2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 84

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 51
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 47

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Atwood) 24
Md: Floyd Scott Atwood
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Jensen) 23
Md: Peter Anthony Jensen 22
Debra Eileen Lowe 17
Michelle Ann Lowe 15
Lori Ellen Lowe 13

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 3

General

Population: 5.29 Billion

• Science: More evidence for Big Bang
  Hubble telescope launched
  Ulysses craft flies by Jupiter
  Voyager I captures images of solar system from outside
  Human genome project begins
• Technology: WWW (graphic-supporting) part of Internet created at CERN
• Deaths: B.F. Skinner, Designer Halston, Frederick Mellinger (Fredericks of Hollywood), Aaron Copland, Greta Garbo, Leonard Bernstein, Jim Henson, Sammy Davis Jr., El Salvador's Jose Napoleon Duarte, Vietnam's Le Duc Tho of the Indochinese Communist Party

Africa

• Liberia: Civil war
• Namibia: Independence from South Africa and German South-West Africa and renamed to 1994
• South Africa: Nelson Mandela freed and apartheid ends

Americas

• Canada: Gulf of St. Lawrence ice jam
• Chile: Democracy restored under Patricio Aylwin
• Haiti: Aristide elected president until 2004
• Mexico: Heat wave kills 380
• Nicaragua: Sandanista government voted out
• Panama: General Manuel Noriega surrenders

Asia

• India: Plague
• Philippines: Earthquake
• Tibet: Ruache horses rediscovered

Europe

• General: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development founded
  Unrest in Eastern Europe continues
• Armenia and Azerbaijan: Conflicts with Soviet troops intervening
• Bulgaria: Free Elections
• Czechoslovakia: Free Elections
• Germany: Unification of East and West Germany after 1949 split
• Great Britain: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns and John Major leads
• Hungary: Free Elections
• Kazakhstan: Independence from Soviet Union
• Lithuania: Asks independence from USSR and Gorbachev agrees
• Poland: Solidarity party's Lech walesa elected president
• Romania: Free elections
• Soviet Union: Break-off of Soviet countries
  Avalanche kills 43
  Accord with US
  End of Cold War
  Andrei Chikatilo Russian serial killer captured and convicted of murder of 52 women and children
• Yugoslavia: Slovenia breaks away
  Croat-held Dubrovnik shelled by Serb forces
  Communists end monopoly

Middle East

• Iran: Earthquake and landslide in north kills 45,000
• Iraq: "Line in the Sand" in Middle East to stop aggressive Iraq (Operation Desert Shield)
• Kuwait: Saddam Hussein in Iraq invades Kuwait - 26 countries including US stage invasion
• Pakistan: End of Benazir Bhutto's reign as prime minister
• Yemen: North and South Yemen unite

Pacific

• Australia: flood

President:

Pres: George H. W. Bush

General

• Business: US Federal Trade Commission opens investigation of claims of Microsoft monopoly
• Entertainment: Debut of The Simpsons
  NC-17 rating invented as X rating with "social benefits"
  Milli Vanilli admits lip-synching
  Seinfeld debuts
• Education: School districts number 15,361 down from 1932 number of 127,300
• Environment: President Bush signs Clean Air Act
• Law: Supreme Court says flag burning protected speech
  Appeals Court overturns Oliver North’s Iran-Contra conviction
• Medical: ADA Act passes
  FDA approves Norplant contraceptive implants
  Desert Shield and Desert Storm lead to Gulf War Syndrome – possibly from taking experimental nerve agent pyridostigmine or from depleted uranium
  Kaiser Pharmaceuticals and CDC inject 1500 black and Hispanic children in Los Angeles with experimental vaccine rather than standard – not informed consent,
• Military: FDA waives Nuremberg Code for soldiers
• Politics: President George HW Bush agrees to tax increase in spite of promise "Read my lips; no new taxes"

East

Midwest

• General: First Jan 16th tornado ever recorded in US
• Kansas: Tornado causes train accident

South

• Florida: Thong bathing suits banned

West and Pacific

• Arizona: Airport closes due to 122 degree temps
• Colorado: 80 mph winds strand skiers

President

Pres: Ezra Taft Benson

Membership: 7,761,207

Temples: 44

44. Toronto Ontario

Other

• Wards and branches reach 15,000
• Soviet Union recognizes Leningrad branch
• Three new missions in Eastern Europe - Poland, Germany, and Hungary
• Equalization of mission payments announced
• FamilySearch home package released
• Former President Jimmy and Mrs. Carter tour Temple Square
• Carter helps restore missionaries to Ghana
• Soviet ambassador visits Utah and Church
• Helsinki mission extends to Soviet Union
• Two missionaries murdered in Peru
• Church recognized in Kenya
• Missionary contributions equalized
• Money given directly to missionaries not deductible