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Lynn Thomas Lowe 72
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 68

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 45
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 44
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 53
Debra Eileen Lowe 38
Michelle Ann Lowe 36
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 34
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 31

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood (Dean) 24
Md: David Dean
Jeremy Scott Atwood 20
Michael Evan Johnson 10
Alena Ann Hatfield 5
Vivienne Marie Hatfield 2

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Athena Lyn Dean 2

General:

Population: 6.85 Billion - UN reports 7 billion about October 31

• Business: Microsoft buys Internet phone company Skype
• Fashion: Christian Dior fires designer John Galliano after his "I love Hitler" remark recorded on a video
• Finance: World food prices rise
• Medicine: Reported link between autism and vaccines shown faulty in UK study
  Artificial windpipe coated with stem cells transplanted
• Science: Scientists discover over 1200 new planets outside the solar system bringing number over 1800
  Possible discovery of water on Mars
  Mission to Jupiter launched
• UN cultural agency UNESCO grants membership to Palestine over US threats
• Deaths: Jack LaLanne, Robert "Sarge" Shriver, Jane Russell, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Ferarro, Osama Bin Laden, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Amy Winehouse, Betty Ford, Václav Havel, Kim Jong Il, Steve Jobs, Wrestler Randy Savage, Peter Falk, American Terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, Muammar Gaddafi, Prince Sultan of Saudi Arabia (Crown Prince, Boxer Joe Frazier, Writer Anne McCaffrey, Actor Harry Morgan

Africa

• Algeria: Discusses lifting "State of Emergency" in place for 19 years
• Central Africa: US sends 100 troups to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army
• Egypt: 18 days of riots and protests result in overthrow of 30-year government of President Mubarak, 365 dead
  Constitution suspended and parliament dissolved
  Assassination attempt on vice president fails but kills two bodyguards
  President in captivity suffers heart attack - alive
  Reopening border with Gaza
• Ivory Coast: Riots
  President Gbagbo surrenders
• Kenya: Petrol pipeline explodes killing 100
• Libya: Protests and riots kill many, UN votes to sanction Libya and Gadhafi
  US sends troops and over 191,000 evacuate
  NATO enforces no-fly zone
  NATO airstrikes kill Qadaffi's son, then Qaddafi killed
• Somalia: Pirates hijack US yacht and kill four Bible distributors
  Pirates capture yacht with seven Danes
  Famine
  100 die in car bombing in Mogadishu
• Sudan: Christian southern Sudan votes to secede from Muslim northern Sudan
• Tunisia: Riots and overthrow of 60-year government - Prime Minister takes control, later announces resignation
• Zanzibar: 240 die when Zanzibar ferry sinks

Americas

• Argentina: 6.9 quake leaves no damage
• Brazil: Mudslides and flooding kill over 900
  School shooting in Rio kills 13
• Canada: Forest fires in Alberta
• Chile: Quakes off coast 7.1 and 7.0 - no deaths
  Eruption of Puyehue volcano force air traffic cancellations
• Colombia: Landslides and flooding continue
• Haiti: Exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns
• Mexico: 50 bodies found in mass grave - drug cartel likely
• Peru: 6.9 quake

Asia

• General: India and Bangladesh sign pact to end border dispute
• Burma: 7.0 Quake
• Cambodia: Floods along Mekong River kill over 200
• China: Protests
• Indonesia: Outbreak of Leptosporidium
• Japan: Bird flu outbreak
  Mt. Shinmoe erupts
  7.2 Quake
  9.0 quake causes massive tsunami and breakdown of nuclear reactors - death toll over 18,000
  Aftershocks and quakes over 7.0 in the following months
  Nuclear threat raised to most severe at Fukushima Nuclear plant
• North Korea: Dictator Kim Jong Il dies
• Philippines: ropical Storm Washi kills over 1000
• Sri Lanka: Floods and mudslides kill at least 27
• Thailand: over 650 die in floods caused by monsoon

Europe

• General: Cold wave sweeps continent
  E coli outbreak
  Financial collapse/problems with the Euro
• France: Explosion at Marcoule nuclear plant
• Germany: Gunman kills two US military personnel
• Greece: Financial bailout
• Great Britain: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited to Sweden for accusation of sex crimes
  Prince William marries Catherine Middleton
• Italy: Premier Silvio Berlusconi stands trial for hiring underage girl for sex, promises to step down
  Severe financial problems
• Norway: Lone gunman kills 76 in Oslo with bombing and masacre at youth camp
• Portugal: Bailout by European Union
• Russia: President Medvedev ratifies START treaty limiting nuclear weapons - first in 20 years
  31 killed in Moscow airport explosion
• Spain: Basque minority ends violence

Middle East

• General: Evidence of Google supporting riots in middle-east
  "Arab Spring" overthrows regimes
• Iraq: Conflict continues despite US withdrawal of combat troops - "End" of war
• Iran: Riots
  Experimentation with refining nuclear material
• Israel: Palestinian missile hits Israeli bus
• Jordan: Protests and riots - king appoints new Prime Minister
• Lebanon: Government collapses as Hezbollah bloc forces resignation
  Celebrations follow Egyptian revolt
• Oman: Riots
• Pakistan: 7.3 earthquake
  Floods kill over 430
• Saudi Arabia: Threats of unrest eased with influx of money from king
  Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz dies
• Syria: Protests
• Turkey: 7.2 quake near Van kills over 600
• Yemen: Civil unrest and protests in "Friday of Rage"
  President steps down, relents, is wounded

Pacific

• Australia: Massive flooding throughout country - at least 25 die and 200,000 homeless
  Cyclone hits near Queensland
• New Zealand: Earthquake measuring 6.3 kills between 98 and 300, then 7.8 quake

President:

Pres: Barack H. Obama

General

• Business: Comcast takes over NBC Universal
• Crime: Rep. Tom Delay imprisoned for money laundering
  Senator John Edwards indicted for money laundering
• Finance: Recession continues with high unemployment
  Food and gas prices increase
  Gold reaches record over $1850 an ounce from 1388 at start of year
  "Double-dip recession" as stocks crash
  Credit rating falls
  "Rule 48" employed to manage trading
• Law: Supreme Court allows Westboro Baptist's right to hold anti-gay protests at funerals
• Military: Navy Commander discharged over inappropriate video using profanity and slurs against homosexuals
  Oldest WWI veteran dies
  Over 20 Navy Seals die in Afghanistan crash
• Politics: Change in policy toward Israel as Pres. Obama calls for divided state
  Increased tension between political parties
  Representative Anthony Weiner resigns following sexual photograph scandal
  Bankruptcy of Solyndra shows poorly spent funds
• Science: End of space shuttle program
• Weather: Snow in 49 states (including Hawaii) in January
  Extreme year for tornadoes

East

• General: Extreme snowfall along east coast early in year
  Earthquake centered in Virginia registers 5.8
• New York: Garbage piled in streets (along with snow) stops suicide that jumped from 19th floor
  13 killed when tour bus overturns in Bronx - problems with all tour bus lines found
  8 killed by unnamed serial killer - bodies buried on Long Island beach
  Gay marriage legalized
• Pennsylvania: 100,000 evacuated along Susquehanna River for flooding

Midwest

• General: Flooding along Mississippi, Tornadoes
• Illinois: Former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel elected Chicago mayor
• Indiana: Elementary school shooting
• Michigan: Seven die in related shooting incidences
• Missouri: Levee near Poplar Bluff fails
  F5 hurricane destroys a third of Joplin killing 142
• Ohio: Protests from unions
  Younstown State University shooting
  Retired autoworker John Demjanjuk found guilty of being a Nazi accomplice
• Wisconsin: Uprising from labor unions especially teachers - Democrats flee the state to prevent voting on bill - warrant for their arrest - Remaining government limits collective bargaining of govt. workers

South

• General: Over 340 die in extremely deadly tornado outbreak, especially Alabama - Flooding along Mississippi river
• Alabama: Dead blackbirds and fish
  Deadly tornado outbreak
• Arkansas: Killer tornadoes
• Florida: Judge rules health care law unconstitutional
  70 trapped in hangar after tornado
• Oklahoma: Killer tornado
• Louisiana: Morganza spillway into the Achafalaya opens for first time in 38 years to reduce Mississippi River flooding
• Texas: FBI arrests Saudi national suspected in bombing plot to blow up home of former President George W. Bush
  Four toddlers die in fire
  Six months of fires
  Mass grave discovered
  Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs imprisoned for child rape

West and Pacific

• Alaska: Earthquake
• Arizona: Shooting of U.S. Representative and killing of nine leads to national day or mourning
  Iraqi immigrant convicted in "honor killing" of daughter
  Countersuit against US government for failure to enforce immigration laws
• California: Tsunami from Japan kills one
  Hollywood arsons near Christmas
• Nevada: Nine die and 75 injured in air show crash
  IHOP shooting kills 5
• Utah: Re-emergence of Pertussis (Whooping cough) and measles
  Small quakes near Saratoga Springs
  Death threats against local congressman over immigration legislation
• Washington: Anarchists riot

President

Pres: Thomas S. Monson

Membership: 14,441,346

Temples: 136

135. San Salvador El Salvador
136. Quetzaltenango Guatemala

Other

• Elder Komatsu, first General Authority of Japanese descent dies a few weeks before Japanese quake and tsunami
• BYU basketball player Jimmer Fredette named player of the year
• Missionaries evacuated from, then return to Japan
• First full stake in Russia - Moscow
• Two LDS candidates for president - Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney
• Secular comedy musical "Book of Mormon Musical" causes some offense, some interest
• Aid to Australia, new Zealand, Colombia, Brazil, Philippines, and US in addition to Japan
• 150 million Books of Mormon pulished (82 languages complete plus 25 partial)