2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 73
Harry Chester Peterson 77
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 77

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 40
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 36

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 13
Sandra LaNae Lowe 12
Debra Eileen Lowe 6
Michelle Ann Lowe 4
Lori Ellen Lowe 2

General

Population: 4.38 Billion

• Anthropology: Johansen announces find of "Lucy" Australopithecus afarensis
• Economy: Inflation as gold prices rise
  OPEC raises oil prices
• Entertainment: Sondheim's "Sweeny Todd" and Webber's "Evita" and "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" debut
  Video game "Asteroids" introduced
  The Elephant Man written
  Star Trek motion picture debuts
  Launch of Nickleodeon
• Environment: Gaia hypothesis published by James Lovelock
• Fashion: Claude Montana opens couture house – specializes in leather
• Food: Diets of low-fat and low-cholesterol foods make waves
  Screwpull corkscrew invented
• Medicine: Smallpox eradicated
  Human insulin synthesized from E coli
  Needleman shows how lead poisoning results in low IQs
• Religion: Mother Teresa receives Nobel Peace Prize
• Science: Biogen learns to sequence nucleotides
  Z-DNA discovered
  gluon particle shown
  Dehmelt photographs single atom
  Belmont Report mandates basic principles for human research
  Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit
• Technology: Voyager Probe launched
  Segate Technology manufactures "floppy" disk drives
  Video disk comes to market
  Hayes sells modem that connects to phone lines
  First handheld video games
  Apple II emerges with BASIC pre-built into system
  Motorola introduces microprocessor with 16mb of memory
• Deaths: Josef Mengele, Peggy Guggenheim, Nelson A Rockefeller, US ambassador Adolph Dubs (gunfire in Afghanistan), Jean Monnet (FRA) of European Community, former Czech president Ludvik Svoboda, Park Chung Hee (S Korea assassinated), Pakistan's former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged, French military commander Maurice Challe, Angolan president Agostinho Neto, , Pedro Gerado Beltran(Peru), Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (MEX), Mamie Eisenhower, "Red Rudi" Dutschke in DEN, Mary Pickford, John Wayne, Sid Vicious (heroin overdose) of Sex Pistols

Africa

• Angola: Death of president Agostinho Neto
• Central African Republic: Created from Central African Empire
  Emperor Bokassa I overthrown and Dacko regains power
• Equatorial Guinea: Bloodless coup
• Ghana: Coup
• Maruitania: President resigns
• Sudan: Ebola breakout
• Uganda: Guerillas and Ugandan and Tanzanian troops force Idi Amin Dada into exile
• Venda: Independence from South Africa to 1994
• Zimbabwe: Rhodesian whites enfranchise all blacks and rename the country Zimbabwe Rhosedia

Americas

hurricane in Lesser Antilles,
• Brazil: Death of Josef Mengele the Butcher of Auschwitz - drowns under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard
• Canada: Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark becomes youngest prime minister
• Caribbean: Independence for Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Kirabati (Gilbert Islands), and the Grenadines
  Atlantic Empress collides and is towed toward Texas until it sank - oil spill 7 times as large at Exxon Valdez in 1989
• Colombia: Earthquake
• Ecuador: Earthquake
• El Salvador: Romero deposed in military coup
• Grenada: Leftist coup
• Guatemala: Native people systematically driven out
• Mexico: Death of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
  Oilwell blowout for three months results in Gulf contamination
• Nicaragua: Dictator Anastasio Somoza resigns and Sandinistas including Daniel Ortega Saavedra rule
• Panama: Panama Canal Zone returns to Panama
• Peru: death of Pedro Gerado Beltran
  Chungar landslide
• Puerto Rico: Tsunami in San Juan

Asia

• Cambodia: Democratic Kampuchea named back to Cambodia – original name before 1970
  End of Khmer Rouge and start of People's Republic to 1989
• China: China and US establish diplomatic relations
  Deng Ziaoping cracks down on dissidents
  China calls for one-child policy – severe penalties imposed – females aborted often
  Population reaches 1 billion
  Deng Xiaoping visits US and later cracks down on protests
  Sino-American pact grants China favored-nation status,
• Hong Kong: Subway opens
• India: Launching of Bhaskara satellite
• Japan: Japanese microchip makers begin to dominate
  First cell phones in Tokyo then Chicago
  Typhoon Tip largest cyclone on record - weakens by the time it reached Japan
• Java: Eruption of Mount Merapi
• Micronesia: Self-rule
• South Korea: Park Chung Hee assassinated
• Taiwan: Washington breaks ties with Taiwan in favor of China
• Vietnam: Fighting between Vietnam and China

Europe

• General: German Walter Kellner publishes story of sea crash and Austrian Walter Kellner protests plagiarism – magazine verifies both stories true
  First direct elections held in European Parliament for 9 EEC members
  European monetary system goes into operation
• Bulgaria: Bulgarian newspaper editor murdered for publishing while Bulgarian critic murdered by ricin assassination
• Croatia: Quake
• Czechoslovakia: Death of former Czech president Ludvik Svoboda
• Denmark: Death of "Red Rudi" Dutschke
• East Germany: Two families flee from E Germany by balloon
• France: Nice hit by tsunami - possibly caused by construction landslide - 23 dead
  Death of military commander Maurice Challe
  Death of Jean Monnet of EC
  Paris drops in-restaurant breathalyzer tests
• Great Britain: Prime minister James Callaghan loses with vote of no confidence – garbage strikes and unburied corpses leades to protests.
  Conservative Margaret (Hilda) Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister
  Earl Mountbatten murdered by IRA
  50-lb bomb by IRA terrorists kill cousin of Elizabeth II aboard of Lord Mountbatten's fishing ship
  Sir Anthony Blunt revealed to be Soviet spy – remains curator but stripped of knighthood
  First British nude beach
  Scotland votes for home rule, but never implemented
  Peter LeComber of Scotland shows how to build transistors and LCD displays from silicon
  Liberal Party Leader Thorpe charged with having his ex-lover killed – career ruined
  Post office inaugurates television information system
• Greece: Greece grants non-mutual divorces
• Hungary: Rubik's Cube for sale in Budapest – next year in US
• Ireland: First sighting of Monster of Lough Brin
• Malta: Freedom declared
• Soviet Union: Soviets release five dissidents
  Accidental release of anthrax spores – hundreds killed – protests by other nations
  Rogun Dam started
  Plane crashes in Ukraine
• West Germany: maglev train exhibited in Hamburg

Middle East

• General: Camp David Accord - Mid-East Peace Treaty met with dismay and split of PLO
  Jesse Jackson attempts to negotiate peace in Middle East
  OPEC raises prices to $20 a barrel with limited production – prices rise to $24-$40
• Afghanistan: Soviets invade to support Marxists and guerillas fight Soviet troops
  US ambassador Adolph Dubs killed by gunfire
• Egypt: Boycott by other of Islamic countries
• General: Camp David Accords declare limited peace
• Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini leads Shiite Muslim revolution and Shah ousted and flees to Panama- "Satanic" US accused of causing disunity
  American hostages taken at embassy by Iranian students
  Earthquake
  Government bans family planning Iranian women protests revocation of Family Protection Law and forces rollbacks including wearing the chandor
• Iraq: President Ahmen Hassan al-Bakr resigns and Saddam Hussein leads
• Israel: Terrorist bomb - strike against Lebanon and Palestinians
• Pakistan: Former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged
• Saudi Arabia: Plane crash
  Sunni Muslims occupy Mecca's Grand Mosque and 75 are killed in shootout with Saudi police
• Turkey: Plans for Greek temple found at Dudyma created in 334 BC
• Yemen: Border war - Carter sends arms

Pacific

• Antarctica: Plane crash
• Australia: US Skylab crashes back to earth in western Australia killing one cow

President:

Pres: James E. "Jimmy" Carter

General

Arthur McDuffie beaten to death by police – racism charges – some officers indicted for manslaughter for the coverup
• Business: Robert Williams at Ford Motor Co. plant killed by robot – hit him in the head
  George Soros becomes billionaire
  Home Depot founded
  Carter deregulates US oil industry because of shortages
  Renault saves American Motors form bankruptcy
  Chrysler bailout loans
  Reebok shoes introduced to compete with Nike Adidas and Puma
• Crime: Raymond Washington founder of the Crips shot
  Mafia boss Galante gunned down by rival group
  US drug use skyrockets
  FDA cracks down of dexadrine amphetamines as appetite suppressants (speed)
  Ted Bundy convicted of murder
• Culture: Illegal for kindergarteners to ask whose birthday is celebrated for Christmas
• Energy: 9 US nuclear reactors go online – because of three mile island new sites discouraged – new reactors cancelled
• Entertainment: Birth of fictional character Bart Simpson
  Disco becomes scapegoat for all evils and phrase "disco sucks" becomes popular
  Antiques Roadshow debuts
• Food: Start of Zagat restaurant surveys
• Law: Affirmative action upheld by Supreme Court
  First palimony case for unmarried couple
  Supreme court rules parent permission for abortions unconstitutional
• Medicine: Rosalyn Carter testifies before congress for the mentally ill
  Kidney dialysis paid for through medicare
  Barbara Gordon writes about valium addiction
• Military: US Senators block SALT (Arms Limitation Treaty)
• Natives: Navajo elderwoman Katherine Smith fires at government crew on Navajo lands – acquitted
• News: C-SPAN broadcasts
  Morning Edition debuts on NPR
• Politics: Rosalynn Carter urges women to get male support for ERA
  US Secretary of Education appointed increasing spending but proficiency plummets
  Carter establishes FEMA from merged units
• Religion: Beverly LaHaye (wife of Tim) opposes Betty Friedan's anti-God stances – membership in her CWA organization grows
  Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell – until 1989
• Science: Voyager I discovers ring around Jupiter
  
• Sports: ESPN begins broadcasting
• Technology: VisiCalc turns Apple II into business machine – soon available for Tandy Commodore and Atari
  CompuServe goes online with first commercial electronic mail
  AOL begins
  Walkman cassette player introduced at $200
  First space shuttle Columbia prepares for launch
• Weather: Winter of '79 reported as coldest in US recorded history

East

• New York: US drug use skyrockets – NYC lowers penalties to deal with backlogged cases
  John Bowen at New York Jets half-time show dies when remote-control flying machines hits him in the head
  Guardian Angels civilians patrol NYC
• Pennsylvania: 3 Mile Island nuclear accident results in problems with cooling – little radiation released and core does not melt down

Midwest

• General: Lake Superior freezes
• Illinois: Plane crashes – Chicago O'Hare airport
  Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic fails to remove New Years snowfall and because of that looses primary election to Jane Byrne
  50,000 attend disco demolition night at White Sox game – crowd tears up field and Sox forfeit
• Kansas: Deadly tornado in Wichita Falls
• Missouri: Kansas City arena collapses during thunderstorm
• Ohio: 11 concertgoers crushed at "The Who" concert in Cincinnati
  Government begins paying for Kent State shootings
• Oklahoma: Oklahoma City jury decides Kerr-McGee must pay to the estate of Karen Silkwood

South

• Florida: First use of electric chair in US after death penalty reinstated – John Spenkelink of FL
  Miami-Dade County repeals ordinance favoring homosexuals and some boycott Florida orange juice
• Georgia: Jimmy Carter attacked by swamp rabbit near Plains GA
  Atlanta serial killer kills at least 20 black children (nearly all boys) – never discovered
• Louisiana: Paul Prudhomme opens restaurant in New Orleans – run on redfish in Gulf leading to regulation
• North Carolina: Klansmen in Greensboro NC fire on Communists killing three – declared gang war and acquitted

West and Pacific

• California: Brenda Ann Spencer is convicted of a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego
  Richard Trenton Chase US serial killer in CA – ate and drank victims -fear of his soap dish – killed at least six
  Sardines return to California after 40-year absence
• Hawaii: Telescope on Mauna Kea
• Wyoming: Cheyenne, WY blizzard produces 29.8 8inches of snow

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 4,404,121

Temples: 17

Other

• LDS King James version of Bible published
• 1,000th Stake created at Nauvoo
• Sections 138 and 139 moved from Pearl of Great Price to Doctrine and Covenants
• Orson Hyde Memorial Gardens dedicated in Jerusalem
• First East African converts baptized
• Stake Conference frequency reduced to 5wice yearly
• Family Entry System for genealogy created
• Tabernacle Choir tours Japan and Korea, 50 year anniversary of broadcast