2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 78
Harry Chester Peterson dies before 82nd birthday
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 82

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 45
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 41

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe 18
Sandra LaNae Lowe 17
Debra Eileen Lowe 11
Michelle Ann Lowe 9
Lori Ellen Lowe 7

General

Population: 4.78 Billion

• Entertainment: "Sunday in the Park With George" on Broadway
  Geldof and Ure initiate Band Aid concerts
• Politics: SALT talks resume between Soviets and US
• Science: Raup and Sepkoski publish claim that extinctions happen every 26 million years
  Leakeys discover most complete Homo erectus
  Alec Jeffreys develops genetic fingerprinting
• Transportation: Kittinger makes first solo transatlantic balloon flight
• Deaths: Truman Capote, Count Basie, Francois Truffaut - French filmmaker, writer JB Priestley,

Africa

• Burkina Faso: Upper Volta renamed Burkina Faso
• Cameroon: Limnic eruption in Lake Manoun kills 37 - two years before bigger leak
• Eritrea: Civil war leads to famine in Ethiopia
• Ethiopia: Start of terrible drought and famine

Americas

• El Salvador: Jose Napooleon Duarte elected president
• Nicaragua: US Congress rebukes Reagan for mining harbors

Asia

• Bangladesh: 2-pound hailstones fall
• Brunei: Becomes independent member of British Commonwealth
• China: Non-governmental entities begin to invest in China
  Britain and China renew agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
• India: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter) assassinated by Sikh bodyguards
  1000 killed in anti-Sikh riots - son Rajiy succeeds Indira
  Gas leak of methyl isocyanate gas at Union Carbide plant in Bhopal kills 2000-15,000 injuring 150,000
  300 slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar
• Japan: Revaluation of Yen leads to investments throughout Asia

Europe

• General: Worst hailstorm to date
• Great Britain: Prince Harry born
  Comedian Tommy Cooper dies on live TV and audience presumes part of act
• Italy: End of Roman Catholicism as state religion
• Soviet Union: Andropov dies and Chernenko becomes Premier
  Boycott of Olympics in USA
• Spain: Picasso vows that he will give up painting if God will spare his sister
• Vatican City: US and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus

Middle East

• Lebanon: US Marines leave
• Syria: Government frees captured US Navy pilot

Pacific

• New Zealand: Declared nuclear-free zone

President:

Pres: Ronald Reagan reelected over Walter Mondale

General

• CommunicationL Bell telephones broken up
• Culture: Miss America Vanessa Williams steps down after posing for Playboy
• Entertainment: Debuts of "Miami Vice" and "The Cosby Show"
  Release of Michael Jackson's Thriller album
  Top show is "Family Ties"
  Actor Jon-Erik Hexum dies shooting self with prop gun and blank cartridge
• Fashion: Levi's "501 Blues" introduced
• Law: SUpreme Court rules VCR taping not in violation of copyright
  Court rules that legislation is illegal if religious acivities are in the mind of the legislator
• Military: Government declared negligent in above-ground nuclear testing
• Politics: Geraldine Ferarro first female vice-presidential nominee
  Jesse Jackson runs for presidency
• Sports: Carl Lewis wins four golds at LA Olympic Games
  Michael Jordan signs 5-year controact with Nike
• Technology: Shuttles Challenger and Discovery created
  Mac computer introduced by Apple
  Camcorder invented

East

• New York: Occidental Petroleum pays for Love Canal pollutions
  Bernhard Goetz shoots four on subway and is acquitted

Midwest

South

• Carolinas: 36 tornadoes

West and Pacific

• California: Quakes
• Hawaii: Mauna Loa erupts
• Oregon: Followers of Indian guru Bagwan Shree Rajneesh taint saladbars with Salmonella
• Utah: Mining disaster in Huntington kills 27
  "Footloose" filmed in Utah County
  Extensive flooding, including part of Salt Lake main becoming temporary river

President

Pres: Spencer W. Kimball

Membership: 5,641,054

Temples: 32

27. Boise Idaho
28. Sydney Australia
29. Manilla Philippines
30. Dallas Texas
31. Taipei Taiwan
32. Guatemala City Guatemala

Other

• Members of 1st Quorum of Seventies given areas, some 3-5 year calls
• Missions revert back to two years
• 1500th Stake
• Charlene Wells named Miss America
• Tabernacle choir sings at start of L.A. Olympics - Gymnast Peter Vidmar wins gold
• BYU wins NCAA national championship
• Reagan and Church leaders discuss Book of Mormon - Genealogy presented to Reagan
• Personal Ancestral File released
• Four-Phase Genealogical Program - in-wards
• Chinese premier visits Polynesian Cultural Center