2

Earl Franklin Lowe 71 died
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 68
Harry Chester Peterson 72
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 72

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 35
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 31

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Peggy Lynette Lowe 8
Sandra LaNae Lowe 7
Debra Eileen Lowe 1

General

Population: 4.02 Billion

• Archaeology: Donald C. Johanson discovers "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis) homonid
• Entertainment: First wave of punk rock begins as The Ramones form
  Writers: Solzhenitsyn writes The Gulag Archipelago against Soviets, Peter Benchley (Jaws), Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  Pulitzer Prizes not awarded this year
• Fashion: Giorgio Armani begins production and popularizes Italian suits
• Science: Skylab 3 sets space record
  USSR space probe detects larger than expected amount of water vapor on Mars,
• Deaths: Samuel Goldwyn, Agnes Moorehead, Mexican muralist Davis A Siqueiros, Jack Benny, Tex Ritter, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Walter Lippmann, US Army General Creighton W Abrams, Charles A Lindbergh, German writer Erich Kastner, Sir James Chadwick – discoverer of neutrons, Dizzy Dean (baseball),

Africa

• General: Drought causes famine
• Angola: Independence
• Egypt: Engineers start clearing Suez canal, which was abandoned in 1967
• Ethiopia: Marxists oust emperor Haile Selassie
• Guinea-Bissau: Independence from Portugal
• Mali: End of famine
• Mozambique: Independence

Americas

Huancavelica landslide (Americas)
• Argentina: Death of Juan Peron – wife Maria Estella presides
• Brazil: 170 die as fire sweeps through Sao Paolo high-rise bank
  Floods
• Canada: Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins reelection
• Guinea: Jim Jones starts building Jonestown
• Grenada: Gains independence as member of Commonwealth
• Honduras: Hurricane

Asia

• Bangladesh: Floods kill over 2500
• China: Nuclear weapons tested
  Tomb of Shi Huangdi found
• India: Nuclear weapons tested
  Smallpox - last major outbreak kills 10-20,000
  Earthquake in Kashmir
• Japan: Energy crisis leads to economic problems

Europe

• General: Storm in English Channel shows 50 foot waves and kills 35 saliors
• Cyprus: Greek-led Cypriot rebels overthrow the government – archbishop Makarios flees – Turkish forces invade island and control much of Cyprus,
• East Germany: US and E Germany establish formal relations
• France: Turkish jetliner crashes near Paris killing 345
• Great Britain: British Prime Minister Edward Heath resigns –Harold Wilson returns as Prime Minister
  Chunnel attempt abandoned
  Dr. Frederick Donald Coggan Archbishop of York named Archbishop of Canterbury to succeed Reverend Michael Ramsey
  Health food guru Basil Brown drank self to death with carrot juice
  Terrorism in Northern Ireland and England – Tower of London and Parliament bombed
• Greece: Conflict with Turks in Cyprus
  Military government resigns – former premier Constantine Caramanlis returns from exile to become premier
• Hungary: Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty the exiled cardinal removed by Pope Paul VI
• Portugal: Bloodless coup ousts right-wing government under dictator Marcello Caetano
• Soviet Union: Solzhenitsyn deported
• Spain: Pope Paul VI canonizes Teresa Ibars the Spanish nun
• West Germany: Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as a close aid exposed as spy – Helmut Schmidt leads

Middle East

• General: End of OPEC price spike
  President Nixon visits Egypt Saudi Arabia, Syria and Israel – later USSR
• Cyprus: Invasion by Turkey
• Israel: Russian ballet dancers (the Panovs) immigrate
  Yitzhak Rabin named to head Israeli cabinet when Golda Meir steps down
  Kissinger persuades Syria and Israel to agree to cease fire on Golan Heights
• Libya: Dog sentenced to month imprisonment for biting a human
• Pakistan: Death of Mohammad Ayub Khan

Pacific

• Australia: Fire season
  Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin
• New Zealand: Death of New Zealand Prime Minister Norman E Kirk

President:

Pres: Richard Nixon resigns
Pres: Gerald Ford

General

• Crime: Kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst announces she will join her captors in the Symbionese Liberation Army
• Culture: "Streaking" fad in US
  AT&T bans discrimination against homosexuals
  Death of Amy Vanderbilt the US columnist on ettiquette
• Energy: OPEC embargo leads to economic problems and oil shortages
• Finance: Worldwide inflation and stagnated growth as Dow Jones falls to 663 - lowest level since 1970 then 577
  End of price and wage controls
• Medicine: Betty Ford mastectomy – she uses it to create awareness for breast cancer
• Military: Amnesty for draft evaders and deserters
• Politics: Watergate hotel break-in, cover-up, secret tapes revealed, impeachment recommended, Nixon resigns, aides convicted, pardoned by Ford
  US General Alixander Haig appointed Supreme Commander of NATO
  Nelson Rockefeller named vice president
• Religion: Four US Episcopal bishops defy church law and ordain 11 women as priests
  Gallup poll shows Roman Catholic attendance down and only 40% of adults in US attend weekly church
• Science: National Research Act sets standards for human experimentation on children<
  US Mariner 10 satellite transmits pictures of Venus and Mercury – venus well sheltered with haze and Mercury has atmosphere
  American scientists detect the psi or J meson which is interpreted as a charmed quark and charmed antiquark
• Sports: Little League Baseball Inc. votes to allow girls to play
  Frank Robinson becomes first Black manager of major league baseball team
  Henry (Hank) Aaron betters Babe Ruth's record
  Muhammed Ali defeats Joe Frazier and George Foreman
• Technology: Oil Shortages
• Time: Year-round daylight saving time adopted and later repealed
• Transportation: US jet reaches speeds of 2000 mph in flight over the US

East

• Connecticut: Ella Grasso becomes first female governor

Midwest

• General: Deadly tornado year
• Kansas: Reports of a girl between 10 and 12 in Delphos running on all fours like a wolf – some scratches and attacks reported
• Ohio: Tornado wipes out Xenia

South

• General: Cassanova Killer Paul John Knowles kills 18-35
• Alabama: 148 tornadoes hit the Birmington area, but residents were forewarned
• Florida: Christine Chubbuch (news reporter) commits suicide on live TV
• Oklahoma: National Weather Service office hit by tornado

West and Pacific

• California: Deborah Gail Stone a Disneyland worker crushed to death in America Sings attraction
• New Mexico: Dust devil destroys mobile homes

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 3,409,987

Temples: 16

16. Washington D.C.

Other

• Over 750,000 tour D.C. Temple
• Stake names changed Church-wide
• "MIA" dropped from men's Priesthood organizations
• Church College of Hawaii renamed BYU-Hawaii
• Church turns regional hospitals over to Intermountain Health Care
• 70s organized in Stakes
• Future Seventy D. Todd Christofferson helps investigate Watergate – first to hear Nixon tapes
• Fords spend three days in Utah and meet with Church leaders
• President Ford appoints Brent Scowcroft as national security advisor to replace Henry Kissinger
• Future BYU President Rex Lee appointed Assistant Attorney General
• Four Mormon secretaries, and numerous other LDS appointments in Ford cabinet
• Reagan visits Utah on political visit
• "Lengthen Your Stride" challenge issued
• Church trades Brigham Young Forest Farm home for several in St. George as visitor centers