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Lynn Thomas Lowe 64
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 60

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 37
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 36
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 45
Debra Eileen Lowe 30
Michelle Ann Lowe 28
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 26
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 23

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 16
Jeremy Scott Atwood 12
Michael Evan Johnson 2

General

Population: 6.32 Billion

• Fashion: Benetton adds microchip to clothes
  Fish-skin clothing launched
• Science: Mapping of entire human genome complete - first version - see 2006 edition
  scientists discover speed of gravity, NASA determines age of universe as 13.7 billion years old - Hubble telescope detects ancient planet of 12.7 billion years
  Y Chromosome analyzed
• Deaths: Savile Row designer Sir Hardy Aimes, Robert Atkins, Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Hines, Bob Hope, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Gregory Peck, John Ritter, Fred Rogers, John Schlesinger, Strom Thurmond

Africa

• Algeria: Plague outbreak
• Ethiopia: Homo sapiens idalltu skulls found
• Liberia: President Charles Taylor forced to leave
• Libya: leader Myammar Qaddafi announces he will give up weapons program
  Blame accepted for 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland and money paid

Americas

• Canada: Paul Martin succeeds Jean Chretien as Prime Minister
  Ontario politician called "evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet"
• Venezuela: Local fighting over President Chavez
  Strike calls for Chavez' resignation

Asia

• General: SARS outbreak
• Burma: Opposition leader Aung San Suy Kyi under house arrest,
• China: Microraptor gui flying dinosaur found with four wings
• India: Heat wave kills 1900
• Japan: Quake
• North Korea: Withdraws from non-proliferation treaty

Europe

• General: Record temperatures and fires - heat wave kills 37,000
• Georgia: President Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
• Great Britain: Ian Kevin Huntley convicted of killing two schoolgirls
• Yugoslavia: renamed into Serbia and Montenegro to 2006

Middle East

• Afghanistan: NATO assumes peacekeeping
• Iraq: US and Britain invade and topple Saddam Hussein
  Suicide bombing destroys UN headquarters in Baghdad
  Interim Iraqi government created
  Looters sack Baghdad museum and library
• Iran: Earthquake destroys ancient city of Bam and 31,000
  International Atomic Energy Agency discovers concealed nuclear program
• Israel: Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem kills 20 and Israel retalliates
  Ariel Sharon elected Prime Minister
• Palestine: Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas sworn in
  Ceasefire declared toward Israel
• Saudi Arabia: Terrorists strike
• Turkey: Suicide bombers attack synagogues

Pacific

President:

Pres: George W. Bush

General

• Entertainment: "Wicked" released on Broadway
  Da Vinci Code causes controversy
  RIAA sues music file-sharers
• Fashion: Converse shoes sold to Nike Corporation
  Converse shoes sold to Nike Corporation
• Finance: Senate raises Treasury debt limit from 984 B to 7.384 T
  Bush signs tax cut measures
  Bush eliminates steel tariffs after World Trade Organization complains,
• Law: Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court declares affirmitive action unconstitutional but approved for higher education
• Military: Bush decides on non-UN sanctioned attack on Iraq
• Science: Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart on reentry killing 7
• Deaths:

East

• General: President's Day storm cripples east coast
• D.C.: John A Muhammad convicted in DC shootings and receives death sentence
• New Jersey: Thick fog
• New York: Thick fog
• Pennsylvania: Tornado destroys Kinzua Viaduct
  Time bomb around neck of pizza delivery man explodes after he robs bank with conspirators

Midwest

• Lake Superior: Nearly freezes over
• Illinois: John Edward Robinson the US “Internet Slave Master” in Chicago caught
• Michigan: Lake snows cripple driving in whiteout
• Missouri: 84 tornadoes touch down in Kansas City in May
• North Dakota: Record warm temperatures in Bismarck with 92 degrees in April

South

• Florida: Rare August tornado
• Louisiana: "Baton Rouge Killer" Derrick Todd Lee caputred after five women killed
• North Carolina: Eight inches of snow in January
• Texas: Dr. Hikaidoh decapitated when head trapped in elevator doors and elevator moves

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Iditarod race changed due to lack of snow and warm conditions
  Quake
  Enviromentalist Timothy Treadwell and girlfriend Amie Huguenard killed and partially consumed by a bear in Katmai Park
• Arizona: Wildfires force Tuscon evacuations
  Hottest night in Phoenix history July 22
• California: Fires make sunspots visible and divert air traffic
  California governor Gray Davis ousted in recall vote – actor Arnold Schwarzenegger elected
  Quake
• Colorado: 7.5 inches of snow in one storm
• Washington: Record warmth in August

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 11,985,254

Temples: 116

115. Kangaroo Point Queensland
116. Redlands California

Other

• Mike Leavitt made EPA administrator
• Tabernacle Choir awarded National Medal of Arts
• Apia Samoa Temple destroyed by fire
• First meetinghouses in Ethiopia, Guyana
• Legal recognition of Church in Benin
• Church holds global leadership training meeting