2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 82

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 49
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 45

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Atwood) 22
Md: Floyd Scott Atwood
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Jensen) 21
Md: Peter Anthony Jensen 20
Debra Eileen Lowe 15
Michelle Ann Lowe 13
Lori Ellen Lowe 11

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 1

General

Population: 5.11 Billion

• General:
• Entertainment: Debut of Phantom of the Opera
• Science: Cairns shows bacteria can direct mutations for favorable outcome (hypermutation due to stress) under poor environmental conditions
  Scientists receive patent for genetically engineered animal
  Physicist Stephen Hawking publishes A Brief History of Time
• War: Angola and Cuba end war
• Deaths: Cartoonist Charles Addams, Roy Orbison, Jazz musician Chet Baker, French politician Edgar Faure, Nicaraguan guerilla fighter Nora Astorga

Africa

• Angola: End of war with Cuba
• Chad: Meningitis outbreak
• Sudan: Flood in Khartoum

Americas

• General: US and Canada reach free trade agreement in advance of NAFTA
• Canada: Quake
• Cuba: End of war with Angola (Africa)
• Jamaica: Hurricane
• Nicaragua: US-backed Contra rebels seek refuge in Honduras

Asia

• Bangladesh: Flooding
• Burma: Military junta seizes power
• China: Approval of RU486 birth control
• Korea: Seoul Olympics
• Nepal: Earthquake
• Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto choses as first woman Prime Minister
• Vietnam: Agreement to withdraw from Kampuchea (Cambodia)

Europe

• General: Terrorists kill nine on Aegean cruise
• Armenia: Spitak quake kills 25,000 - 100,000
• France: Approval of RU486 birth control
• Great Britain: Plane explodes over Lockerbie Scotland killing 259 plus 11
  British politician claims most eggs infected with salmonella - forced to resign
• Italy: Robert Succo (Zucco) the serial killer commits suicide
• Soviet Union: New constutution weakens Communist Party rule and introduces freedoms

Middle East

• General: UN arranges cease fire between Iran and Iraq (also called Gulf War)
• Iran: Salmon Rushdie publishes Satanic Verses in Britain and is strongly hated in Iran
  
• Iraq: Saddam Hussein uses chemical weapons on Kurds in North Iraq
• Israel: Occupation of Gaza Strip
• Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto becomes first female Prime Minister

Pacific

• Australia: Earthquake

President:

Pres: Ronald Reagan
Pres: George H. W. Bush elected over Michael Dukakis

General

• Entertainment: Ted Turner starts TNT network and buys MGM film library – starts colorizing
  Compact discs outsell vinyl records
  Final year of The Cosby Show rated #1
• Environment: Drought causes US to import grains
  NASA scientist warns of global warming ang greenhouse effect
• Military: McFarlane pleads guilty in Iran Contra case
  US Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf killing 290
• Science: US launches shuttle Discovery and return to Space

East

• New Jersey: Medical waste washes up on shores starting new environmental push
• New York: 70 inches of snow falls within the state
  Foster children given experimental AIDS drugs rather than standard treatments in New York

Midwest

• Iowa: 22 Mother's Day tornadoes
• Michigan: 100 hours of snow

South

• Louisiana: 9 inches of rain in New Orleans

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Earthquake
• Colorado: Denver principal removes Bible from school library
• Hawaii: C.B. Lansing - flight attendant - sucked out of airliner in midflight when bulkhead torn off - Aloha airlines
• Wyoming: Massive Yellowstone fire

President

Pres: Ezra Taft Benson

Membership: 6,721,210

Temples: 41

Other

• Elder John C. Carmack meets with Reagan and the Church is presented with an award
• Church completes 100 million endowments for the dead
• Seven stakes created in Lima Peru in one weekend
• First stake with all-black leadership in Abu, Nigeria - first stake in West Africa
• Hungary and East Germany allow missionaries, recognition
• Statement on AIDS released
• BYU Folk Dancers only North American dancers at opening ceremonies at Olympics
• 1700th stake - Manaus, Brazil