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William Henry Gates III was born October, 28 1955 in Seattle, WA
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Bill Gates was caught hacking into a major corporation's computer and was forced to give up computing for a whole year
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Bill Gates hacked into his high school computer so he was able to be in classes filled with all girls
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen had been hacking computers since high school and large firms had paid them to do lucrative contract programming.
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Gates and Allen discovered that they could be making money for the computer languages like BASIC for new computers
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Gates used 8080 instruction set
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Bill Gates enrolls in Harvard University
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Bill Gates had dropped out of Harvard because he was scared of missing out on the personal computing revolution
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Bill and Paul start Microsoft
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Microsoft signs a deal with IBM to combine Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French, who is a Microsoft employee
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At the age of 39, Bill Gates is named the richest man in the world
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Bill and Melinda Gates started this foundation to help all people for a healthy and productive life. This foundation was built to improve people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.
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Bill Gates received an honorary law degree from Harvard University and named him the most illustrious member of the class of 1977
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Bill and Melinda Gates were rewarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. This award is the highest civilian award in America
