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Mark Zuckerberg was born to Edward and Karen Zuckerberg in White Plains, New York.
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The Hubble Telescope launched into orbit on April 24th during this year.
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Graduates from Philips Exeter Academy; starts Harvard University on a psychology and computer science degree.
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The market reached lows not reached since 1997 and 1998.
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He created a website called Facemash. He almost got kicked out of Harvard because the website impacted people in a negative way when it became popular.
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He started Thefacebook.com in February; dropped out of Harvard; Facebook hits 200,000 users and receives investments from upper class people; gets sued by Winklevoss twins because he allegedly copied their idea.
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Facebook hits 5 million users.
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, and more.
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He turns down a $1 million offer from Yahoo.
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Zuckerberg makes Facebook available for all people, not just students. He also turns down more billion dollar offers from large companies such as Microsoft.
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President Obama is elected the president of the United States.
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China blocks the use of Facebook from its people.
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Michael Jackson devastatingly dies of overdose.
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Was named Time magazine's person of the year and a documentary about his life was made called The Social Network.
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Zuckerberg appeared on Saturday Night Live.
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Facebook had an initial public offering that raised $16 billion which made in the biggest internet IPO in history.
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He married his wife, Priscilla Chan.
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Facebook made the Fortune 500 list for the first time. This made Zuckerberg the youngest CEO on the list at age 28.
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Zuckerberg and his wife had their first Daughter, Maxima.
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Zuckerberg was criticized for fake news on Facebook causing a big scandal.
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They had their second daughter, August.
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Mark Zuckerberg was accused of not notifying his Facebook users when their profiles were being investigated in the 2016 Donald Trump campaign. This caused Facebook to lose 15% of its users.
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Zuckerberg became the third richest person in the world.
