2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 74
Harry Chester Peterson 78
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 78

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 41
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 37

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 14
Sandra LaNae Lowe 13
Debra Eileen Lowe 7
Michelle Ann Lowe 5
Lori Ellen Lowe 3

General

Population: 4.45 Billion

• Entertainment: Pac Man invented
  Bob Marley plays final live performance
  Chess player Nigel Short youngest named grand master age 14
  Writers: Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Stephen Jay Gould (The Panda's Thumb), Norman Mailer
• Environment: GE patents oil microbe for cleaning oil
  Julian L Simon predicts earth more resilient than ecologist Paul Erlich believes – predicts population will rise but prices fall by 1990 ( Simon wins bet)
• Medicine: WHO declares smallpox eradicated
  improved rabies vaccine
  Caesarian sections become more common
  lithotripsy invented to break kidney stones
  Antigens in organ transplants investigated
  TSS outbreaks lead to labeling tampons
  Eli Lilly starts using human insulin created by bacteria
• Religion: Council for Secular Humanism publishes declaration
• Science: 65 million BC extinction explained as asteroid impact
  Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  Hall effect of superconductivity explored
  Neutrino determined to have mass
  Single barium atom captured (and named)
  Silitons (individual waves with a single peak) shown to travel through optical fibers
  Physicists show that charge-parity and time symmetry can be violated
  Synchrotron radiation increased with undulator
  Drosophila mutations published – later Hox genes
  birth of Kanzi the Bonobo
  binary black holes predicted
  Gene transference in mice achieved
  Gene repeats explored
  Production of humen interferon in bacteria
• Sports: Winter Olympics in Lake Placid NY
• Technology: Personal computers begin to be available
  Textiles cut with laser beam
  First cell phone network
  Intel and Xerox creates standard for Ethernet
  International fax standard set
  Voyager encounters Jupiter
• Deaths: Jean Paul Sartre, Yugoslavia's 2nd President Tito (Josip Broz), Peter Sellers (Pink Panther), Shah of Iran, Psychologist Jean Piaget, Jesse Owens, Otto Frank (father of Anne), Tex Avery (Looney Toons), John Lennon, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, Mae West, NM Pueblo potter Maria Martinez, Jimmy Durante, "Colonel" Harlan Sanders, AC/DC singer Bon Scott, Supreme Court Chief Justice William O Douglas

Africa

• General: National Steel strike in African Jungle
• Algeria: Earthquake registers 7.7 killing about 3000
• Liberia: President William R Tolbert Jr. ousted in military coup,castrated with ears cut off – first ethnic Krahn rules Gen. Sameul K Doe
• Madagascar: Malaria outbreak
• Mauritania: President resigns and is succeeded by prime minister Mohammed Khouna Ould Haidalla
  Slavery decreed abolished but practice still continues
• Senegal: First president steps down
• Tunisia: Prime minister steps down
• Uganda: First elections in 18 years but former president Obote back in power
• Zimbabwe: Independence after guerrilla war under majority (black) rule under Robert Mugabe and ceases to be Rhodesia

Americas

• Brazil: Serra Palada gold mine discovered
  Incentives offered to colonists to settle NW part (Amazon) but soil doesn’t support agriculture – leads to deforestation scares of late 80s
• Canada: Quebec narrowly votes to stay united
  Reelection of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  "Oh, Canada" adopted as official national anthem of Canada
• Cuba: Government closes port as a third-million Cubans try to leave
• Dominican Republic: Hurricane David kills 22
• El Salvador: Civil War to 1992 as violence escalates against religious and human rights leader
• Guatemala: Spanish Embassy burned killing 36
• Guyana: Adoption of socialist constitution
• Haiti: Experimental hormone shots given to men in detention camps and they develop gynecomastia
• Nicaragua: US supports Contras
  Former dictator Anastasio Somoza assassinated
• Peru: Fernando Belaunde Terry reelected
• Puerto Rico: Governor Luis Muñnoz Marin dies
• Suriname: Army sergeants overthrow the government of Premier Henck Arron with several subsequent coups
• Uruguay: Voters reject new constitution

Asia

• China: "Gang of Four" trial
  China and US normalize relations
  Births limited to one child
• India: Indira Gandhi re-elected
  Landslide in Darjeeling
• Japan: Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira dies and Zeno Suzuki becomes new prime minister
  Birthrate falls
• Kampuchea: Khmer Republic returns to being called Cambodia then Kampuchea
• Philippines: Passenger ferry kills 313 in crash
• South Korea: General Chun Doo Hwan takes power in military coup and kills 200+ students and workers
• Vietnam: Ton Duc Thang dies

Europe

• General: Hormones in beef banned
• France: Bomb outside Paris synagogue leaves four dead
  Academie Française elects first woman to membership
• Great Britain: Birth of fictional character Harry Potter
  Church of England adopts newer version of Book of Common Prayer updating language
  Clive Sinclair develops cheap computer (Timex-Sinclair in US)
  Alexandra Palace in London destroyed by fire
  Margaret Thatcher tells Conservatives "U-turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning."
• Iceland: Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes first democratically elected woman anywhere
• Italy: Earthquakes kill between 2735 and 4800
  Violence as neo-fascists massacre 85 in railway station
  Archaeologists excavate Herculaneum
• Netherlands: Juliana of Netherlands abdicates and daughter Beatrix succeeds
• Poland: Solidarity, the Polish trade union, founded and strikes begin under Lech Walesa
  Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz resigns under accusations of corruption
  Russian troops mass on border after uprising
  Train wreck kills 62
• Portugal: Former premier Marcello Caetano dies
• Soviet Union: Premier Aleksei Nikolaievich Kosygin dies
  Radio broadcasts jammed to hide Polish unrest
  Jimmy Carter proclaims grain embargo against USSR – hurts US
  First festival of rock music in country
  Youth riots in Estonia shut down
• Spain: Spain and UK agree to reopen border between Gibraltar and Spain (closed 1969)
• Sweden: Change in royal succession to favor older sister over younger brother
• Switzerland: Swiss tunnel opens after 11 years of construction
• Yugoslavia: President (Marshal) Josip Broz Tito dies - demands for independence increase

Middle East

• Afghanistan: Soviet invasion
• Iran: Iraq invades leading to war to 1988
  Death of Shah of Iran ending Pahlevi dynasty that ruled since 1921
  US attempts to rescue hostages (Operation Eagle Claw) but helicopters crash and disaster – Ayatollah Khomeini threatens to kill if more attempts tried
  Iran grants women right to vote but women protest Islamic dress code
  Islamic revolution led by Shiite Muslims
• Iraq: Oil terminals damaged by Iranian attacks
• Israel: "Jesus Family Tomb" found
  Water shaft excavated
• Pakistan: Agha Mohammed Tahha Khan dies
• Turkey: Near anarchy until military coup

Pacific

• Australia: Aboriginie girls injected with Depo-Provera for contraception without knowledge to control black birth rates
  Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from Ayers Rock reportedly taken by a dingo
• Vanatu: Formerly New Hebrides in S Pacific gains independence after British and French rule

President:

Pres: James E. "Jimmy" Carter
Pres: Ronald Reagan elected

General

• Archaeology: Gary Jennings publishes guide to reading ancient Aztec pictographs
• Art: Jasper johns paints
  Police charge director Michael Bogdanow with indecency when in "The Romans in Britain" he shows simulated homosexual rape on stage
• Crime: Joseph Paul Franklin US serial killer and racist killed 20 and in 1978 tried to kill Larry Flynt
  Weather Underground activist Bernardine Dohrn turns self in
• Entertainment: Rap Music emerges
  "42nd Street" debuts on Broadway
  Richard Prior badly burned freebasing cocaine
  "Who shot JR" on Dallas becomes national obsession
  Dr. Ruth Westheimber (Karola Ruth Siegel) debuts "Sexually Speaking" radio program
  Bravo Network debuts
  Writers: Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Robert Ludlum
• Environment: Lead paint banned in US
  Superfund (CERLA) created to clean up hazardous sites
• Finance: Banking deregulation in US aims to help consumers but banks raise rates
  US bankruptcy rates rise
  George HW Bush calls Reagan plan "voodoo economics" but later drops opposition
  Gas prices in US have doubled in last two years
• Food: "Scarsdale Diet" creator shot
  Coke changes some sucrose to high-fructose corn syrup – many sweet foods follow suit
  Chicken McNuggets debut
• Law: US Supreme Court upholds Hyde Amendment of 1976 supporting abortion rights
  Illegal to post 10 Commandments in classrooms in US
  Supreme Court upholds quotas and reverse discrimination
  Supreme Court decides manmade life may be patented
  Court rules that public has a right to trials and newsrooms protected from searches
• Medicine: FDA prohibits use of prison inmates in pharmaceutical trials
  Hepatitis B vaccines in Los Angeles and San Francisco
  First AIDS in San Francisco
  New England Journal of Medicine confirms that some obese are more fuel efficient
• Military: Leukemia found among military personnel who participated in 1957's Operation Plumbbob
  Carter tries to extend draft to women - military and Congress overrule
• News: Ted Turner's CNN makes first broadcast
  Ted Koppel and "Nightline" debuts
• Politics: Carter Doctrine announced
  US mission to free Iranian hostages fails
  US protests Afghan invasion by Soviets
  Republicans sweep elections in US
  US Department of Education begins
• Religion: Rev. Jerry Falwell campaigns against equal rights amendment
• Science: Cosmos by Sagan begins broadcasting
  Voyager I explored Saturn
  Universities allowed to patent research
• Sports: "Miracle on Ice" Hockey victory of US over USSR
  Rollerblade Inc. founded patenting in-line skates
  US boycotts summer Olympics in Moscow
• Technology: Introduction of Sony Walkman
  Personal computers available
  start of "Silicon Revolution" as computers become widely used
  US Solar Maximum Mission launched but doesn’t work until repaired in 1984
  IBM achieves 91% accuracy in voice recognition
  WordPerfect debuts
  Hewlett-Packard introduces first laser printer at $100,000 and the size of a desk
• Transportation: Chrysler bailout
  American railroads deregulated
• Weather: US heat wave kills between 1250 and 10000

East

• Massachusettss: Boston Marathon runner cheats by riding subway
• New Jersey: Mafioso Angelo Bruno assassinated in Atlantic City
• New York: Love Canal evacuated after EPA reports chromosomal damage in 36 residents
  Closure of Studio 54 in New York after drug-hammered owner mentions money and IRS raids club
  Fire at Stouffer Inn kills 26
  John Lennon shot
  End of Genovese crime family trial in NY with 10-year sentence
  Water leak in nuclear reactor plant forces shutdown

Midwest

• General: Ohio Valley drought
• Missouri: James Polley has head trapped in Fire in the Hole ride in Branson and dies
  Times Beach destroyed when man spraying roads with oil to control dust mixes two tainted batches laced with dioxins – town near Eureka later condemned
• Ohio: Cincinnati television hostages – just terrorist James Hoskins dies by suicide

South

• Florida: Biscayne Bay National Park created
  Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay collapses when freighter hits it killing 35
  Miami riots after police acquitted in beating
• Georgia: Murder spree of black Atlanta children
• Kentucky: Harlan Sanders founder of KFC dies
• Louisiana: Delcambre salt mine disaster - oil rig drilling hit mine and water flows into hole – reversal of water flow patterns
  Boats and trees sucked into hole at Lake Peigneur

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Mount McKinley National Park renamed Denali
• California: Six earthquakes
  Channel Islands named National Park
  Crystal Cathedral completed
  Richard Chase the "Vampire of Sacramento" kills himself on San Quentin death row
  Mothers Against Drunk Driving founded in California (MADD)
  Rattlesnake placed in mailbox of lawyer suing the Syanon drug rehab program (cult)
  Norco bank shootout
• New Mexico: 36 hour riot in NM State Pen. – 33 die
  Very Large Array used for astronomy completed
• Nevada: Fire at the Vegas MGM Grand kills four
  Workers in Las Vegas hospital suspended for betting on patient deaths
• Utah: WordPerfect debuts from Provo
• Washington: Mount St. Helens erupts killing 57

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 4,639,822

Temples: 19

18. Tokyo Japan
19. Seattle Washington

Other

• Consolidated meeting schedule announced
• 150th anniversary (sesquicentennial)
• Seven temples announced
• Peter Whitmer farmhouse restored - broadcast via satellite - first time
• Reagan visits Utah on political visit – Richard B. Wirthlin works closely with Reagan as pollster
• Seventy reorganized to help with departments of Church
• Missionary work begins in haiti and belize
• Last of large area conferences in Far East