2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 94

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 61
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 57

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 34
Sandra LaNae Lowe 33
Debra Eileen Lowe 27
Michelle Ann Lowe 25
Lori Ellen Lowe 23

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 13
Jeremy Scott Atwood 9

General

Population: 6.09 Billion

• Politics: UN sets agenda for new millennium at NY meeting
• Science: DNA sequencing completed - "working draft"
  International space station
  Common ancestor for humans suggested based on Y chromosome studies estimated 150,000 years ago (see 1987)
  McBearty and Brooks show evidence that modern thought and culture is older than the 40kya suggestion
  NEAR spacecraft orbits asteroid
• Technology: "I love you" virus
• Deaths: Charles Schultz, Steve Allen, Hafez al-Assad of Syria, Victor Borge, Mel Carnahan US politician, Alec Guinness, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Matthau, Keizo Obuchi of Japan, Tito Puente, Leah Rabin, Charles Schulz, Pierre Trudeau of Canada

Africa

• General: Cyclone Leon-Eline strikes Central Africa

Americas

• Canada: F3 tornado kills 11 in Alberta
• Central America: Dengue Fever outbreak
• Cuba: young boy Elian Gonzales taken back to Cuba after immigration raid
• Mexico: Vincente Fox becomes president and end of single party

Asia

• China: Writer Gao Xingjian wins Nobel Prize
• Indonesia: FOrmer president Suharto arrested for abuse of power
• Korea: North and South sign peace accord

Europe

• General: Mad Cow Disease outbreak
• Austria: Far-right Freedom Party started
• France: Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris
• Great Britain: Concorde grounded
  Northern Ireland given joint control from British and North Irish parliaments
  Physician Harold Frederick Shipman charged with killing 250 and commits suicide four years later
• Russia: Submarine sinks
• Yugoslavia: Milosevic ousted in nationwide uprising and Kostunica sworn in

Middle East

• Afghanistan: US gives $245 million in aid
• Iran: Reformists win control of government
• Israel: Palestinians and Israelis clash after Sharon visits holy site
• Yemen: terrorists kill US sailors aboard the Cole naval destroyer

Pacific

• Australia: Sydney hosts Olympics
• New Guinea: Quake

President:

Pres: William J. Clinton
Pres: George W. Bush elected over Albert Gore

General

• Culture: Start of reality tv
  Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine debuts
  Friends stars get $750,000 per episode
  Breakup of Elen DeGeneres and girlfriend Anne Heche
• Finance: Stock market plunges signaling economic slowdown
  Dow reaches “Clinton bull” high of 11723
• Medicine: abortion pill RU-486 wins US approval
• Politics: Highly disputed election results when Gore wins popular vote, but Bush the electoral vote
• Religion: Clinton helps sign legislation banning discrimination against Churches in zoning laws
• Technology: America Online buys Time Warner – also serves to validate the Internet
  Stephen King releases all e-book
  Microsoft found guilty of monopoly

East

Midwest

• Ohio: F4 tornado hits Xenia
  State motto "With God, all things are possible" ruled unconstitutional
• Wisconsin: Tornado forms over Milwaukee airport

South

• Mississippi: Charges filed in 1963 church bombing

West and Pacific

• California: Lockheed Martin pays 100 people $1000 to eat a dose of perchlorate
• New Mexico: Worst wildfire starts with controlled burn
• Utah: Airline passenger Jonathan Burtan storms cockpit of Southwest Airlines flight to Salt Lake – pinned by eight passengers and dies of asphyxiation

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 11,068, 861

Temples: 102

69. St. Paul Minnesota
70. Kona Hawaii
71. Ciudad Juarez Mexico
72. Hermosillo Mexico
73. Albuquerque New Mexico
74. Oaxaca Mexico
75. Tuxtla Guitierrez Mexico
76. Louisville Kentucky
77. Palmyra New York
78. Fresno California
79. Medford Oregon
80. Memphis Tennessee
81. Reno Nevada
82. Cochabamba Bolivia
83. Tampico Mexico
84. Nashville Tennessee
85. Villahermosa Mexico
86. Montreal Quebec Canada
87. San Jose Costa Rica
88. Fukuoka Japan
89. Adelaide Australia
90. Melbourne Australia
91. Suva Fiji
92. Merida Yucatan Mexico
93. Veracruz Mexico
94. Baton Rouge Louisiana
95. Oklahoma City Oklahoma
96. Caracas Venezuela
97. Houston Texas
98. Birmingham Alabama
99. Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
100. Boston Massachusetts
101. Recife Brazil
102. Porto Alegre Brazil

Other

• First Presidency issues "The Living Christ"
• Conference moves from Tabernacle to Conference Center
• Church reaches 11 million members and more non-English speakers
• Conference Center dedicated
• First hundred temples completed
• Clinton helps sign legislation banning discrimination against churches in zoning laws
• Official recognition of Church in Kazakhstan
• Oldest LDS chapel (Gadfield Elm Chapel in England) rededicated
• 100 millionth Book of Mormon printed, also 100th language