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Phyllis Diane Padgen
2/28/1962 - 1/12/2007
(Shown at age 30)

Phyllis Diane Padgen was born on February 28, 1962 in Pontiac, Michigan and died on January 12, 2007 in Panama City, Florida. She lived to be 44 years old.

Married 9/27/1977 in Panama City, FL, divorced in 1992.

	Other	1/1/1992	FL	29 yrs old
	Tony Ray Halley divorced Phyllis Diane Padgen Halley in 1992.

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Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during Phyllis Padgen's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of Phyllis, her family, and friends. For example, Phyllis is 4 years old when The Black Panther party is founded.

Age	Date	Event
17	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
3	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
9	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
12	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
13	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
17	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
19	1981	AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
24	1986	Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
27	1989	An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
28	1990	Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.
32	1994	The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter
35	1997	First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet.
36	1998	Construction begins on the International Space Station.
38	2000	Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s.
42	2004	March 2, 2004 - Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) confirms to NASA that the area of their landing was once covered in water.

Age	Date	Event
1	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
7	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.
8	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.
15	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
22	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.
30	1992	NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".
38	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.
38	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.
38	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.
38	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.
38	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.
39	2001	NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers.
39	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.
40	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.
41	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.
41	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.
41	2003	April 9, 2003 - The U.S. coalition siezes control of Baghdad in the Iraq conflict.
42	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.
43	2005	United States labor is squeezed by global forces and the United States economy continues to decline.
43	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.
43	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.)

Age	Date	Event
5	1967	Race riots struck the city of Detroit. After 5 days of rioting, 43 people lay dead, 1,189 injured and over 7,000 people had been arrested. The riot had lasting effects on the entire metro region and is usually cited as one of the reasons the Detroit area is among the most segregated areas in the United States. 1974 Gerald R. Ford
12	1974	Gerald R. Ford of Grand Rapids became the 38th President of the United States.
25	1987	Michigan celebrated 150 years of statehood.
39	2001	The emigration rate for Michigan began to exceed the immigration rate.
40	2002	Michigan elects its first female governor, Jennifer Granholm (D)
44	2006	Between 2006 through mid-2010, Michigan has the worst unemployment rate of any state, peaking at over 15%, due to the Auto industry crisis and the general financial crisis.

Age	Date	Event
4	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
5	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.
9	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
10	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
11	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
15	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
19	1981	Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
25	1987	January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
25	1987	President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
27	1989	George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
31	1993	Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)
32	1994	O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.
35	1997	A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history.
37	1999	United States budget goes into surplus.
39	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)
42	2004	National Museum of the American Indian is established in Washington DC.
42	2004	National Museum of the American Indian is established on the mall in Washington DC.
42	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.
44	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.

Age	Date	Event
27	1989	The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
28	1990	Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
30	1992	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
31	1993	South Africa accepts racial equality.
34	1996	Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection
37	1999	Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained.
38	2000	China begins to emerge as an economic giant.
38	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.
39	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
39	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.
39	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.
39	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.
40	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.
40	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.
40	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.
41	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.
44	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.
45	2007	The world climate and ocean temperatures continue to rise. Both polar caps are shrinking at a record breaking rate.
45	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.

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