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Lynn Thomas Lowe 68
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 64

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 41
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 40
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 49
Debra Eileen Lowe 34
Michelle Ann Lowe 32
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 30
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 27

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 20
Jeremy Scott Atwood 16
Michael Evan Johnson 6
Alena Ann Hatfield 1

General

Population: 6.62 Billion

• Arts: Final Harry Potter book sells 8 million copies in 24 hours
• Science: Global warming declared human-caused and reparable by quick action in the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and then UN panel in April
  End of a round of bee disappearing (colony collapse) disease
• Deaths: US philanthropist Brooke Astor, Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, Art Buchwald, US designer Liz Claiborne, Evangelist Jerry Falwell, US-Canadian actor Robert Goulet, US billionaire Leona Helmsley, US actress Betty Hutton, writer Molly Ivins, Lady Bird Johnson, Scottish actress Deborah Kerr, writer Madeleine L’Engle, writer Norman Mailer, Scottish actor Ian Richardson, writer Arthur Schlesinger Jr., writer Sidney Sheldon, soprano Beverly Sills, actress Anna Nicole Smith, performer Ike Turner, author Kurt Vonnegut, Austrian politician Kurt Waldheim, actress Jane Wyman, Russian president Boris Yeltsin, stuntman Eval Kineval

Africa

• Angola: Cholera outbreak
• Congo: Ebola breakout
• Ethiopia: Cholera outbreak
• Kenya: Violence between rival tribes in Kenya as Raila Odinga beats incumbent Mwai Kibaki
• Nigeria: Infantile paralysis outbreak
• Somalia: Cholera outbreak, war
• South Africa: African National Congress chooses Jacob Zuma as leader overthrowing president Thabo Mbeki,
• Tanzania: Earthquake
• Uganda: Ebola outbreak

Americas

• Argentina: Buenos Aires experiences first snowfall in 89 years
  Christina Fernandez de Kirchner elected first woman president
• Brazil: Earthquake
• Chile: 7.7 Earthquake
• Dominican Republic: Ebola outbreak, Dengue fever outbreak
• Guatemala: Earthquake
• Martinique: Earthquake
• Mexico: Earthquake, Dengue fever outbreak
• Nicaragua: Herricane Felix (category 5) hits
• Peru: Earthquakes reach 8.0
• Puerto Rico: Dengue fever outbreak
• Venezuela: Hugo Chaves gains power to rule by decree

Asia

• Bangladesh: Cyclone Sidr kills nearly 3500, typhoons
• China: Earthquake, Ballistic missle tests, bridge collapses
  Hong Kong begins adopting anti-smoking laws
• East Timor: President Ramos-Horta names activist Xanana Gusmaõ prime minister of East Timor,
• India: Cholera outbreak
  India and US reach accord to improve India’s nuclear power
  First female president Prathiba Patil
  Bombings continue
  Durinder Singh Bajwa of Delhi fell off balcony while warding off monkeys – died
• Indonesia: Earthquake
• Japan: Quake in Kuril Islands
  Scientists with US and Japan announce formula to re-energize cells into stem cells,
  Quake kills seven resulting in damage to nuclear power station with 300 gallon radioactive water leak and tsunami
  Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe resigns amid scandals – Yasuo Fukuda elected
• Kampuchea: Nuon Chea of Khmer Rouge arrested and charged with war crimes
• Laos: Earthquake
• Myanmar: Burmese government shoots at demonstrators including monks
• North Korea: Government agrees to nuclear disclosure in exchange for funds
• Philippines: Shopping mall explosion
• South Korea: Ban Ki-moon becomes UN Secretary General
• Vietnam: Cholera outbreak

Europe

• General: hurricane-force winds in Western Europe
• Belarus: Dispute with Russia over energy
• Bosnia: Internation Court of Justice rules slaughter of Muslims by Serbs was genocide
• Bulgaria: Joins European Union
• Finland: Jokela school shooting leaves eight dead
• France: Conservative Nicholas Sarkozy defeats socialists and Jacques Chirac
• Great Britain: Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as Prime Minister
  Extensive flooding
  Earthquake in Kent
  Kevin Whitrick commits suicide on live webcam
• Greece: Worst heatwave in a century
• Hungary: Heat wave kills 500
• Ireland: Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Reverend Ian Paisley meet for the first time in person
• Molucca Sea: Earthquake
• Portugal: Earthquake
• Romania: Joins European Union
• Russia: President Putin suspends 1990 Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty
  Alliance with Iran re-declared
  Valley of Geysers destroyed by mudflow
  Oil spill off Kiev (Ukraine)
  Earthquake in Tartar Strait
• Slovenia: Euro adopted
• Ukraine: President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves Parliament

Middle East

• Afghanistan: War continues
• Iran: Troops detain British in waters
  Continuation of nuclear program despite sanctions
• Iraq: Start US surge of troops
  Car bombings
  Blackwater security kills 17
  Cholera outbreak
• Lebanon: Conflict
• Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf reelected – Benazir Bhutto returns after 8 years in exile – constitution suspended while stacked courts uphold Musharraf – former prime minister Nawaz Sharif returns to demand civil justice – Musharraf steps down from military and is sworn in as president – Benazir Bhutto killed in bombing
• Palestine: Leaders of Hamas and Fatah meet in Mecca and reach deal to unite - Hamas takes control of most of Gaza strip and declares state of emergency by firing prime minister
• Turkey: Abdullah Gul elected president as first Islamic president in modern history
• United Arab Emirates: Burj Dubai becomes world's largest tower

Pacific

• Australia: Storms kill 20
  David Hicks pleads guilty to providing aid to al Qaeda,
  Prime Minister John Howard loses to Kevin Rudd
• Fiji: Earthquake
• Mariana Trench: Earthquake
• New Zealand: Earthquake
• Solomon Islands: 8.1 earthquake and tsunami
• Vanatu: Earthquake

President:

Pres: George W. Bush

General

• Culture: "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse among most popular songs
• Energy: Bush signs energy bill to increase mpg to 35 by 2020
  Supreme court rules EPA can regulate auto emissions of CO2 and it ought to do so
• Finance: Dow high of 14164
  start of increases of minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25
  Housing market slumps and sub-prime lending bail-out begins
• Military: General Petraeus testifies on Iraq showing that more time is needed
  Bush and Congress battle over funding for war
  Walter Reed Medical Center shown to be substandard and inadequate
• Politics: AL Gore wins Nobel Prize
  Resignation of Alberto Gonzales after refusing to testify against Bush and Michael Mukasey appointed as attorney general
  Lewis "Scooter" Libby found guilty of lying to FBI
  CA Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes first woman Speaker of the House
• Science: Teacher Barbara Morgan travels on space shuttle Endeavor
• Sports: Baseball steroid use investigated
  Americans retake competitive hotdog eating competition from Japanese

East

• New York: Broadway stagehands strike
  Steampipe bursts at rush hour killing one by heart attack
• Pennsylvania: Child in Philadelphia floods airway with foam by pushing "do not push" button

Midwest

• Kansas: Greensburg destroyed by tornado
• Minnesota: Bridge collapse over Mississippi
• Nebraska: Omaha mall shooting
• Ohio: Cleveland school shooting

South

• Texas: Major flooding
• Virginia: Virginia Tech shooting

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Earthquake
• Two media helicopters crash
• California: Hollywood writers strike
  Frosts destroy part of citrus crop in January
  Major fires ravage between Mexican border and Los Angeles
  Oil spill in San Francisco harbor
  San Diego Zoo tiger kills one
  Jennifer Strange of Sacramento dies of water intoxication by drinking for a contest
  Humberto Hernandez hit by airborne fire hydrant in freak car accident
• Colorado: Two church shootings by same person on same day
• Nevada: School bus shootings in Las Vegas
• Oregon: Major flooding along coast
• Utah: Nine die in mine collapse
  Six die in Trolley Sqauare shootings
  Bear attack in spring
  U of U scientist wins Nobel Prize
• Washington: Tacoma Narrows second span opens to the public

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley

Membership: 13,193,199

Temples: 124

Other

• Population reaches 13 million
• LDS Governor Mitt Romney runs for Republican Presidential candidates – is front-runner in Iowa, but loses
• Church humanitarian services to tsunami victims
• Millionth missionary has served
• Tongan temple rededication
• Tabernacle rededicated after renovation