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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the co-founder, created Microsoft on September 24, 1977.
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A year after they found Microsoft, they exceeded 1 billion dollars.
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Bill Gates becomes the youngest billonaire ever, and meets his wife Melinda French at a Microsoft event in New York.
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Gates speaks in Redmond, Washington at the launch of Microsoft Windows 95. That day Internet Explorer was introduced to the world.
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In January 2000, Bill Gates stepped down and created chief software architect in 2001.
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Bill and Melinda Gates establish the Gates Foundation. The Gates Foundation helps kids around the world.
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Bill Gates finally said that he wanted to focus on his foundation so he resigned from his chief software architect.
