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Birth
William Henry "Bill" Gates III was born on October 26th, 1955 to William H. Gates II and Mary Maxwell Gates. He was born in Seattle's Swedish Hospital in Seattle, Washington. -
Prepatory School
At age 12, Bill Gates entered Lakeside School, a prepatory school. But in 8th grade, four students from Lakeside School (Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans), were banned from school for a year. -
Harvard
Bill Gates was accepted to Harvard as a pre-law major. He went through the University's most rigorous mathematicsa and graduated through level computer science courses. -
sets up microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the co-founder, created Microsoft on September 24, 1977. -
year end sales
A year after they found Microsoft, they exceeded 1 billion dollars. -
Billionaire
Bill Gates becomes the youngest billonaire ever, and meets his wife Melinda French at a Microsoft event in New York. -
Microsoft Windows 95
Gates speaks in Redmond, Washington at the launch of Microsoft Windows 95. That day Internet Explorer was introduced to the world. -
Steps down as Chief executive officer
In January 2000, Bill Gates stepped down and created chief software architect in 2001. -
Establishes Gates Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates establish the Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation helps kids around the world. -
Gates last day working for Microsoft
Bill Gates finally said that he wanted to focus on his foundation so he resigned from his chief software architect.
