 William Henry Gates was born. He was born to William H. and Mary Maxwell Gates. He was born mid morning on October 28, 1955.

 Bill Gates enrolls in a prestigious private school, Lakeside School, there he would meet Paul Allen.

 Bill Gates receives an SAT score of 1590/1600

 Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard to study computer science.

 1974-Micro-Soft is formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

 Drops out of Harvard after his third to start Microsoft, but would eventually get a degree from their.

 Bill Gates was arrested in Mexico for racing his Porsche he spent a short time in jail.

 The company’s name Micro-Soft changes to Microsoft.

 Microsoft became a corporation with Bill Gate as the CEO.

 At the age of 31 Bill Gates becomes a Billionaire.

 Microsoft sales finally make it to 1 billion dollars.

 President Bush awards Bill Gates ‘National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement.’

 Gates goes to Omaha to buy his wife an engagement ring, at Warren Buffet’s jewelry store.

 Bill Gates gets married at Hawaii on New Years Day to Melinda French.

 ,000 shares of stock were sold by Bill Gates and he collected 39,142,500 dollars from this sale.

 7 June A judge rules Microsoft be split into to company’s, stating Microsoft as an “abusive monopoly.”

 Bill and Melinda Gates make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They donate billions of dollars to this foundation.

 Microsoft goes into the Gaming market with the production of the Xbox.

 27 June Bill Gates retires from his full-time duties to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. He plans to still be the chairman of Microsoft for life.

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