Work

Cited: Demuth, P., & Hammond, T. (n.d.). Who is Bill Gates? (pp. 102-103)
1955

1957

1962

1968

1969

1973

1974

Bill Gates is born: October 28

Sputnik is sent into Orbit by the Soviet Union

Bill reads the entire World Book Encyclopedia series

Bill encounters his Rirst computer - a Teletype machine

Neil Amstrong is the Rirst person to walk on the moon

Bill graduates from Lakeside School

Bill begins college at Harvard University

Bill writes the software for the Altair 8800 with Paul Allen
Bill leaves Harvard to start Microsoft with Paul

1975 Popular Electronics announces the world's Rirst minicomputer kit

1980

1983

1987

1991

Microsoft signs major deal with IBM

Paul Allen leaves Microsoft

Bill becomes a billionaire

The World Wide Web is created

Bill marries Melinda French in Hawaii

1994 Bill's mother, Mary, dies

1996

1999

Bill's daughter, Jennifer Katharine, is born

Bill's son, Rory John, is born

Bill creates Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Right poverty and polio

2000 Bill steps down as CEO of Microsoft

2001

2002

2007

Terrorists attack the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC

Bill's daughter, Phoebe Adele, is born

Bill receives honorary degree from Harvard University