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Women gained the right to vote
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He was born February 7, 1920, in Shanghai, China.
He was the oldest out of five children -
when World War II started Wang moved to inland China, where he spent the war designing a radio
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Attended Harvard University for graduate school
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Howard Aiken hired Wang to work at the Harvard Computation Laboratory. This institution built the ASSC Mark I.
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Wang married, and had three children later. (no names were listed)
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Wang founded Wang Laboratories
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An Wang became an American citizen
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Sputnik I was launched by the Soviets
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Martin Luther King Jr. have his "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington.
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The company had sales of $27 million and 1,400 employees
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A theater called the Metropolitan Theater Was renamed as The Wang Theater
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He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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The Berlin Wall fell, symbol of the cold war
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Cold War ended, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and the internet changed life for everyone
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He died March 24, 1990, in Boston, MA of cancer
