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Lynn Thomas Lowe 65
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 61

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 38
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 37
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 46
Debra Eileen Lowe 31
Michelle Ann Lowe 29
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 27
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 24

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 17
Jeremy Scott Atwood 13
Michael Evan Johnson 3

General

Population: 6.39 Billion

• Communication: Google founders become instant billionaires when company goes public
• Politics: UN oil for food program scandal comes to light
  UN expands
• Science: NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars
  Live giant squid first photographed
  NASA claims water on Mars detected
  Planetoid Sedna becomes largest object discovered since Pluto in 1930
  Cassini-Huygens spacecraft reaches Saturn's space
  Explorers reach oceanic depths of 2068 meters setting record
  Maui bird - male Po'o-uli dies in captivity making species extinct
  Scientists create UUT (Element 113) and UUP (115)
  Ediacaran period added between 600mya and 542 mya before Vendian and Cambrian
• Deaths: Julia Child, Estee Lauder, Geoffrey Beene, Juliana Queen of Netherlands, Francoise Sagan, Marlon Brando, Ronald Reagan Yasir Arafat, Marlon Brando, Ray Charles, Alistair Cooke, Spaulding Gray, Tony Randall, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sontag, Peter Ustinov, Francis Crick

Africa

• Chad: Coup fails
• Egypt: Bombings at resort town kill 34
• Ivory Coast: National Army bombings kill 9 including French UN soldiers - air force destroyed in retalliation
• Morocco: 6.5 earthquake
• Sudan: Darfur conflict ceasefire as 21 year civil war ends and UN applies pressure
  Ebola outbreak
• Tanzania: end of man-eating lion attacks

Americas

• General: Hurricanes Frances and Ivan ravage Caribbean and Gulf
• Argentina: Buenos Aires night club fire kills 194
• Brazil: Launches first rocket
  Hurricane Catarina hits Brazil - rare Sount Atlantic
• Canada: Blizzard dumps 37.4 inches of snow
  Submarine stranded in North Atlantic - one crewmember killed
• Colombia: Quake
• Costa Rica: Quake
• Dominica: Quake
• Haiti: Hurricane Jeanne causes mudslides killing 3006
  President Aristide deposed by armed rebels
• Nicaragua: Quake
• Paraguay: Supermarket fire kills 400
• Venezuela: President Chavez survives recall referendum

Asia

• General: Post-Christmas Tsunami kills over 186,000 following 9.3 quake
• Bangladesh: Bombs kill 13 in Dhaka
  Cholera outbreak
• China: Coal mine explosion kills over 150
  Quake
• East Timor: Quake
• Hong Kong: Thousands protest anniversary of Tianamen Square massacre
• India: Dr. Manmohan Singh becomes first Sikh Prime Minister of India
• Indonesia: Bomb blast outside of Australian embassy kills 11
  Homo floresiensis "hobbit" fossils found extinct 13,000 years with grapefruit-sized heads
  Typhoon Sudal hits isle of Yap
  Dengue Fever outbreak
• Japan: Classmate killing of schoolgirl
  Mihama Nuclear Power Plant leaks killing five
  Typhoon Songda kills 45
  Typhoon Tokage kills 98
  6.7 quake causes landslide killing 68 and leaving 103,000 homeless
  Quake
• North Korea: Trains carrying explosives collide killing 161 injuring 1300
  Mobile phones banned
• Philippines: SuperFerry bombing kills 116
  Two typhoons - "Winnie" kills 669 with 695 missing
  Quake
• Senegal: Cholera outbreak
• South Korea: Scientists clone 30 human embryos and remove stem cells
  High-speed rail opens
• Taiwan: Whale explodes while being transported for necropsy
  President Chen Shui-bian shot at, wins election by 0.2%
  Taipei 101 opens at 1670 feet
  Woman dies of alcohol intoxication after submersing herself for 12 hours in bathtub – Blood alcohol content was 1.35% as she tried to avoid SARS

Europe

• General: NATO admits Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia
• Chechnea: President killed by landmine under stage during parade
• Cyprus: Greeks on island reject UN reunification plan with Turkish Cypriots
• Czech Republic: Bomb attack
• France: Religious clothing banned in schools
  Last coal mine closes
  Celing in Paris' airport collapses killing six
  Pickled heart of Louis XVII of France buried in royal crypt
  Michael Fourniret "Ogre of the Ardennes" serial killer caught
  French serial killer sentenced &Eacue;mile Louis
• Great Britain: Queen Mary 2 becomes largest passenger ship afloat
  Flooding in Cornwall
  Protestors storm Palace of Westminster regarding fox hunting
  Northern Ireland robbers steal over 22 million pounds from Northern Bank
  Ronald McClagish trapped inside wardrobe that fell over - dies from bronchitis after leaky pipe floods it
• Greece: Blizzard
  Albanian terrorists hold bus hostage and demand 1 million euros
  Summer Olympics in Athens
• Ireland: Smoking banned
  Dublin Port Tunnel excavation complete
• Kosovo: Organized violence kills 19 burns 8000 Serbian homoes 300 Orthodox churches and schools
• Macedonian president Traikovski killed in plane crash
• Norway: Thieves steal Munch's The Scream and other works
• Romania: Quake
• Russia: Chechnyan rebels crash two planes
  Suicide bombings kills 51 in Moscow
  Water park collapse kills 25
  Putin wins second term
  Chechen terrorists take hostages in Beslan school hostage crisis - 335 die and 700 injured
• Spain: 3/11 bombings of rush-hour trains kill 191
  Socialists in power
• Ukraine: Presidential election declared fraudulent
  Protestors get Yushchenko declared prime minister
  Tests show presidential candidate Yushchenko poisoned with dioxin
• Vatican City: Full membership rights in the UN except voting

Middle East

• Afghanistan: Leishmaniasis found
  Hamid Karzai inaugurated as first popularly elected president
• Iraq: Bombings and war continue
  Blackwater employees killed and mutilated
  US gives power to Iraqi government
  380 tons of explosives reported missing in Iraq
• Iran: Train derailment kills 320
  One third of parliament steps down to protest banning of reformists
  N Atomic Energy Agency tells Iran to stop enriching Uranium
  Capture of Mohammed Bijeh the serial killer who raped and killed 16 young boys
• Israel: Suicide bombers kill 11, then 16
  Israeli prime minister Sharon announces plans to withdray from Gaza Strip
  controlled fire discovered at 790,000 year old site
• Pakistan: Musharraf elected dictator
  Aq Khan admits he sold nuclear weapon plans to North Korea and Libya
• Palestine: Yasir Arafat dies in Paris
• Saudi Arabia: Hajj stampede in Mina kills 251
  Terrorists attack US Consulate
• Turkey: Apartment collapse kills 90

Pacific

• Australia: Riots between police and Aboriginal residents
  Train crash injures 150
• New Zealand: Meteorite strikes house (3 pounds)
  Public smoking banned
  Quake in Macaquarie Islands
• Solomon Islands: Quake

President:

Pres: George W. Bush reelected over John Kerry

General

• Culture: Facebook started
  Statue of Liberty reopens
  TV Show Lost airs
  Levi sells the Dockers brand to another company Thongs become popular as underwear
  End of “grunge” style
  Axe body spray introduced
• Economy: Last Oldsmobile
  Tax cuts extended
• Entertainment: Mel Gibson releases The Passion of the Christ
  Michael Moore releases Fahrenheit 9/11 regarding terrorist attacks and George W Bush
  Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake wardrobe malfunction at Superbowl XXXVII
  Linda Ronstadt ejected from Las Vegas Aladdin Hotel after praising Michael Moore
  Paris Hilton fame at high point
  Martha Stewart sentenced for insider trading
  Dan Rather discredited for not checking sources in 60 Minutes report on George W Bush
• Military: CIA admits no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
  Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse revealed
  WWII monument dedicated
• Politics: Ban against Libya travel lifted
  Secretary of State Colin Powell resigns and Condoleezza Rice confirmed
  Democratic candidate Howard Dean ends concession speech with a yell that cost him the nomination
• Science: Science: NASA's MER-A (Spirit) lands on Mars
  NASA Scramjet reaches Mach 9.6 at 7000 mph
  Bush proposes space program that includes flights to the moon, mars and beyond
  Michael Melvil pilots SpaceShipOne – first solo private craft
  Stephen Hawking reverses opinion on black holes and concludes that information can be retrieved
• Sports: Lance Armstrong wins sixth Tour de France
• Deaths: Jack Paar, Olive Osmond, Tony Randall, Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Isabel Sanford, Francis Crick (ENG), Fay Wray (CAN), Julia Child, Johnny Ramone, Janet Leigh, Rodney Dangerfield, Christopher Reeve, Yasser Arafat, John Drew Barrymore, Estée Lauder

East

• Massachusetts: legalizes same-sex marriages
  Curse of the Bambino broken as Red Sox win World Series
• New York: Would-be "Saudi Princess" Antoinette Millard claims muggers stole her jewels - proved impostor later

Midwest

• Missouri: Tornado in Ellsinore exactly two years after nearly identical one

South

• General: Hurricane Ivan hits Gulf - third costliest to that date and with 92 dead
  White Christmas in Texas and New Orleans
• Florida: Hurricanes Bonnie, Charley, Frances and Jeanne
• Texas: Trains collide spilling chlorine - three die
• Virginia: Tropical Storm Gaston dumps 10.5 inches of rain on Richmond

West and Pacific

• California: San Francisco issues same-sex marriage licenses
  First privately-funded space plane
  Accidental reporting of tornado in Los Angeles
  Vote to fund embryonic research
• Colorado: Man destroys local buildings with home-made tank
• New Mexico: Hail flows into dry wash to depth of 15 feet
• Washington: Mount St. Helens activates
  Phillip Quinn tries to heat lava lamp on stove and explosion sends glass into his heart killing him

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 12,275,822

Temples: 119

117. Accra Ghana Temple
118. Copenhagen Denmark Temple
119. Manhattan New York Temple

Other

• Church membership in Mexico hits one million
• Church membership reaches 12 million
• Elders Dieter F. Uchdorf and David A. Bednar named Apostles
• Doubleday publishes commercial Book of Mormon
• Reagan's death acknowledged by Church leaders
• Mike Leavitt made Secretary of Health and Human Services
• President Hinckley receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
• First meetinghouse in Cambodia dedicated
• Sixth Quorum of the Seventy created
• Preach My Gospel introduced