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Bill Gates is born
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Lifetime and Achievements
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Bill is enrolled at Lakeside
Lakeside school is a private school for very intelligent kids with excellent grades. This is a very prestigious school and is very good for a resume. He enrolled in seventh grade. -
Bill writes his first program.
Bill Gates makes a tic tac toe game on an old computer. This was a major first step towards programming computers to do things forever. -
Bill enters Harvard
This is a very prestigous Ivy League college that only the top students could attend. -
Microsoft Begins
Bill Gates and partner Paul Allen trademark Microsoft as an official business. This made computers and software for them. -
Bill drops out of Harvard University
Partner Paul Allen gave him an issue of "Popular Electronics" magazine and Bill saw a computer called the "Altair 8800", and he was hooked. "This was a very big decision, but I had to do it." said Bill Gates. -
Bill becomes yougest billionare ever
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Established
This is the charity that Bill and his wife founded to help underpriveleged children, fight disease, and give hungry people some food. -
Bill is named richest man in the world
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Bill Gates retires
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Bill has donated more than $28 billion to charity
This all went to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
