2

Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 89

1

Lynn Thomas Lowe 56
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 52

0

Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 29
Md: William Phillips
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Jensen) 28
Md: Peter Anthony Jensen 27
Debra Eileen Lowe 22
Michelle Ann Lowe 20
Lori Ellen Lowe 18

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 8
Jeremy Scott Atwood 4

General

Population: 5.7 Billion

• Culture: IBM drops dress code in favor of casual attire
• Science: First whole genome mapped H influenzae
  first cloned sheep from embryo cells - see 1996
  Bose-Einstein condensate created in Denver and MIT - later Nobel Prize
• Technology: Carsonite creates highway noise barrier made of scrap tires
  Steve Fossettt makes first solo transpacific balloon flight
• Deaths: Maurizio and Paolo Gucci, Jerry Garcia, Howard Cosell, Rose Kennedy, Mickey Mantle, Ginger Rogers, singer Selena Quintanilla

Africa

• Rwanda: Death toll reaches 2000 in fighting

Americas

• General: Eruption and mudflow at Nevado del Ruiz
• Mexico: Popocatepetl begins erupting
  US rescues Mexican economy with $20 billion in aid
• Peru: Earthquake and tsunami
  Cholera outbreak

Asia

• India: Hindu "Milk Miracle" as statue of Ganesha reported to drink milk for several days
• Japan: Kobe quake kills 5500+
  Eruption of Mount Sakurajima
  Aum Shinrikyo sect releases sarin gas into Tokyo subway killing eight

Europe

• General: Schengen agreement allows open frontiers in Western Europe
• Bosnia-Herzegovinia: Clinton achieves cease-fire with Dayton Accord
• Croatia: Offensive launched against Serbs
• France: 30,000 year old painting found
  Nuclear device exploded in Pacific over protests
• Great Britain: England adopts metric system
  End of killings of "Gay Slayer" who killed five
  Death of Frederick Walter Stephen West a serial killer who killed with his wife Rosemary
• Ireland: Votes to legalize divorce and remarriage
• Kazakhstan: Blizzard kills 112
• Russia: Earthquake
  MIR Space Station hosts US

Middle East

• Israel: Agreement to withdraw from West Bank towns
  Premier Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

Pacific

• Australia: 39 year old Australian shoots self three times with pump-action shotgun first through chest but missing vital organs, then through throat and jaw, and finally operates with toes and hits heart

President:

Pres: William J. Clinton

General

• Business: Nike withdraws billboard with the name “Allah” due to Islamic pressure
  Ford recycles phone and computer housings into grilles of trucks
• Crime: O.J. Simpson acquitted
• Culture: Million Man March led by Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan gathers half million
• Entertainment: Grateful Dead break up
  Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson retires
• Military: End of Pentagon’s "Star Gate" project involving psychic research
• Politics: US recognizes Vietnam
• Technology: Major US newspapers create online network

East

• New York: Metropolitan Opera installs screens on audience seats

Midwest

• General: Busiest tornado season since 1933
• Illinois: Chicago heat wave kills 739
• Indiana: 135 mph winds
• Ohio: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum opens in Cleveland
• Oklahoma: Murrow Federal Building bombed

South

• Florida: Hurricane Opal hits
• Tennessee: F4 tornado in Ethridge

West and Pacific

• Colorado: Denver snowstorm kills millions of trees
• Utah: Salt Lake selected for 2002 Olympics

President

Pres: Howard W. Hunter dies
Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 9,340,898

Temples: 47

47. Bountiful, Utah

Other

• Church membership reaches 9 million
• Proclamation to the World on the Family announced
• New Church logo announced
• 60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace Dec. 18
• Area Authorities created and Regional Representatives discontinued
• Church leaders meet with Clinton announcing proclamation to the world plus genealogy – Monica Lewinsky starts work at the White House same day and two days later the relationship began