2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 77
Harry Chester Peterson 81
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 81

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 44
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 40

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 17
Sandra LaNae Lowe 16
Debra Eileen Lowe 10
Michelle Ann Lowe 8
Lori Ellen Lowe 6

General

Population: 4.70 Billion

• Climate: El Niño disrupts global weather
• Religion: Pope John Paul II signs new Roman Catholic code incorporating Second Vatican Council
• Science: HIV retrovirus identified in France and U.S.
• Technology: Compact discs invented
  Cell phones introduced
• Misc: Four divers plus one killed when semi-submersible decompression chamber explodes and divers' blood boils
• Deaths: Musicians william Walton and Werner Egk, Choreographers GM Balanchine and Anton Dolin, Tennessee Williams (Choked on eyedropper lid), Karen Carpenter, Buckminster Fuller, Jack Dempsey, Spanish surrealist Joan Miro

Africa

• Ethiopia: Famine begins
• South Africa: Earthquake
  Drought
• Sudan: Conflict – over 1.5 million die

Americas

• Argentina: Revert to civilian rule, government overthrown and Alfonsin elected president
• Bahamas: Crack cocaine developed and soon appears in US
• Canada: Sergei Chalibashvili attempts dive and is knocked unconscious by platform
• Caribbean: Communist coup
• Grenada: US invades to assist following attempted Marxist/Black Power coup led by Maurice Bishop
• St. Kitts-Nevis: Becomes independent member of British Commonwealth

Asia

• Japan: Sea of Japan quake and tsunami
• Philippines: Benigno Aquino the rival of Marcos assassinated
• South Korea: Jetliner strays into Soviet space and is shot down with 269 killed

Europe

• Great Britain: English tornado outbreak with 102 funnels

Middle East

• Iraq: Iranians invade north, Iran-Iraq war continues
• Lebanon: US Marines invade
  Suicide bombing in Beirut kills 300 French and US troops

Pacific

• Australia: Ash Wednesday fire

President:

Pres: Ronald Reagan

General

• Crime: US admits shielding former Nazi Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie the "Butcher of Lyon" wanted in France
• Culture: Vanessa Williams is first black Miss America
• Drugs: Crack cocaine becomes widely used
• Entertainment: "Wheel of Fortune" hits number one
  Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, and Judas Priest brought to court alleging subliminal suicidal messages in their music
  Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy" wins Tony Award marking acceptance of gay theater
  125 million tune in to last episode of M*A*S*H
  A-Team on television
  "The Day After" shown on television depicting nuclear war
• Finance: US starts rampant trade deficit
• Law: Supreme COurt declares local abortion restrictions unconstitutional
• Medicine: AIDS hits headline news
• Military: Homeless Vietnam veterans becomes big news item
  Weapons given to Iran to help them against Iraq
• Science: Sally Ride becomes first US woman in space
  First African-American astronaut Guion Bluford
• Technology: Space shuttle Challenger makes maiden voyage
  Compact discs introduced
  Launch of first Spacelab

East

Midwest

• General: Worst drought in 50 years
• Illinois: Chicago first location to get cell service as FCC authorizes Motorola to begin testing

South

• Gulf States: Record cold
• Mississippi: Jimmy Lee Gray in gas chamber dies while bashing his head into pole because gas was insufficient to kill him but left him gasping in agony for eight minutes
• Texas: Henry Lee Lucas America's prolific serial killer caught 3000 claimed and 300 likely

West and Pacific

• California: Earthquake
• Hawaii: Kilauea begins erupting for 25 years +
  Earthquake
• Idaho: Earthquake
• Utah: Widespread flooding

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 5,351,724

Temples: 26

21. Atlanta Georgia
22. Apia Samoa
23. Nuku'alofa Tonga
24. Santiago Chile
25. Papeete Tahiti
26. Mexico City Mexico

Other

• Redo – assembly hall in SLC
• Two temples dedicated same week - first in history
• Multi-stake (regional) conferences held in England