2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 93

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 60
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 56

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 33
Sandra LaNae Lowe 32
Debra Eileen Lowe 26
Michelle Ann Lowe 24
Lori Ellen Lowe 22

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 12
Jeremy Scott Atwood 8

General

Population: 6.01 Billion

• Entertainment: Start of new Star Wars movies
  nude calendar of Rylstone Women’s Institute
• Fashion: Gucci purchases Yves St. Laurent
• Military: Both Jeane Dixon and Nostradamus predict great war this year
• Politics: Humanist Manifesto 2000 published
• Religion: Jeane Dixon and Nostradamus predict great war coming this year
• Science: Human Genome Project near completion
  First comet sample return mission launched
  start of International Space Station assembly
• Technology: Y2K scare
  Internet users reach 150 million
  Melissa and Chernobyl computer viruses hit large corporations
• Deaths: Stanley Kubrick, Gene Siskel, Joe DiMaggio, Raisa Gorbachev, King Hassan II of Morocco, King Hussein I of Jordan, George C Scott

Africa

• South Africa: Nelson Mandela steps down and Thabo Mbeki takes over

Americas

• Colombia: Earthquake
  Luis Garavito of Colombia confesses to having killed and raped 140 boys – later 172 shown
• Nicaragua: Mudslide in El Tololar
• Venezuela: Vargas mudslide kills over 20,000

Asia

• Indonesia: East Timor votes for independence - massacre of East Timorese begins
• Macao: Last European (Portuguese) colony in Asia reverts to Chinese rule
• Taiwan: Quake

Europe

• Austria: Major Alps avalanche
• France: Avalanche at Montroc kills 12
• Great Britain: Scottish Parliament set up at Edinburgh
  Welsh Assembly set up at Cardiff
• Italy: Woodstock '99 results in near disaster
• Russia: Yeltsin survives impeachment
  Yeltsin takes military action against Dagestan and Chechnya
  Yeltsin retires and is succeeded by Communist Vladimir Putin
  Chechen Republic of Ichkeria returned to Russian control in Second Chechen War - see 1996
• Yugoslavia: NATO airstrikes in Kosovo after Milosevic massacres and deports Albanians, strikes in Belgrade

Middle East

• Pakistan: Kargil War when Pakistan invades India's Kashmir region and intruders massacred
• Turkey: Earthquake kills 17,000 and leaves 600,000 homeless

Pacific

• Australia: Rejection of proposal to become a republic
  Hurricane-force winds ruin boat race

President:

Pres: William J. Clinton

General

• Entertainment: Universal and Polygram records merge
  George Clooney leaves television’s ER
• Fashion: Levi Strauss closes half of US plants
  Wall Street Journal covers thong as fashion statement
• Finance: Dow closes above 10000
• Medicine: US doctors perform first hand transplant
• Politics: Bill Clinton survives congressional impeachment
  John F Kennedy Jr. with wife and sister-in-law die in plane accident
• Religion: Reverend Jerry Falwell outs Teletubby Tinky Winky

East

• Pennsylvania: Doctors at U of PA inject experimental gene therapy into 18 year old that dies four days later

Midwest

• Great Plains: Record chill in June
• Illinois: 22 inches of snow in Chicago leaves 8-foot drifts
• North Dakota: six including professional golfer Payne Stewart die when airplane loses cabin pressure and continues flying until it runs out of fuel
• Oklahoma: Powerful F5 tornado

South

• Florida: Liberty Bell 7 space capsule discovered after 38 years submerged
• Texas?: White supremacist John William King sentenced to death for fatal dragging of a black man

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Avalanche kills 9 Innuit
• Arizona: Downdraft kills hot air balloonists in Phoenix
• California: first annual BattleBots competition held
  Quake
• Colorado: Columbine shootings leave total of 15 dead
• Utah: Tornado in Salt Lake
• Washington: Record snowfall season

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 10,752,984

Temples: 68

54. Anchorage Alaska
55. Colonia Juarez Mexico
56. Madrid Spain
57. Bogota Colombia
58. Guayaquil Ecuador
59. Spokane Washington
60. Columbus Ohio
61. Bismarck North Dakota
62. Columbia South Caroline
63. Detroit Michigan
64. Halifax Nova Scotia
65. Regina Saskatchewan Canada
66. Billings Montana
67. Edmonton Alberta
68. Raleigh North Carolina

Other

• FamilySearch launched
• Tornado does minor damage on Temple Square
• Last Conference in Tabernacle
• Visit by George W. Bush
• Mormon Youth Chorus and Symphony disbanded to form Temple Square Chorale
• Pioneer Cemetery in Winter Quarters deeded to Church
• Surprise announcement of rebuilding of nauvoo Temple
• Two temples (Canada) dedicated on same day