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Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 83

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 50
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 46

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Atwood) 23
Md: Floyd Scott Atwood
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Jensen) 22
Md: Peter Anthony Jensen 21
Debra Eileen Lowe 16
Michelle Ann Lowe 14
Lori Ellen Lowe 12

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 2

General

Population: 5.20 Billion

• Environment: CFCs banned for destroying ozone
• Politics: End of Cold War
• Religion: Fatwa against Salmon Rushdie author of The Satanic Verses
• Science: Human gene transfer developed
  Voyager 2 speeds past Neptune and leaves main solar system - discovers storm and moons of Neptune
  Space probes Magellan and Galileo launched
  Gingerich finds fossilized whale with legs
  
• Technology: First WWW server and browser developen by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN
  Term "virtual reality" coined by Jaron Lanier
  First indexing of Internet attempted
• Deaths: Irving Berlin age 101, Salvador Dali, French-Irish author Samuel Beckett, Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Ferdinand Marcos, Laurence Olivier, Nicolae Ceausescu, actor Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo), Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri Gomez (La Pasionaria), Baseball manager Billy Martin, Russian scientist Andrei Sakharov, Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing, American writer and critic Robert Penn Warren,

Africa

• General: Libya and Chad end 25 year old war
• Libya: US splanes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters of Mediterranean
• Namibia: First free elections held
• Senegambia: Re-splits back to Senegal and Gambia (Sudan area)
• South Africa: F.W. De Clerk elected over Botha and works to remove apartheid
  End of forced sex-change operations on homosexuals

Americas

• General: US ends support of Contras in Central America
• Argentina: Carlos Menem introduces reform
• Canada: Quake in Quebec
  Geomagnetic storm plunges Montreal into darkness
• Colombia: Daniel Barbosa of Colombia and later Ecuasor kills 71 girls and is arrested
• Panama: US Troops invade Panama to capture General Manuel Noriega

Asia

• General: End of Cambodian-Vietnamese War
• Bangladesh: Deadliest tornado hits Bangladesh killing 1300
• Burma: Renamed Myanmar - name not recognized by many countries
• China: Pro-democracy movement crushed at Tianamen Square killing over five thousand
  Deng Xiaoping resigns from China’s leadership
  Relations reestablished with Soviet Union
• Japan: Economy peaks as it becomes largest foreign aid donor and supplier of capital
• Kampuchea: Name changed back to Cambodia

Europe

• Azerbaijan and Armenia: Ethnic conflict
• Bulgaria: Regime falls
• Czechoslovakia: Regime falls as parliament ends Communist's dominant role
• East Germany: Berlin Wall falls
  Communist regime falls
• Great Britain: England reinstitutes Poll tax over protests
• Hungary: Regime change
• Poland: Solidarity legalized as regime falls - First partially free election
• Romania: Regime falls in revolution - Ceauscescu and wife killed
• Soviet Union: Pro-reform individuals elected
  President Gorbachev visits Pope in Rome
  Gorbachev named Soviet President
  Estonia Lithuania and other regions start to revolt

Middle East

• Afghanistan: USSR withdraws from fighting
• Iran: Ayatollah Khomeini declares Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” offensive and declares fatwah
  Death of Ayatollah Khomeini
• Israel: Premier Yitzhak Shamir opposes creation of Palestinian state
• Pakistan: Renoining with commonwealth

Pacific

• Australia: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum initiated
  Earthquake

President:

Pres: Ronald Reagan
Pres: George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st President

General

• Business: Coke and Pepsi pit rock stars against each other in commercials
  Aunt Jemima spokescharacter updated
• Crime: Ted Bundy executed
  Oliver North convicted in Iran-Contra affair
• Entertainment: Oprah Winfrey becomes first black woman to own television and production companies
  Roseanne dethrones The Cosby Show
• Military: US invades Panama deposing Manuel Noriega
• Politics: Gen. Colin Powell serves as Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff - first American of African descent

East

• Maryland: Measles outbreak
• New York: David Dinkins becomes first black mayor of New York City
• Virginia: Ebola Reston outbreak

Midwest

• Kansas: Wichita Falls (May be Texas) temperatures rise from 8 degrees to 95 degrees in six days
• Missouri: Record cold around Kansas City
• North Dakota: Tioga records windchill of -90 degrees Fahrenheit

South

• Tennessee: Freezing rain around Memphis

West and Pacific

• California: Bay Area (Loma Prieta or World Series) Quake registers 7.1
• Alaska: Exxon Valdez crashes, spilling 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound

President

Pres: Ezra Taft Benson

Membership: 7,308,444

Temples: 43

42. Portland Oregon
43. Las Vegas Nevada

Other

• Church membership reaches 7 million
• Budget for congregations equalized and budgets taken from tithes alone
• Fixed missionary budgets created through the church
• 100th Stake in Mexico created
• Second Quorum of the 70 created
• BYU Jerusalem Center dedicated
• Rennovated Carthage jail dedicated
• First LDS meetinghouse in Hungary, Poland
• LDS Missionaries banned from Ghana for a year
• Choir celebrates sixty years of broadcasts and Reagan sends congratulations
• Tabernacle Choir performs at Inauguration
• President Benson honored with Presidential Citizens Medal
• Many Mormons continue in Bush positions of leadership
• Jon M Huntsman Jr. appointed youngest ambassador in a century
• President Benson gives landmark discussion on pride
• Two missionaries murdered in Bolivia
• El Salvador reaches self-sufficiency on full-time missionaries
• Eric Lomax meets and forgives Japanese WWII torturer Takashi Nagase