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Robert Todd Bright
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Robert Todd Bright 10/1/1964 - 9/15/2017 (Shown at age 17)
| Robert Todd Bright was born on October 1, 1964 in Panama City, Bay County, Florida and died on September 15, 2017 in Parker, Bay County, Florida. He lived to be 52 years old.
He married Gladys. Children: Giulia Bright Bobby B. Bright |
| Newspaper | 9/15/2017 | Parker FL (Bay County) | 52 yrs old | Robert Todd Bright, 52, of Parker, FL passed away on Friday September 15, 2017.
He was born on October 1, 1964 in Panama City, FL to Franklin and Frances Bright. He was a former employee of Eastern Ship Building.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Frances Price Bright; niece, Morgan; nephew, Joshua. He is survived by his wife, Gladys Bright; one daughter, Giulia Bright; one son, Bobby B. Bright; father, Frank Bright Sr. (Madge); three sisters, Sonya Wagner (Bob), Celia Bush (Brian), Wendy Bright (Alan); one brother, Frank Bright (Mary); numerous of nieces, nephews and friends.
Memorial service will be held on Friday September 22, 2017 at 3 pm at Callaway Baptist Church with Pastor Jessie Dasher, Rev. Donnie Smith and Rev. Hugh Redmon officiating. The family will receive friends at the church from 2-3 pm prior to the service. Honorary pallbearers will be Chuck Childers, Joey Kolmetz, Frank Bright, Chris Bright and Alan Trageser.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorial donations be made to Covenant Care Hospice, 107 West 19th Street Panama City, FL 32405 in memory of Robert Todd Bright. |
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Robert, his family, and friends. For example, Robert is 2 years old when The Black Panther party is founded.
Age | Date | Event |
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1979 |
The sovereign status of the Seminole Indian Tribe allows it to establish the first gambling establishment in FL. It is a bingo hall located on their Hollywood, FL reservation. |
Age | Date | Event |
1 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
7 |
1971 |
The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union |
10 |
1974 |
Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright |
11 |
1975 |
Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography) |
15 |
1979 |
First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination |
17 |
1981 |
AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space. |
22 |
1986 |
Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher. |
25 |
1989 |
An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth |
26 |
1990 |
Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993. |
30 |
1994 |
The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter |
33 |
1997 |
First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet. |
34 |
1998 |
Construction begins on the International Space Station. |
36 |
2000 |
Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s. |
40 |
2004 |
March 2, 2004 - Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) confirms to NASA that the area of their landing was once covered in water. |
46 |
2010 |
CERN scientist trap anti-matter for the first time. |
Age | Date | Event |
5 |
1969 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface. |
6 |
1970 |
NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest. |
13 |
1977 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time. |
20 |
1984 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft. |
28 |
1992 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets". |
36 |
2000 |
June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event. |
36 |
2000 |
November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore. |
36 |
2000 |
December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure. |
36 |
2000 |
The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri. |
36 |
2000 |
April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete. |
37 |
2001 |
April 8, 2001 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles simulteneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This followed a remarkable run in 2000 when Woods claimed victory at the final three majors of that season; the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship. |
37 |
2001 |
NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers. |
38 |
2002 |
February 8, 2002 - Amid tight security due to terrorism concerns, the Winter Olympic Games are opened by President George W. Bush in Salt Lake City, Utah. They would continue without major incident until the closing ceremony on February 24. |
39 |
2003 |
February 1, 2003 - A tragedy at NASA occurs when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas. All seven astronauts inside are killed. |
39 |
2003 |
April 9, 2003 - The U.S. coalition siezes control of Baghdad in the Iraq conflict. |
39 |
2003 |
December 13, 2003 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, is captured in a small bunker in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. General fear of terrorism begins to subside. |
40 |
2004 |
February 3, 2004 - The Central Intelligence Agency admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction (which justified the war on Iraq) was not present before the 2003 Iraq war began. |
41 |
2005 |
July 26, 2005 - In the first Space Shuttle flight since the tragedy of 2003, Discovery goes into orbit on a mission that returns to earth safely on August 9. |
41 |
2005 |
August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast, inundating the city of New Orleans with water from Lake Pontchetrain when the levees that maintain the below sea level city break. Over one thousand three hundred people perish from Alabama to Louisiana in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. (Picture Below: Damage across the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.) |
41 |
2005 |
United States labor is squeezed by global forces and the United States economy continues to decline. |
47 |
2011 |
March 15, 2011 - Largest recorded earthquake hits Japan and everyone watches the horrifying scenes as survivors post videos taken with their cell phones on YouTube. |
Age | Date | Event |
2 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
3 |
1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
7 |
1971 |
Charles Manson is found guilt of murder. |
8 |
1972 |
Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal. |
9 |
1973 |
The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam. |
13 |
1977 |
Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president. |
17 |
1981 |
Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican) |
23 |
1987 |
President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles. |
23 |
1987 |
January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County. |
25 |
1989 |
George Bush is elected president. (Republican) |
29 |
1993 |
Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat) |
30 |
1994 |
O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch. |
33 |
1997 |
A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history. |
35 |
1999 |
United States budget goes into surplus. |
37 |
2001 |
George W. Bush is elected president. He is the son of George Bush who served as president from 1989-1993. He will serve two terms. (Republican) |
40 |
2004 |
National Museum of the American Indian is established on the mall in Washington DC. |
40 |
2004 |
November 2, 2004 - President George W. Bush wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. He wins 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 votes in the Electoral College. |
40 |
2004 |
National Museum of the American Indian is established in Washington DC. |
42 |
2006 |
December 1, 2006 - United States manufacturing capacity and esteem wanes, signalled by the sale of the last shares of his General Motors stock by U.S. billionaire Kirk Kerkorian. |
44 |
2008 |
October 3, 2008 - The United States Congress passes legislation, signed by President Bush, for a $700 billion bailout, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, giving the Treasury Department authority to assist distressed Wall Street and banking businesses of the United States due to the housing, banking, and subprime mortgage crises caused by excessive greed and speculation among Wall Street firms. This economic distress, coupled with oil prices above $140 per barrel during the summer, deepened the world economic crises that had been brewing all year. The bailout was supported by current President George W. Bush and both presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. |
44 |
2008 |
A major financial crisis and recession begins in earnest. |
45 |
2009 |
Health care reforms initiated by the new US President, Obama, gives birth to the 'Tea Party' movement. |
45 |
2009 |
October 31, 2009 - The economic recession continues to deepen as jobless claims climb above 10.0%, reaching 10.2% with October's monthly figures. This occurs despite efforts by the Obama administration to ramp up massive government spending pushed by the $780 billion economic stimulus package passed earlier in the year. |
53 |
2017 |
Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. |
Age | Date | Event |
25 |
1989 |
The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany |
26 |
1990 |
Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War. |
28 |
1992 |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed. |
29 |
1993 |
South Africa accepts racial equality. |
32 |
1996 |
Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection |
35 |
1999 |
Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained. |
36 |
2000 |
Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010. |
36 |
2000 |
China begins to emerge as an economic giant. |
37 |
2001 |
September 18, 2001 - Anthrax attacks by mail from Princeton, New Jersey against news and government targets begin. Federal officials announce the first case on October 4. World wide concern about terrorism continues to escalate. |
37 |
2001 |
October 7, 2001 - In response to the tragedy of September 11, the United States military, with participation from its ally the United Kingdom, commence the first attack in the War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By November 12, the Taliban government leaves the capital, Kabul. |
37 |
2001 |
September 11, 2001 - 911 - Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C., supposed to be the White House or the Capitol building. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden. |
37 |
2001 |
April 1, 2001 - China-U.S. incident. An American spyplane collides with a fighter plane of China and makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for ten days |
38 |
2002 |
November 21, 2002 - NATO invites additional members of the former Soviet bloc to join its membership. Seven nations are included in the invitation; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. |
38 |
2002 |
November 8, 2002 - The United Nations passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face serious consequences. |
38 |
2002 |
May 21, 2002 - The United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror. It states that there are seven nations that a State-Sponsors: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. |
39 |
2003 |
March 19, 2003 - The War in Iraq begins with the bombing of Baghdad after additional measures and mandates from the United Nations and the United States coalition fail to gain concessions or the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. The U.S. coalition, upon failure to extract authority from the U.N. for action due to the veto power of France, begin land operations one day later with participation from U.S., British, Australian, and Polish troops. |
42 |
2006 |
February 22, 2006 - In a continuing shift of the retail industry to new platforms, the one billionth song is downloaded from the internet music store, Apple iTunes. This shift comes at the expense of many brick and mortar chains, including Tower Records. The trend of purchasing items via the internet, instead of local stores, continues to grow. |
43 |
2007 |
January 10, 2007 - President George W. Bush announces a troop surge of 21,500 for the war in Iraq to stem the violence at the request of new commander General Petreus. This controversial policy begins to show positive signs once fully implemented during the summer months, with a reduction in violent attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. Progress on the political front within the Iraqi national government, however, does not keep pace with positive developments on the military front. |
43 |
2007 |
The world climate and ocean temperatures continue to rise. Both polar caps are shrinking at a record breaking rate. |
44 |
2008 |
November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln, wins a landslide margin in the Electoral College, 365 to 173 in the election for the 44th President of the USA over John McCain, making him the first African-American president in the history of the United States of America. |
46 |
2010 |
April 20, 2010 - A British Petroleum deep water oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, killing eleven workers, and devastating the envirnoment. It also severely damaged the fishing and tourism industries of gulf states. |
47 |
2011 |
March 15, 2011 - The largest recorded earthquake hits Japan followed by a huge tsunami. Three nucular power plants are danaged and remain in critical status for the next six weeks. Manufacturing plants in Japan can no longer produce and impacts the world economy. |
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