2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 75
Harry Chester Peterson 79
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 79

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 42
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 38

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 15
Sandra LaNae Lowe 14
Debra Eileen Lowe 8
Michelle Ann Lowe 6
Lori Ellen Lowe 4

General

Population: 4.54 Billion

• Archaeology: Anthropologists discover 12,000 BC religious sanctuary in Spain
• Business: du Pont acquires COnoco oil
• Fashion: Giorgio cologne starts scent-strip advertisements and perfume wars
• Health: AIDS first diagnosed in the U.S. - official start of pandemic
  Firsst heart-lung transplant
• Science: Scanning tunneling microscope invented
  concept of expanding universe proposed
  "giant void" in constellation Bootes observed
• Technology: PC released by IBM
  First space shuttle launch
  Nearly-digital camera (Mavica) invented
  Bill Gates states that 640 K will be maximum memory needed for computers
• Deaths: Bob Marley, Hoagy Carmichael

Africa

• Ciskei: Puppet state becomes independent from South Africa to 1994
• Egypt: Anwar el-Sadat cracks down on dissidents and is assassinated by Islamic extremists – Hosni Mubarak rules
  Cairo police break into the home of Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi
• Ethiopia: Start of drought to 1985
• Ghana: Coup
• Mauritania: Slavery abolished
• Seychelles: Mercenaries take airport in coup attempt
• South Africa: Major storm

Americas

• Antigua and Barbuda: Full independence from Britain
• Argentina: Disappearances of citizens reported
• Belize: Full independence as it changes its name from British Honduras - disputed by Guatemala
• Canada: Resolution approved to break free from Britain
• Chile: President Augusto Pinochet reelected
• Cuba: Dengue fever outbreak
• El Salvador: Civil war - Atlacatl Battalion massacres over 800
• Mexico: Major cocaine traffic across border
• Nicaragua: Reagan begins to fund Contras
• Panama: Strongman Omar Torrijos (Herrera) killed in crash and Col. Manuel Antonio Noriega leads
• Suriname: Failed coup
• Uruguay: Gregorio Alvarez installed as president

Asia

• Bangladesh: Failed coup
• Burma: President resigns
• China: Landslide in Sichuan
  Mao Zedong's widow sentenced to death for rebellion but sentence suspended
  Satellites launched
  Infanticide of females rampant
• India: 800 killed when cyclone blows train off track in Bihar
• Japan: Economy prospers
  Kenji Urada Japanese worker killed by robot when it pushes him into grinding machine
  64k chips produced for computers
• Malaysia: Malay Mahathir bin Mohammad becomes prime minister
• Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos reelected

Europe

• France: Socialist François (Maurice) Mitterand elected
  High-speed TGV train begins service
• Great Britain: Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer
  Terrorists assassinate North Ireland's former parliamentary speaker Sir Norman Stronge
  Ten IRE hunger strike protesters die in Belfast Prison including elected leader Bobby Sands
  Bruce George Peter Lee convicted of killing 15 as serial killer arsonist with 68 IQ
  "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe convicted after killing 13 prostitutes
  Church of England admits women to holy orders
  Six blank shots fired at Queen Elizabeth
  Toxteth (Liverpool) and Brixton (London) riots
  First London Marathon
  Donna Griffiths of Pershore Worcestershire UK starts series of sneezes that end after 978 days
  Publisher Rupert Murdoch buys Times of London
  1410 meter Humber Bridge in Britain opens
  British government privatizrs oil and gas
• Greece: Joins EC
  Earthquakes
• Ireland: Fire at Stardust Nightclub in Dublin kills 48
• Italy: Pope John Paul II wounded in assassination attempt
  Cabinet resigns after Masonic interference
• Malta: Paul Gauci dies after welding butterfly bomb to pipe to make a hammer
• Norway: Gra Harlem Brundtland becomes first female prime minister
• Poland: General Wojciech Jaruzelski becomes prime minister and cracks down on protesters and trade union
  Lech Walesa leads opposition during martial law
• Spain: Failed coup attempt
  Major Spanish operation against Basque separatists
  Divorce legalized
• Sweden: Soviet submarine runs aground

Middle East

• General: Petroleum prices soar to $30 a barrel and OPEC threatens to cut production
• Afghanistan: Guerilla groups including Taliban oppose Soviets
• Egypt: President Sadat assassinated
• Iran: Terrorists release American hostages
  Succession of deaths and removals of presidents
  Iran-Iraq war continues
  Quakes register 6.9 and 7.3
• Iraq: Israel bombs nuclear installation
• Israel: Menachem Begin appoints Ariel Sharon as minister of defense
• Lebanon: Christian militia shoots down Syrian helicopters

Pacific

• Palau: Self-governing

President:

Pres: James E. "Jimmy" Carter
Pres: Ronald Reagan inaugurated

General

• Economy: 14 percent inflation and 7.4 percent unemployment
  Keynesian economic practiced replaced with supply-side economics
• Entertainment: MTV broadcasts begin
  FCC deregulates radio but keeps Fairness Doctrine
  Walter Conkite retires and replaced by Dan Rather
  Washington Post reporter Janet Cooks wins pulitzer for fraudulent story
  Metallica forms
  General Hospital wedding of Luke and Laura sets record for daytime TV
  Beastie Boys makes rap more mainstream
  Actress Natalie Wood disappears off family yacht and drowns
  "Cats" and "Dreamgirls" debut on Broadway
• Food: Saccharin listed as suspected carcinogen until 2000
  Asparatame (NutraSweet) approved for sale in US
  Prego spaghetti sauce introduced
  Nutri-Grain cereals introduced
• Law: Sandra Day O'Connor appointed first female Supreme Court justice
  Supreme Court allows TV cameras in court
• Medicine: NY and San Francisco physicians report Kaposi sarcoma increase among homosexual men and addicts - AIDS pandemic has begun
  Anti-ulcer drug Zantac introduced
  Genetic Systems corporation starts experimental bone marrow transplant research with man-made proteins
• Military: Bradley FIghting Vehicle (tank) goes into production after death of General Bradley
  Vietnam Memorial designed
• Philanthropy: John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation begins giving philanthropic awards
• Politics: President Reagan survives assassination attempt by John W Hinckley - Press Secretary James Brady suffers permanent brain damage
  Solidarity Day march protests Reagan's stance on affirmative action
  Start of deregulation and increase of spending
  Reagan fires striking air traffic controllers
  Division among Republicans as Sen. Barry Goldwater speaks against "Moral Majority" under Rev. Jerry Falwell
  Reagan cuts school lunches but protests force him to reinstall
  Equal Rights Amendment defeated
• Sports: Major League Baseball strike
  Tennis greats include John McEnroe and Chris Evert-Lloyd
• Technology: Space shuttleColumbia launches
  Voyager 2 passes Saturn
  IBM and Intel team for first personal computer with max memory of 256 kb memory - Compaq follows
  Norton develops UnErase program
  Smith Corona introduces first word processor
  Three workers killed during space shuttle test
  Games Frogger and Donkey Kong debut though Atari stock plummets
  Synthetic polarfleece by Patagonia made of polyester microfiber
  Technical standards for the compact disc accepted – paves way for CD technology
  Laptop computers introduced
  first gamer to die from video games Jeff Dailey gets high score in Berzerk and suffers heart attack at 19 – a year later an 18 year old died getting high score in same game
• Travel: Air travel drops following firing of controllers
  Frequent flier program started by American Airlines

East

• New York: Simon and Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park attracts 500,000
  Weather Underground robs armored truck

Midwest

• Missouri: Walkways at Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency collapse killing 113
• Ohio: University transfers genes between species

South

• Arkansas: "Scientific Creationism" legislated but protested
• Georgia: Atlanta child murderer caught

West and Pacific

• Alaska: American photographer Carl McCunn dropped off in Alaska to photograph wildlife but fails to arrange pickup and shoots self rather than starve
• California: Wonderland Gang (cocaine cartel in LA) brutally murdered
• Oregon: Russian director Boris Sagal dies on set by walking into helicopter tail rotor
  Zebra fish clone created at University of Oregon
• Washington: Deadliest avalanche on Mt. Ranier
• Wyoming: David Kirwan dies from jumping into hot spring at Yellowstone while trying to rescue a dog
  Black footed ferret found not to be extinct but living among prairie dogs

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 4,920,449

Temples: 20

20. Jordan River Utah

Other

• Stakes linked via satellite - 500 dishes
• New Triple Combinations issued
• Nine slightly smaller temples announced
• Graduated meetinghouses announced - "Sage Plan"
• Tabernacle Choir sings at Reagan's inauguration and Donnie and Marie perform at various events, President (of the 12) Benson and Elder Wirthlin attends, LDS Washington attorney serves as chairman of inaugural’s law committee, large numbers of LDS serve in Reagan White House
• First Latin-American General Authority called – Angel Abrea
• First stakes in Milan and Portugal
• Third counselor in First Presidency called
• MX Missile controversy – Church opposes transport through Utah and it eventually fails
• Members pray for wounded President Reagan
• Three-fold mission of Church enumerated