2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 92

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 59
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 55

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 32
Sandra LaNae Lowe 31
Debra Eileen Lowe 25
Michelle Ann Lowe 23
Lori Ellen Lowe 21

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 11
Jeremy Scott Atwood 7

General

Population: 5.94 Billion

• Entertainment: Titanic shatters records
• Medicine: Pfizer introduces Viagra
• Science: Genome of C. elegans sequenced
  Yogi Totsuka determines nutrinos have mass
  Hubble Space Telescope sends image of planet outside of our system
  Temperature changes in late Precambrian suggested as spur for evolution
  Astronomers detect giant explosion in space
  The Athena probe finds frozen water on the moon
  Crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour connects first two modules of international space station
• Technology: Google founded
  Microsoft sued for stifling innovation
  Allen Burgess comes up with Y2K bug breakthrough
• Deaths: Frank Sinatra, Gene Autry, Sonny Bono, Florence Griffith Joyner, Akira Kurosawa, Octavio Paz Mexican writer, Junior Wells blues vocalist

Africa

• Congo: Basanga football team killed when field struck by lightning – all opposing team lives
  Second Congo War begins (Coltan War) - Deadliest war following WWII with between 3 and 8 million dead
• Egypt: Restoration of the Great Sphinx of Giza completed
• Kenya: Flooding
  US embassy bombed
• Nigeria: Dictator Sani Abacha dies from heart attack caused by ingestion of large quantities of Viagra
• Sudan: US cruise missiles hit base in retalliation for embassy bombings - reported to ba aspirin plant
• Tanzania: US embassy bombed

Americas

• General: Nicaragua and Honduras hit with Hurricane Mitch killing 9000
  Freak cold current in Gulf of Mexico kills fish as canyon water upwells
• Brazil: Amazon fire
• Canada: Montreal ice storm
• Chile: Former dictator Augusto Pinochet arrested in London
• Colombia: Pedro López "The Monster of the Andes" arrested for killing at least 300 in Ecuador and Colombia
• Peru: Flooding

Asia

• Bangladesh: Flooding
• China: Earthquake
• India: Nuclear tests
  Heat wave kills over 2500
• Indonesia: Dictator Suharto steps down
• Pakistan: Nuclear tests

Europe

• General: Europeans agree on cingle currency and the Euro is created
• Great Britain: Northern Ireland starts sharing power between Catholics and Protestants and tentative peace ensues - Good Friday
• Italy: Pietro Pacciani the monster of Florence dies after arrest for killing eight couples
• Russia: Verge of financial collapse
• Yugoslavia: Serbs battle Albanians in Kosovo – NATO on verge of air strikes – settlement with ruler Milosevic

Middle East

• General: Wye Mills Agreement between Netanyahu of Israel and Palestine representative Arafat moves peace talks forward
• Afghanistan: US cruise missiles hit bases in Afghanistan as regalliation for bombed bases in Africa
  Earthquake
• Iraq: Cease of cooperation with UN arms inspectors – US orders air strikes

Pacific

• Australia: Flooding
  Tom and Eileen Lonergan stranded off Great Barrier Reef when scuba boat fails to do headcount – bodies never recovered
• Papua New Guinea: Quake and tsunami

President:

Pres: William J. Clinton

General

• Crime: Unabomber sentenced to four life terms
• Entertainment: last episode of Seinfeld
• Finance: President outlines first balanced budget in 30 years
• Medicine: Dow Corning agrees on settlement for silicon breast implants
  HIV/AIDS shown more prominent among African-Americans
• Politics: Bill Clinton survives congressional impeachment after sex scandal with intern Monica Lewinsky
• Science: John Glenn boards space shuttle Discovery age 77
  Mars Orbiter burns in atmosphere when employee mixes up metric and standard measurements
• Sports: Michael Jordan leads Bulls to sixth NBA Championship

East

Midwest

• Ohio: Tornado strikes nuclear plant with minimal damage
• Oklahoma: Life sentence for Terry Nichols regarding Federal Building bombing

South

• Florida: Sanford tornadoes<
  Wildfires near Daytona cancel NASCAR race/li>
• Georgia: Gainesville deady tornadoes

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Temperature at Barrow reaches 51 degrees
• Utah: Utah Jazz basketball at zenith - Finalists defeated only by Chicago Bulls
  George W. Bush and Mike Leavitt (former governor) tour Israel together
• Wyoming: Gay student Matthew Shepaard beated to death - two arrested

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 10,354,241

Temples: 54

53. Preston England
54. Monticello UT

Other

• Announcement of 100-temple goal
• Smaller temples increase
• President Hinckley tours Africa (first), Mexico
• Joseph Smith Sr. log home replica dedicated
• Grandin Building in Palmyra dedicated
• Nicaragua and Honduras sent supplies after Hurricane Mitch and President Hinckley tours