2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 91

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 58
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 54

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 31
Sandra LaNae Lowe 30
Debra Eileen Lowe 24
Michelle Ann Lowe 22
Lori Ellen Lowe 20

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 10
Jeremy Scott Atwood 6

General

Population: 5.86 Billion

• Environment: Kyoto Protocol convention
• Science: Mars Pathfinder lands and Sojourner sends pictures to Earth from Mars
  Antimatter fountain found at core of Milky Way
  Dolly the sheep cloned
  Hale Bopp comet
  International Cassini probe lauched
  Lunar Prospector launched
  International Space Station agreement
• Deaths: Mother Theresa, Princess Diana, Gianni Versache, Jacques Cousteau, Deng Xiaoping, John Denver, Allen Ginsberg, Jimmy Stewart, William S Burroughs US writer, US author James A Michener, cancer researcher Dr. Charles B Huggins,

Africa

• Congo: Zaire returns to name Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Mobutu deposed after 32 year rule
• Eritrea: Flood
• Mauritania: Locusts
• Somalia: Flood

Americas

• Lesser Antilles: Volcano
• Mexico: Hurricane
  End of two years of eruptions of Popocatepetl
  Snow falls on Guadalajara for the first time since 1881

Asia

• General: Death of Deng Ziaoping
• Bangladesh: Cyclone
• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge holds trial of leader Pol Pot
• China: Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule
• Hong Kong: Return to Chinese rule
  "Bird Flu" outbreak
• India: Mother Theresa dies
  Earthquake and flood
• Indonesia: Ahmad Suradji serial killer in Indonesia arrested after father tells him in a dream to kill 70 women and drink their saliva
• Vietnam: Typhoon

Europe

• General: NATO offers membership to Hungary, Poland, and Czech Republic
  NATO and Russia sign treaty on cooperation and mutual security
  Agreement with US Great Britain and France to freeze Nazi gold
  European Union plans to admit six nations
• Great Britain: Labor party takes power
  National mourning for Princess Diana
  Scottish scientists clone Dolly
  Lease on Hong Kong expires
  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone published - 1998 in the United States
• France: England's Princess Diana dies in car crash
  Socialsts gain control
• Italy: Earthquake
• Poland: Flood
• Spain: Flood
• Switzerland: Plan for payment to aging Holocaust victims

Middle East

• Israel: Hebron agreement signed - Israel gives up part of West Bank city of Hebron

Pacific

• Australia: Fire
  Landslide and avalanche
• New Guinea: Drought and freeze
• New Zealand: Jenny Shipley becomes Prime Minister

President:

Pres: William J. Clinton starts second term

General

• Business: Private company launches first commercial spy satellite
• Crime: OJ Simpson found liable of deaths in civil suit
• Culture: Proclamation of National Family Week - Texas George W. Bush responsible
• Entertainment: "The Lion King" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" released on Broadway
  Television ratings system debuts
  Ellen DeGeneres becomes first openly gay woman to have her own TV show
  boy born to Michael Jackson
• Food: Oreo certified kosher
• Finance: Balanced budget agreement reached
• Medicine: Researchers give 26 veterans at a veterans hospital the chemical Yohimbine to induce post-tramatic stress
• Politics: Clinton exercises new line-item veto
• Science: Pathfinder mission to mars
  US shuttle joins Russian space station

East

• New York: Two convicted in Trade Center bombing

Midwest

• Michigan: Ice causes crash of Conair Flight 3272 over Ida
• Ohio: University of Cincinnati and NIMH researchers give 16 shozophrenics amphetamines to induce psychosis
• Oklahoma: Timothy McVeigh convicted of Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing

South

• Kentucky: Waters rise and floodgates had to be shut along Ohio River
• Louisiana: Ice storm - baby boom nine months later
• Texas: Tornado in Jarrell
  Ice storm

West and Pacific

• California: Heaven's Gate members commit mass suicide
  US Appeals COurt upholds ban on affirmative action
• Colorado: Major storm cripples city
• Utah: Light rail construction begins (Traxx)
  Jazz basketball makes it to finals of NBA

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 10,071,783

Temples: 51

50. St. Louis Missouri
51. Vernal, Utah

Other

• Three new quorums of 70s announced: 3,4,5
• Smaller temples announced
• Church reaches 10 million members
• Former President Bush 41 writes to Elder Maxwell regarding his leukemia
• Pioneer sesquicentennial celebrated
• President Hinckley tours Mexico, Pacific Islands, South America
• Commemorative wagon train enters Utah and is addressed by President England
• 100th stake in pacific area created
• 100,000th member in Africa baptized - doubling in six years
• Chile becomes fourth nation to have over 100 stakes
• Unification of teaching materials for Relief Society and Melchizedek Priestood classes