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William Henry Gates III (Bill Gates)was born.
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Gates is enrolled at Lakeside School, Seattle.
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Runs through the university’s most hard mathematics and graduate level computer science courses.
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Gates called MITS, the maker of the world's 1st personal computer.
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Gates and Allen register the trademark "Microsoft."
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He takes a second leave of absence from Harvard and sets up Microsoft.
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At age 31, Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever.
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Gates founds Corbis, an archive of art and photography.
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Gates weds French, the couple goes on to have three children.
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Gates becomes the world’s richest man.
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Gates publishes another best-selling book, Business @ the Speed of Thought.
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Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft.
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Gates graduates from Harvard; the university awards him with an honorary degree.
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Gates loses his spot as the richest man on the planet.
