2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 95 died

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 62
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 58

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 35
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 34
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 43
Debra Eileen Lowe 28
Michelle Ann Lowe 26
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 24
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 21

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 14
Jeremy Scott Atwood 10
Michael Evan Johnson born

General

Population: 6.17 Billion

• Culture: Mademoiselle magazine discontinued
• Health: Mad Cow Disease spreads
• Science: US rejects Kyoto warming agreements - Kyoto Protocol rescued when 178 nations reach climate agreement
  Initial Human Genome published
  Defects found in cloned animals
  Carbon fullerenes (Buckyballs) found at Permo-Triassic boundary in China and suggests meteor impact - controversial
  Start of Colony Collapse Disorder (bee disappearing) worldwide
• Sports: Tiger Woods becomes first professional golfer to hold all four major golf championships at the same time
• Deaths: Chet Atkins, heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, Dale Earnhardt, George Harrison, John Lee Hooker, Jack Lemmon, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Robert Ludlum, Carroll O’Connor, Anthony Quinn, Joey Ramone, Isaac Stern, Eudora Welty, Perry Como

Africa

• General: Maasai donate cattle to 9/11 victims
• Congo: President Laurent Kabila assassinated by bodyguard and son Joseph takes over
  Civil war continues
• Kenya: Four found guilty of 1998 bombings of US Embassy
• Nigeria: Cholera outbreak
• South Africa: Cholera outbreak
• Tanzania: Four gound guilty of 1998 bombing of US Embassy

Americas

• Cuba: Hurricane Michelle hits
• El Salvador: Quake
• Peru: Earthquake and tsunami

Asia

• China: Jet collides with US spy plane
• India: Gujarat earthquake on Pakistan border - 20,000 die
  New Delhi reports monkeyman attacks
• Japan: US submarine Greenville sinks Japanese Fishing boat above it
• Nepal: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills entire royal family and is injured in retaliation – dies 4 days later as king – uncle rules after him

Europe

• Germany: Bernd-Jürgen Brandes of Germany voluntarily stabbed and eaten by Armin Meiwes
• Great Britain: Cease fire between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland - IRA dismantles weapons arsenal
• Macedonia: Violence against Albanians
• The Netherlands: Dutch legalize euthanasia
• Yugoslavia: Former president Slobodan Milosevic delivered to UN for trial

Middle East

• Afghanistan: Talibanis blow up Buddha statue
  US invades and oustss Taliban regime - Hamid Karzai serves as interim president
• Israel: Ariel Sharon wins election
  Condemnation of Palestinian Authority - ties severed with Yasir Arafat
  Start of bombing Palestine

Pacific

• Australia: Death of cricket player Donald Bradman

President:

Pres: William J. Clinton
Pres: George W. Bush inaugurated

General

• Crime: Javed Iqbal the child killer and rapist – strangled in prison
• Culture: Apple releases the iPod
  "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" movie release starts franchise
  Reality TV eclipses comedies for top television
• Finance: Bankrupt Exodus Communications shares jump 59000 percent when rogue trader accidentally bids $100 per share
  Bill Clinton pardons Marc Rich – billionaire fugitive financier
  Bush tax cuts
  Dow market slump, then terrorist attack closes market for four days- then falls 685 points on opening
  Budged surplus dwindles
• Military: U.S. war against Afghanistan
  FBI agent Robert Hanssen charged with spying for Russia
• Politics: Patriot Act goes into law
  Senate shifts when Jim Jeffords of Vermont changes from Republican to Independent – Democrat majority
• Science: National Academy of Sciences announce that global warming is on the rise
  President Bush halts creation of embryos to harvest stem cells
• Terror: F9/11 attacks, anthrax-laced letters in US government and media
• Weather: Lack of contrails following September 11 causes two-degree rise in daytime temps

East

• D.C.: 9/11 plane crashes into side of Pentagon
• New York: September 11th attacks on World Trade Center - 3000 die
  "The Producers" released on Broadway
  6 Year old Michael Colombini kille when oxygen tank pulled into MRI
• Pennsylvania: 9/11 plane crashes in field

Midwest

• Nebraska: Strong tornadoes
• Ohio: Race riots in CIncinnati when unarmed black man shot by white police
• Oklahoma: Strong tornadoes
  Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed

South

• Florida: Unusual dust devil in April
• Kentucky: Artificial heart implanted
• Texas: Homeless man Gregory Biggs hit by car and torso lodges in windshield – woman who hit him visits him several times and apologises – Biggs dies of injuries hours later

West and Pacific

• California: Rolling blackouts
• Washington: Earthquake in Olympia region
  Green River Murderer identified as Gary Ridgway after killing at least 48 – mostly prostitutes

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 11,394,522

Temples: 107

103. Montevideo Uruguay
104. Winter Quarters Nebraska
105. Guadalajara Mexico
106. Perth Australia
107. Columbia River Washington

Other

• Perpetual Education Fund announced
• Rick's College becomes BYU Idaho
• Tabernacle Choir sings at Bush's inauguration
• Religious leaders meet with Bush following 9-11 Tragedy
• Bush appoints many LDS people to Cabinet
• Missionaries return to Serbia after 32-month absence
• First meetinghouses in Sri Lanka, Czech Republic, Ukraine
• Sea Trek commemoration voyage taken
• Term "Mormon Church" discouraged