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History

2012

Generations

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Lynn Thomas Lowe 73
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 69

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 46
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 45
Ronald Evan Johnson 54
Debra Eileen Lowe 39
Michelle Ann Lowe 37
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 35
Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 32

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood (Dean) 25
David Dean
Jeremy Scott Atwood 21
Michael Evan Johnson 11
Alena Ann Hatfield 6
Vivienne Marie Hatfield 3

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Athena Lyn Dean 3

World

General:

Population: Approximately 7 billion

Chronology: End of Mayan long calendar fuels speculation over "end of world"
Education: Encyclopaedia Britannica discontinued in print form
Environment: "Lonesome George" the last Pinta Island Tortoise dies
Medicine: Bionic eye implanted
Science: CERN announces discovery of Higgs boson
Curiosity rover lands on Mars
Wars: Middle East in conflicts
Arab Spring leads to conflicts
Terrorism in September in several countries
Deaths: Whitney Houston, Singer Davy Jones, Newsman Andrew Breitbart, Reporter Mike Walace, Media guru Dick Clark, Stylist Vidal Sassoon, Political wife Mary Kennedy, Singer Donna Summer, Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, Singer Robin Gibb, Writer Ray Bradbury, Saudi prince Nayif Abdulaziz, Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Egyptian Leader Hosni Mubarak, Victim Rodney King, Actor Andy Griffith, Leadership speaker Steven Covey, Astronaut Sally Ride, Actor Ernest Borgnine, Politician George McGovern, Actor Sherman Hemsley, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Actor Larry Hagman, Boxer Ernest Camacho, Politician Arlen Specter, Performer Andy Williams, "Green Mile" actor Michael Clarke Duncan, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Phyllis Diller, Commentator Gore Vidal, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Actor Jack Klugman, Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, Senator Daniel Inouye, First president of East Timor Francisco Xavier do Armaral, Sitarist Ravi Shankar

Africa

Congo: Explosions am munitions dumk kill at least 250
Egypt: Parliament dissolved by military, Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi wins election
79 or more killed in soccer match
Guinea-Bissau: Leaders ousted in coup
Liberia: Former president found guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone Civil War
Libya: Prime minister dismissed
Attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi ends with ambassador and others killed
Mali: President ousted in coup
Nigeria: Assailants kill many in bombings and gunfire
Plane crashes in Lagos killing 150
Sudan: US Maries deployed to secure embassy

Americas

Argentina: 40 killed in train crash
Canada: 7.7 magnitude quake off western coast
Chile: Quake
Costa Rica: 7.9 Quake, 6.6 Quake
El Salvador: 7.4 quake off coast
Guatemala: 7.4 quake kills at least 15
Honduras: Prison fire kills 272- 360
Mexico: 7.9 quake near Acapulco
Outgoing president proposes removing "Estados Unidos" from name of country
Venezuela: Hugo Chaves reelected

Asia

Bangladesh: Over 100 die at textile factory fire
Burma: 6.6 Quake
China: Blind activist Chen Guangcheng flees to US
6.3 Quake
School knife attack injures 23
Spacecraft successfully docks with orbiting module
India: Worst power outage in world history leaves 620 million without power
Indonesia: 8.7 quake - no serious consequences
Japan: Quakes continue with some as large as 7.3
North Korea: Satellite explodes after launch
Successful, long-range missle fired
Papua New Guinea: Earthquake
Philippines: 7.9 quake
Typhoon Bopha or "Pablo" kills at least 1067

Europe

General: Armenia and Hungary sever relations
Bulgaria: Bomb explodes on bus of Israeli tourists
England: BBC director resigns over false accusation of politician
France: Socialist François Hollande wins election
Germany: President Christian Wulff resigns in scandals
Greece: Financial collapse
Italy: Two quakes just under 6.0 in north
Russia: 7.7 quake hits off coast
Spain: Financial problems

Middle East

General: "Arab Spring" sees overthrow of many leaders
Afghanistan: After code-filled Korans are burned, Afghanis protest US occupation
Iran: Refining of uranium
Twin quakes magnitude 6.4 kill 306
Several countries from west cut ties over oil and Syrian plans
Israel: Attacks from West Bank rockets spur war with Hamas in November
Pakistan: Bojha Air jet crashes near Islamabad
Textile factory fire kills 300
New Years (2013) massacre at school
Garment factory fires kill 315
Palestine: UN grants observer status
Syria: Strife and civil conflict
Houla massacre with 108 killed by government - many countries withdraw diplomats
Chaos and war
Turkey: US deploys 400 troops to defend against threats from Syria
Yemen: Gunman shoots security chief at US Embassy

Pacific

Tonga: King George Tupou V dies

U.S. History

President:

Barack H. Obama reelected

General

Business: Lawsuits against Samsung by Apple over copyright
Chick-fil-A appreciation day after leftists call for boycott
Crime: Attorney General Holder held in contempt of congress, but his department refuses to prosecute, President issues Executive Privilege
US Commerce Secretary Bryson commits hit and run - possibly medical
Prostitution scandal with Secret Service in Colombia
Exploration: NASA lands probe and rover on Mars
Finance: Moody's downgrades 15 major US banks such as Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase
Unemployment remains above 8.2% (actually over 15% but with strange calculations)
Stock market continues roller-coaster pattern
National debt hits 16 trillion
Law: Supreme Court reviews health care law - declares constitutional tax
Supreme Court overrules Defense of Marriage Act
Supreme Court rules against regulation of profanity and nudity on broadcast television
Military: Ambassador and three in military die in attack on CIA safehouse in Benghazi, Libya after military told to stand down
Iran fires on U.S. drone
Politics: Obama circumvents courts and congress in several laws, such as immigration, same-sex marriage
General Petraus questioned in sex scandal
Questions about election ethics ensue
Boos at Democratic National Convention when proposal to re-instate God and Israel into platform
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hospitalized for blood clot in head
Ambassador J Christopher Stevens and other killed in attack on Libyan safehouse
Sports: 7 time winner of Tour de France Lance Armstron stripped of titles after doping accusations
Dare-devil athlete jumps from 24 miles above earth breaking sound barrier and lands safely

East

General: Severe summer storms leave three million without power
"Superstorm Sandy" kills over 100 due to massive flooding, power outages in NY and NJ
Connecticut: School shooting kills 27 including 20 young children
Maine: Legalization of euthanasia, gay marriage by popular vote
Massachusetts: Punctured pipe near strip club injures 18.
New Jersey: Federal agents raid mayor's home
New York: Van plunges into Bronx Zoo killing seven
Court declares Defense of Marriage Act (protecting traditional marriage) unconstitutional
Soft drinks over 16 oz outlawed in city
Rush hour shooting at Empire State Building
Firefighters shot responding to intentional house fire
Pennsylvania: Coach Joe Paterno dies within months of being fired of Coach Sandusky pedophilia case - Sandusky found guilty

Midwest

General: Severe summer storms leave millions without power
Indiana: F4 tornado strikes in early March in storm that hits 11 states killing about 37
Explosion in Indianapolis
Michigan: Right-to-work legislation proposed
Ohio: School shooting
Five arrested for conspiracy to blow up Cleveland bridge
Wisconsin: Governor Scott Walker becomes first politician in US history to survive recall election
Salon shooting kills 3
Sikh temple shooting kills one

South

Louisiana: Fire on oil rig kills several
North Carolina: Shooting at Fort Bragg kils one
Texas: Judge throws out case of father killing child's attempted rapist
Train hits float killing four veterans
Shootings at Texas A&M
Virginia: Second Virginia Tech shooting kills two

West and Pacific

Alaska: Several islands west of the Aleutians verified as belonging to Russia
Arizona: Supreme Court strikes down 3/4 parts of immigration law - says federal government has right
California: University shooting kills five
Shooting at Apple Valley Farms kills eight
Three cities declare bankruptcy
Colorado: Extreme wildfires
Movie theater shooting kills 12 with 59 injured
Legalization of recreational use of marijuana
Nevada: Tunnel collapse kills one, traps 18
Oregon: Three die after gun rampage at mall
Utah: Extreme wildfires
Washington: Former Utahn Josh Powell kills sons in fire - suspected to have killed wife two years before, father convicted of peeping on neighbor children
Legalized recreational marijuana and gay marriage