2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 86

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 53
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 49

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Atwood) 26
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Jensen) 25
Md: Peter Anthony Jensen 24
Debra Eileen Lowe 19
Michelle Ann Lowe 17
Lori Ellen Lowe 15

-1

Jennifer Lyn Atwood 5
Jeremy Scott Atwood 1

General

Population: 5.46 Billion

• Business: Lexus developed by Toyota
• Environment: Earth Summet held by UN in Rio de Janeiro with 172 attending
• Science: Planet discovered outside of our solar system
  Utahraptor discovered
  Ardipithecus ramidus discovered
  Campbell et al show Siberian Traps volcanoes caused Permo-Triassic mass extinction 251 mya
• Technology: Text-based web browser becomes available to public
• War: Bush and Yeltsin proclaim formal end of cold war
• Deaths: Designer Emilio Pucci, Marlene Dietrich, Alex Haley, Anthony Perkins, Isaac Asimov, Lawrence Welk, WIllie Dixon

Africa

• General: Locusts
  Fear of famine due to thinning ozone
• Algeria: Civil war between Islamic fundamentalists and government
• Somalia: UN approves food donations
• South Africa: Drought
• Zimbabwe: Drought

Americas

• General: NAFTA signed
• Brazil: UN earth summit held over environmental concerns
• Canada: Autonomy for Quebec rejected
  Beauty competitions outlawed
• El Salvador: End of civil war
• Nicaragua: Earthquake
• Panama: Noriega sentenced on drug charges

Asia

• China: US lifts trade sanctions
• Indonesia: 7.8 quake and massive tsunami
• Mongolia: Mongolian People's Republic changes name
• Philippines: US forces leave ending a century of American presence
• Vietnam: Free-trade zone opens funded by Taiwan

Europe

• General: European Union created
  France and Germany start joint army "Eurocorps"
• Bosnia-Herzegovinia: Separation from Yugoslavia
  Start of ethnic cleansing in Bosnian war
• Crimea: Becomes independent, bur reincorporated as a republic
• Czechoslovakia: Splits into Czech Republic and Slovakia
• France: Deadly storm
• Great Britain: Prince Charles and Princess Diana separate
  Church of England allows women to become priests
  Labour Party holds pre-election rally that offends voters
  Hoover company offers free flights thinking few would apply but they lose 48 million pounds
• Russia: Leak detected at former site of Chernobyl
  Parliament approves START treaty
• Ukraine: Crimea declares independence but settles for autonomous republic
• Yugoslavia: Bosnia-Herzegovinia breaks away
  Yugoslav Federation becomes Serbia and Croatia
  Siege of Sarajevo by Bosnian Serbs
  UN expels Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia
  Serbia and Montenegro found FR Yugoslavia to 2003

Middle East

• Lebanon: Elections mark end of civil war
• Turkey: Earthquake
  Gomeç avalanche

Pacific

President:

Pres: George H. W. Bush
Pres: William J. Clinton elected over President Bush

General

• Entertainment: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow divorce and Allen’s affair with adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn comes to light
  Johnny Carson ends 20 years on The Tonight Show - Start of Leno and Letterman rivalry
• Law: 27th Amendment passed restraining congressional salaries
• Military: Weinberger indicted in Iran-Contra affair
  Bush pardons former Reagan Administration officials in Iran-Contra affair
  Senate ratifies second Strategis Arms Limitation Treaty
• Technology: compact discs surpass cassette tapes in sales

East

• New York: Flooding closes LaGuardia Airport in major storm
  Columbia University gives 100 brothers of juvenile delinquents fenfluramine to test serotonin theory

Midwest

• Illinois: Carol Mosley-Braun elected to senate
• Wisconsin: Tornado hits state prison

South

• General: Hurricane Andrew hits the South-East
• Florida: Hurricanes include Hurricane Andrew
  Possible tsunami in Florida

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Court clears Exxon Valdez skipper
  American survivalist Christopher McCandless dies of starvation in Denali
• Arizona: 3 tornadoes near Flagstaff
• California: Rodney King riots after four officers acquitted
  Five quakes over 6.1
• Montana: 13 inches of snow
• Nevada: Earthquake

President

Pres: Ezra Taft Benson

Membership: 8,404,087

Temples: 44

Other

• 1,900th stake organized
• Church legally recognized in Tanzania
• Relief Society Sesquicentennial
• Ground broken for first meetinghouse in Swaziland
• Four African nations dedicated
• Relief Society sends supplies to Russia
• Tabernacle Choir travels to Israel
• Literacy reemphasized through church
• 20,000th ward/branch created
• Bush 41 visits BYU, UT
• Humanitarian relief to Somalia
• Presidential candidate Clinton visits Utah where he learns about fasting and thanks leaders for efforts with Hurricane Andrew
• President Faust attends inauguration – after Clinton loses (3rd place) in UT
• Commemoration of "second rescue" of handcart pioneers