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Lynn Thomas Lowe 70
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 66

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 43
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 42
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 51
Debra Eileen Lowe 36
Michelle Ann Lowe 34
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 32
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 29

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood (Dean) 22
Md: David Dean
Jeremy Scott Atwood 18
Michael Evan Johnson 8
Alena Ann Hatfield 3
Vivienne Marie Hatfield born

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Athena Lyn Dean born

General

Population: 6.78 Billion

• Swine Flu scare
• Russian and American satellites collide
• G20 summit in Pittsburgh replaces G8 as head of financial concerns

Africa

• Guinea-Bissau: President Vieira assassinated
• Somalia: Somalie pirates take US ship captive - pirates killed in rescue
• West Africa: Memingitis outbreak
• Zimbabwe: Cholera outbreak

Americas

• Bolivia: Dengue fever outbreak, Self-government for indigenous people
• Canada: Folk singer Taylor Mitchell attacked and killed by two coyotes,

Asia

• China: Conflict with Uighurs
• India: Hepatitis B outbreak
• North Korea: Female journalists from US captured, Rocket launched over Pacific
• South Korea: 3 month old Kim Sa-rang dies of malnutrition as parents spend hours raising virtual child in online game
• Taiwan: Typhoon kills 500 in worst flooding in 50 years

Europe

• General: Treaty of Lisbon becomes European law
• Great Britain: Allegations of fraud and poor research regarding global warming
• Greenland: Moves toward independence from Denmark by setting up government
• Iceland: Banking system and government collapse
• Ireland: Mumps outbreak
• Italy: Earthquake kills 300
• Russia: Nightclub explosion kills at least 100
  Sergey Tuganov bets two women he could have sex with them for twelve hours - wins the bet but suffers heart attack due to injecting full bottle of Viagra
• Scotland: Release of the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds
• Switzerland: Hadron collider restarts
• Ukraine: Student Vladimir Likhonos accidentally dips gum into explosives rather than citric acid and blows jaw off and dies
• Vatican City: Pope knocked down at Christmas Mass

Middle East

• Afghanistan: war continues
• Iraq: Bombings continue in middle east, US Army sergeant opens fire killing five
• Iran: Death of protester Neda Agha-Soltan captured on video
• Israel: Invasion of Gaza Strip - two weeks of conflict
• Pakistan: Sri Lankan cricket players killed by gunmen
• UAE: Dubai asks for deferment of loans

Pacific

• Australia: Dengue fever outbreak, deadliest bushfires kill 200 in Victoria
• Samoa: Earthquake and tsunami kill 189 and destroy cities
• Sumatra: 7.6 quake kills 1,000 in Indonesia

President:

Pres: George W. Bush
Pres: Barack H. Obama inaugurated

General

• Crime: Bernard "Bernie" Madoff convicted of enormous Ponzi scheme swindling, Sailor charged with murder JOnathan Campos asphyxiates self with toilet paper while incarcerated
• Finance: Federal stimulus "bailout" package of nearly a trillion dollars passes, Senate raises debt ceiling, rising unemployment, Dow hits post-1997 low of 6547, "Cash for Clunkers" program, Controversy over AIG and bailouts – millions paid to a few at top of company,
• Health: Swine Flu virus scare (H1N1), Salmonella outbreak in peanuts
• Media: Large newspapers begins to shut down, analog television ends
• Politics: President Barack Obama receives Nobel Prize for peace, Democrats gain 60 seats in Senate, TEA Party and 9-12 Project protests begin
• Science: NASA crashes rocket into moon to search for water
• Sports: Tiger Woods in car accident and cheating exposed
• Terrorism: Christmas Day bombing of US jet credited to Al Qaeda
• Deaths: Savant Kim Peek, Biologist Edwin Krebs, Actor Patrick Swayze, Evangelist Oral Roberts, Senator Ted Kennedy, Musician Les Paul, News anchor Walter Cronkite, Singer Michael Jackson

East

• New Jersey: 30 people including two mayors arrested for corruption
• New York: Pilot "Sully" Sullenberger crashes plane into the Hudson River - all saved, Air Force One and fighter jet fly over Manhattan causing panic
  9 year old Damori Miles dies while jumping from apartment building using homemade parachute

Midwest

• Illinois: Governor Rod Blagojevich implicated in selling senate seat, Chicago Cubs files for bankruptcy
• Iowa: Same-sex marriage legalized
• Michigan: Nigerian Al Qaeda member attempts to detonate plastic explosives in underwear on plane.
• Nebraska: Diane Durre dies when Taco Bell sign falls on her

South

• Texas: 11 killed in shootings at Fort Hood Texas when Muslim American goes on rampage

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Mount Redoubt erupts, Sarah Palin resigns as governor with concerns of frivolous investigations
• California: Miss California Carrie Prejean stripped of her crown for breach of contrack and speaking out against same-sex marriage
• Colorado: Balloon Boy incident – faked case of son floating off in home-made balloon
• Utah: Refinery explosion damages homes in North Salt Lake
• Washington: Four police officers murdered

President

Pres: Thomas S. Monson

Membership: 13,824,854

Temples

129. Draper Utah
130. Oquirrh Mountain Utah

Other

• Aid for tsunami victims in Samoa
• "The LDS Channel" begins on iTunes plus new websites and features
• Swahili branch created in Salt Lake City
• LDS law professor Larry EchoHawk of the Pawnee Nation becomes responsible for Native American Affairs department