2

Earl Franklin Lowe 65
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 62
Harry Chester Peterson 66
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 66

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 29
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 25

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 2
Sandra LaNae Lowe 1
Mark Thomas Lowe born and died

General

Population: 3.56 Billion

• General: Worldwide student unrest
• Entertainment: Writers include John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, Francoise Sagan, Gore Vidal, Neil Simon
  Artist R Buckminster Fuller awarded Gold Medal by Royal Institute of British Architects
  Mickey Mouse celebrates 40th birthday
  Film includes "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Kubrick)
  Popular songs include "Hey Jude" and "Mrs. Robinson"
• Environment: Great concerns over global cooling
• Fashion: Calvin Klein begins production
  Ralph Lauren creates line of menswear
• Medicine: Hong Kong Flu pandemic kills 750,000 worldwide
  "Second Ten Years of the World Health Organization" published
• Religion: Pope Paul VI issues papal encyclical Humanae Vitae against birth control
• Science: Third heart transplant
  Pulsars discovered
• Travel: First C-5 flight
• Deaths: Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. Upton Sinclair, Helen Keller, John Steinbeck, Harold Gray creator of comic "Little Orphan Annie", R Dirks creator of "Katzenjammer Kids", Cosmonaut Yuri A Gagarin, German chemist Otto Hahn, Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic, Austrian Lise Meitner, Marcel Duchamp

Africa

• Egypt: Aswan Dam completed
• Equatorial Guinea: Rio Muni (Part of Spanish Guinea) renamed Equatorial Guinea
• Mauritius: Becomes independent member of British Commonwealth
• Nigeria: Famine
  Civil war continues with Biafra
• Rhodesia: Talks with Britain fail
• Swaziland: Becomes independent member of British Commonwealth

Americas

• General: Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) formed
• Brazil: Queen Elizabeth visit
• Canada: Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn in as Prime Minister
• Chile: Queen Elizabeth visit
• Costa Rica: Arenal erupts

Asia

Princess Tou Wan and husband found wrapped in jade suits for burial
• Cambodia: Sihanouk permist US troops to pursue Viet Cong within borders
• India: Landslides in Bihar and West Bengal kill 1000
  Flood
• Japan: Becomes second-largest economy in world
• North Korea: Military seizes USS Pueblo and 83 crew members in Sea of Japan
• North Vietnam: VC besieges US marines at Khe Sanh for 77 days
  Tet offensive

Europe

• Czechoslovakia: "Prague spring" revolt ends with Warsaw Pact invasion
  Over 27k Czech refugees enter Austria
  Soviets invade Czechoslovakia to crush liberalism of secretary Alexander Dubcek
  Antonin Novotny forced to resign as President of Czechoslivakia – General Ludwik Svoboda rules
• France: Students riot in Paris and almost bring down the government
  Peace talks over Vietnam
  De Gaulle visits Romania and asks France to give him vote of confidence
• Great Britain: Unrest
  Queen Elizabeth II invests Prince Charles with Order of the Garter
  North Ireland - Ulster Civil Rights Campaign leads to fighting between Catholics and Protestants
  Oliver Knussen age 15 conducts London Symphony Orchestra
  "Wind of the Century" in Scotland
  Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns – Michael Stewart serves
  10 year old Mary Bell and her neighbor Norma Bell (no relation) kill neighborhood children – Mary daughter of thief and bondage prostitiute who was drugged regularly and sexually abused by mother's johns – skinned boys genitals and strangled – released from boys prison - then woman's prison age 19 1977 escaped to get pregnant, paroled 1980 23 as reformed
  \ British government restricts immigration from India Pakistan and W Indies
• Greece: Columns of Parthenon in Athens threaten to collapse due to weathering and erosion
• Ireland: Civil Rights campaign leads to violence
  First sighting of Monster of Lough Nahooin
• Italy: Death of Padre Pio of Italy – a monk that appeared in two places at once in WWI to prevent the suicide of a General – clairvoyant, stigmatic...
• Norway: King Olav V of Norway visits USA
• Poland: Protests in Warsaw against government intervention in cultural affairs
• Portugal: Antonio Salazar retires after holding office since 1932 – Marcello Caetano presides as near dictator
• Soviet Union: Two unmanned Soviet satellites find each other by radar while in orbit
  Yuri Gagarian dies in car accident
  Yehuda Leib Levin chief Rabbi of Moscow visits New York
• West Germany: Student unrest
• Yugoslavia: Tito shows Czechoslovakian support

Middle East

• Iran: Iran earthquake kills 12,000
• Iraq: Ba'ath party leader Saddam Hussein takes power
• Israel: Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meets Nixon in New York
  Benjamin Masar discovers foundations of the Temple of Herod
  Talks between Israeli Prime Minister Eshkol and US President Johnson
  Israel and UAR agree to exchange prisoners of war

Pacific

• Nauru: Independent member of British Commonwealth

President:

Pres: Lindon B. Johnson
Pres: Richard Nixon elected over Hubert Humphrey on promise of ending Vietnam involvement

General

• Assassinations: Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy killed
• Crime: Valerie Solanas of S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) and former actress shot Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol's studio
  Race riots in large US cities
  Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers arrested and starts becoming fugitive
  Scotland Yard arrests James Earl Ray in London – extradited to US
• Culture: War protests and draft cards burned
  Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle S Onassis
  Julie Nixon (dau of Richard) weds Dwight Eisenhower (grandson of)
• Entertainment: "Hair" debuts on Broadway
  Smothers Brothers debuts on TV
  Laugh-In becomes hottest show on TV
  James Earl Jones wins a Tony
• Fashion: "midi" dresses fail to replace minis
• Finance: Attempt to reaffix dollar to gold standard fails
  US tries to stop gold outflow and revamp Bretton Woods agreement
• Law: Epperson V. Arkansas re-visits separation of church and state
• Military: US explodes underground H bomb
• News: 60 Minutes debuts
• Politics: Shirley Chisholm first black woman elected to congress
  President Johnson announces he will not try for second term
• Science: Apollo 7 launched
  Intelsat 3A communication satellite launched
  Apollo 9 launched to orbit the moon
  US spacecraft Surveyor 7 lands on the moon
• Sports: Peggy Fleming wins only US gold at Winter Olympics
  Lee Trevino wins US Open Golf
  Arthur Ashe wins U.S. Open
• Deaths: Norman Thomas a founded of ACLU and Socialist candidate for president

East

• New York: Continental Baths open as gay bathhouse
  Dada and Surrealism exhibition at MOMA
  Terence J Cooke succeeds Francis Spellman as Catholic Archbishop
  Jimi Hendrix plays NY Philharmonic Hall

Midwest

• Illinois: Riots and police brutality and bullying mark Democratic convention in Chicago – Hubert H Humphrey wins nomination
• Iowa: Destructive tornado
• Minnesota: F5 tornado near Tracy
• Missouri: Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated

South

• Tennessee: Dr. King killed at Lorraine Hotel - hangout for Stax records musicians
• Texas: Planned Parenthood experiment with Mexican-Americans giving placebos or lower doses instead of meds
  Severe thunderstorm downs plane near Dawson

West and Pacific

• California: Robert F Kennedy assassinated in LA and Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan convicted of crime
• Hawaii: 150-foot wave hits
• Utah: Reagan visits for politics

President

Pres: David O. McKay

Membership: 2,684,073

Temples: 13

Other

• Belle Spafford becomes president of National Council of Women
• Nixon beats George Romney for GOP candidacy
• Church starts study programs in Israel
• Missionary work begins in Thailand
• Official recognition in Spain - missionaries arrive next year