2

Earl Franklin Lowe 68
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 65
Harry Chester Peterson 69
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 69

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 32
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 28

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 5
Sandra LaNae Lowe 4

General

Population: 3.79 Billion

• Business: Levi's traded publicly
• Entertainment: writers include Alixander I Solzhenitsyn (distributed secretly in USSR), Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar – (posth.), John Updike, Pablo Neruda
  Movies "Patton" "Clockwork Orange"
• Finance: "Group of 10" (G10) develop multilateral monetary system at Smithsonian
  "Smithsonian Agreement" makes gold a floating asset and dollar devalued
• Religion: Synod of Catholic bishops reaffirm role of celibacy and agree on definition of Eucharist with Church of England
• Science: First mission to orbit Mars (Mariner 9)
• Deaths: Nikita Khrushchev, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Jim Morrison, Nathan Leopold (and Loeb), Thomas E Dewey, Gilbert M (Bronco Billy) Anderson who acted in "The Great Train Robbery", Louis Armstsrong, William G Wilson of AA fame, James Cash Penney (JCPenney), US golfer Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, WWII hero Audie Murphy

Africa

• Algeria: Government takes control of French oil and gas interests within its borders – promises reparations
• South Africa: Non-voluntary sex change operations on homosexuals
• Uganda: Major General Idi Amin becomes Ugandan strongman
• Zaire: Renamed from Democratic Republic of the Congo to 1997

Americas

• Canada: Canada and China exchange diplomatic envoys
• Haiti: Death of dictator Francois Duvalier
• Peru: Avalanche in Lima

Asia

• Bangladesh: Independence from Pakistan as East Pakistan secedes and changes name
• Cambodia: US planes bomb Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia – fighting in Indoochina spreads to Laos and Cambodia
• China: Admission to UN
  Mao's heir-apparent Lin Piao dies in mysterious air crash after unsuccessful coup
  Mainland China hosts US table tennis and start of US-CHI relations - Henry Kissinger visits China to arrange Nixon visit
• Hong Kong: Typhoon
• India: Cyclone and tidal wave kills 10,000 in Bengal
  Battle of Longewala – Indo Pakistani War results in 120 Indians defeating thousands of Pakistanis
• Japan: Largest ship built
  Self-imposed quota on textile exports announced
• Laos: South Vietnamese troops enter but fail to take Ho Chi Minh trail
• North Vietnam: US bombing
  Britain introduces internment (without trial) following riots
  Flooding as the Red River at Hanoi overflows killing 100,000
• Singapore: British military presence ends
• South Korea: President Chung Hee Park reelected to third term
• South Vietnam: War continues
  Lt. William L Calley found guilty of premeditated murder in Mylai (VIET) massacre
• Taiwan: Taiwan expelled from UN as China joins
  Typhoon

Europe

• Austria: Diplomat Kurt Waldheim chosen UN Secretary General
• East Germany: Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as head of Communists
• Great Britain: Decimal currency introduced
  Violence worsens in North Ireland after Britain institutes restrictive policies
  Anthony Hopkins sought "The Girl from Petrovka" novel in London but found no copies – then noticed a discarded book – that exact one on park bench – see 1973
  Postal strike
  Rolls-Royce Ltd. declares bankruptcy
• Poland: Wladyslaw Gonulka former Communist leader suspended from Party's Central Committee
• Soviet Union: Nikita Khrushchev dies
  US and USSR sign pact against accidental war
  Two probes to Mars
  US and USSR ban nuclear weapons on ocean floor
  Three Russian cosmonauts die when Soyuz 11 leaks when reentering atmosphere
  USSR lands capsule on Mars,
• Switzerland: Women finally get the vote
• West Germany: Chancellor Willy Brandt wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Yugoslavia: Wall lizards moved to new island in Croatia and larger heads and wider diets observed

Middle East

• General: Indo-Pakistan war
• Egypt: United Arab Republic changes name back to Egypt
• Iraq: Mass poisoning in Al Basrah Iraq when Mexican wheat treated with mercury (for seed) stolen and eaten - warning labels only in Spanish and English so at least 459 poisoned but probably 6000 with 100,000 injured
• Pakistan: War with India
• Turkey: Earthquake
• United Arab Emirates: Trucial States renamed UAE

Pacific

• Australia: Cyclone

President:

Pres: Richard Nixon

General

• Crime: Death of paroled conflict Nathan Leopold (and Loeb) (see 1924)
  Charles Manson and three codefendants found guilty
  Weather Underground bombings continue
• Culture: Jesse Jackson founds Operation PUSH for black empowerment
• Entertainment: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice present "Jesus Christ Superstar" on Broadway
  Jerome Irving Rodale dies while being interviewed on Dick Cavett Show
  Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens
  Conceptual art becomes craze
  Fiddler on the Roof becomes longest running Broadway musical to date
  Look magazine folds
  An American Family becomes first reality tv show – son comes out of closet – wife divorces to have career – aired 1973
• Finance: Nixon orders freeze on wages and prices to curb inflation
  US Congress votes to stop funding supersonic flight
  US devalues dollar
• Law: 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18
  Lemon v. Kurtzman revisits separation of church and state
  Federal aid to parochial schools declared unconstitutional
• Medical: Cigarette ads banned on US television
  Publication of Acquired Immunological Deficiency prompts some to believe that US Govt. made AIDS
• Military: US and Soviet Union sign pacts to avoid accidental war
• Politics: First "Pentagon Papers" in NY Times shows government unable to win war
  Tricia Nixon marries Edward Finch Cox
• Religion: "The Jesus Movement" becomes popular religion un US
• Science: Apollo 14 and 15 explore lunar surface
  US satellite Mariner 9 orbits Mars
  U CA Dr. Choh Hao Li synthesizes growth hormone
  US astronomers discover two new galaxies
• Sports: Hank Aaron reaches 600 Home runs
• Technology: Intel and TI introduce the silicon chip
  CAT scanner invented
• Travel: Amtrak begins to operate US passenger railroads

East

• Maryland: Nixon converts Fort Detrick to National Cancer Institute and studies countermeasures for biological research
• New York: Leagalization of offtrack betting
  Five-day uprising in Attica prison leaves 32 prisoners and 10 guards dead

Midwest

South

West and Pacific

• Alaska: US explodes H bomb beneath Alaska
• California: LA quake kills 60 and causes one billion in damage
  Twenty bodies buried in Yorba Linda and Juan Corona accused of murders of 25 males
  Stanford "prison" experiment at psychology building leads to psychological damage and sadism

President

Pres: Joseph Fielding Smith

Membership: 3,090,953

Temples: 13

Other

• Ensign, New Era, and Friend first published limiting Church magazines
• All LDS women enrolled in Relief Society and dues eliminated
• Church membership reaches 3 million
• Area conference held in Manchester England
• DC temple started
• LDS health missionaries called