2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 85

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 52
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 48

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Atwood) 25
Md: Floyd Scott Atwood
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Jensen) 24
Md: Peter Anthony Jensen 23
Debra Eileen Lowe 18
Michelle Ann Lowe 16
Lori Ellen Lowe 14

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 4
Jeremy Scott Atwood born

General

Population: 5.37 Billion

• Environment: Jacques Cousteau mentions we need to lose 350,000 people per day for the health of the planet
• Technology: WWW becomes part of the Internet
• Transportation: First transpacific hot-air balloon flight
  Bankruptcy spells end of Pan American airlines
• Warfare: France and China accept non-proliferation nuclear treaty and US Russia sign reduction treaty
• Deaths: English novelist Graham Greene, Freddie Mercury of Queen dies of AIDS, Miles Davis, Theodore Seuss Geisel, Frank Capara, baseball great Leo Durocher

Africa

• Ethiopia: End of revolutionary regime
• Libya: US indicts Libyan in 1998 Lockerbie Scotland bombing
• South Africa: Apartheid ends when European sanctions cease and parliament repeals laws

Americas

• General: Cholera epidemic sickens 100,000 in South America
• Costa Rica: Earthquake
• Haiti: Troops sieze president in uprising and US suspends assistance
• Mexico: Chicxulub crater discovered in Yucatan supporting mesozoic/cenozoic asteroid impact theories

Asia

• Bangladesh: Large cyclone 2B kills 138,000
• Burma: Pro-democracy leader elected
  Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize and is imprisoned by military government
• China: Yangtze River floods
• India: Earthquake
• Japan: Unzen volcano erupts - France's Maurice and Katia Krafft die in pyroclastic flow
  Nuclear accident
• Philippines: Mt. Pinatubo erupts killing 700

Europe

• General: EU heads of government plan closer political and financial union at Maastricht
  Anglo-French Channel Tunnel meets
  Allied force unites to liberate Kuwait
  Warsaw Pact dissolves
  6,000 year old body discovered in Alps
• Albania: Communist government resigns
• Austria/Hungary: Dissolution into six republics
  Start of Serbo-Croatian War
• France: HIV outbreak due to tainted blood
  Earthquake and avalanche in French Alps
  Diver discovers cave paintings
• Germany: East and West unite to form single Germany
  Joachim Kroll the German cannibal serial killer dies in prison
• Great Britain: US indicts Libyan in 1988 Lockerbie Scotland bombing
• Italy: Angry artist attack Michelangelo's David with hammer and breaks toe
• Soviet Union: Collapse and renamed Russia
  Communists try to overthrow Gorbachev - he resigns
  USSR breaks to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
  Gorbachev resigns and Yeltsin becomes president
  Former Soviet states form Commonwealth of Independent States
• Yugoslavia: Civil war breaks out after country breaks up into Serbia, Croatia, and Macedonia - Slovenia "Bosnia and Herzegonina"

Middle East

• Afghanistan: Earthquake
• Iraq: Operation Desert Storm launches January
• Kuwait: Allied forces liberate Kuwait from Iraq during Gulf War - leader reinstated
• Lebanon: US and British hostages released

Pacific

President:

Pres: George H. W. Bush

General

• Business: businessman Gerald Ratner jokes about quality of one of his products and his company nose-dives
  Proctor and Gamble buys Max Factor cosmetics
• Crime: BTK serial killer Dennis Rader captured
  Supreme Court limits death row appeals
• Culture: Condom ads first shown on television
• Entertainment: Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" launches grunge music
  Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) arrested in Florida adult theater for indecent exposure
• Law: Supreme COurt limits death row appeals
  Clarence Thomas appointed to SUpreme COurt as second African-American over accusations os sexual harassment of Professor Anita Hill
• Medicine: FDA approves treatment for AIDS
• Military etc.: Webster retires as CIA director and is succeeded by Gates
• Technology: Gopher Internet interface created

East

• Pennsylvania: Edward Juchniewicz killed when ambulance stretcher rolls down hill and overturns

Midwest

• General: Halloween Megastorm hits upper Midwest
• Kansas: 5-inch hail in Witchita
  Dennis Rader the BTK killer captured in Kansas
• Minnesota: Full blizzard on Halloween
• Wisconsin: Jeffrey Dahmer captured after murdering 17 plus cannibalism

South

• Texas: Charles Albright of Dallas arrested for killing prostitute(s) and removing their eyes

West and Pacific

• California: Earthquake
• Colorado: Golfball-sized hail in Denver
• Hawaii: Kilauea erupts
• New Mexico: Eclipse reveals lights in the sky and possible objects seen by many - possibly Venus
• Utah: Landscape arch collapses forcing trail beneath to close
  Bush comes to Utah

President

Pres: Ezra Taft Benson

Membership: 8,089,848

Temples: 44

Other

• Church membership reaches 8 million
• 500,000th missionary called
• Church recognized in Ivory Coast, Congo and Russia
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism published
• 11 new missions increase the number to 267
• Tabernacle Choir tours eastern Europe
• President Bush meets with Church leaders in Utah
• All membership records computerized
• 1,800th stake created