First person born in Antarctica - Emilio Palma
• Australia: Former Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies dies
• Solomon Islands: Independence
• Tuvalu: Independence

President:

Pres: James E. "Jimmy" Carter

General

• Art: Andy Warhol paints self-portrait
• Business: Firestone recalls steelbelted radials tires – 10 million
  Ford Pinto explodes after being struck and complaints rise that Ford knew
  US airline deregulation
• Crime: David R Berkowitz "Son of Sam" receives life in prison
  Ottis Toole meets Henry Lee Lucas and the two commit cannibal murders, including possibly the son of John Walsh
  John Wayne Gacey aka "Pogo the Clown" arrested for deaths of 33
• Culture: For first time ever women outnumber men in colleges
• Entertainment: "Garfield" comic strip begins
  Last Carol Burnet Show broadcast
  Superman debuts
  Ain't Misbehavin' and Evita debut
  "Space Invaders" introduced
  Speak and Spell usues digital speech synthesis in a toy
  20/20 debuts with Geraldo Rivera
  Erma Bombeck publishes
  "The World According to Garp" by Irving
  "The Turner Diaries" Neo-Nazi work by "Andrew MacDonald (William L Pierce)
• Environment: Protests of nuclear reactors on the coasts
  CFC sprays banned in US
• Fashion: Versache stages first show
  start of Adidas craze
• Finance: US dollar plunges in value
  Mandatory retirement raised to 70
  Carter authorizes Susan B Anthony dollars
  401k retirement started
  US inflation rises but stocks rise - Carter lowers taxes
  Banks allowed to charge interest rates depending on their home state
• Law: Supreme Court votes to undo "reverse discrimination"
• Medicine: CDC experiments with hepatitis B vaccine and asks for promiscuous homosexual men – serum pooled in chimps and many fear this is where HIV crossed over
  Prozac approved by FDA
  US government starts campaign against smoking – Carter decides instead to make tobacco safer
• Military: Brigadeer General Margaret A Brewer first female general in US Marines
• Politics: Senate ratifies Panama Canal treaties
  Foreign Intelligence Surveliance Act becomes law by Carter
  Ethics in Government Act results in partisan fights
  Presidential Records Act calls for release of Presidential papers 12 years after administration – should go into effect 1981 but 2001 repealed
  Congress extends ERA (Rights Amendment) ratification date until 1982
  Washington recognizes China and announces it will sever ties with Taiwan although it negates a 1954 treaty
• Religion: Church of God radio evangelist Armstrong excommunicates son – son retorts with charges of money fraud
• Sports: Leon Spinks wins heavyweight boxing and Mohammed Ali beats Spinks to win title third time
  Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors lead tennis
  Affirmed wins Triple Crown
  Ruling that female reporters cannot be barred from locker rooms
• Technology: Oracle Systems makes first relational database for computers
  Japanese-born MIT student creates "smart" gel polymers
  Intel starts microchip production
• Transportation: First trans-atlantic crossing by balloon by US
• Deaths: Kurt Gödel the Austrian/American mathematician dies of starvation while wife is hospitalized, US Mafia leader Joseph Colombo Sr., Edgar Bergen the ventriloquist, The Who drummer Keith Moon of drug overdose
  Flying Wallendas performer Karl dies in fall

East

• General: Great Blizzard of '78 in New England
• Connecticut: Hartford CT coliseum collapses under snow - stadium was empty
• New Jersey: Oil drilling approved offshore
  Princeton's Torus test reactor experiments with fusion and reaches temp of 60 million degrees F for 1/20 of a second
• New York: Love Canal declared unsafe and evacuated
  NY Times strike due to sex discrimination

Midwest

• Illinois: Prison riot
  Chicago Daily News closes
• Missouri: Christo creates scenic art in Kansas City
• South Dakota: Cabrillo Marine Museum completed.

South

• General: Longest US coal strike ends after 110 days
• Florida: Ted Bundy captured in Pensacola
• Georgia: US Porn dealer Larry Flynt shot and paralyzed
• West Virginia: Five women submit to sterilization to keep jobs in lead-compound ruch workplace

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane founde beated to death in his Scottsdale apartment
• California: Human insulin produced from recombinant DNA
  Dan White of San Francisco kills Mayor Moscone and gay supervisor Harvey Milk
  Death of studio head Jack L Warner in LA
  Richard Chase "Vampire of Sacramento" arrested
  Jim Jones and People's Temple leave for Guyana Citizens reject initiative (Prop 6) that would have made it illegal for homosexual proponents to teach in schools
  CA votes to lower property taxes
  Jetliner collides with small plane over San Diego and 144 die
• Utah: Emanuel David (cult leader) commits suicide in Salt Lake as children thrown off SLC building then mother (11th floor) – one child survives severely injured

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 4,166,854

Temples: 17

17. Sao Paulo Brazil

Other

• All worthy men can have Priesthood
• Church established in West Africa
• Provo MTC begins training all missionaries after closure of Salt Lake mission home
• Emeritus status granted General Authorities
• Church officially has a stake in each state - North Dakota last
• Church membership reaches 4 million
• Stake Conferences only held twice a year
• Reader's Digest ad campaign
• Mormon Trail recognized by Senate
• Ford visits Utah and President Kimball's biography is presented – FHE with Dallin H. Oaks family
• Carter concerned with LDS opinion of Panama Canal treaties due to outspoken Ezra Taft Benson, but Church proclaims neutrality
• Carter sends congratulatory telegram to Church regarding Priesthood to all worthy males
• Carter speaks in Tabernacle during National Family Week
• South Visitor's Center in SLC built
• First annual Women's Meeting - audio broadcast
• Genealogy extraction program created - Personal and family history reemphasized with four-generation program
• "Basic Unit" program for church growth outlines layers of development
• Jordan River temple announced
• Member and former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver writes Soul on Fire
• Monument to Women dedicated in nauboo