Steve Jobs By luke whitacre Feb 24, 1955 Steve Jobs is born Jan 1, 1973 Jobs attends Reed college but then drops out after a few months Jan 1, 1974 Jobs takes a position as a video game designer with Atari Jan 1, 1976 Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers in Job's family garage Jan 1, 1984 Apple Computers releases the Macintosh Jan 1, 1985 Jobs resigns as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. Jan 1, 1986 Jobs purchases an animation company from director George Lucas which later became Pixar Animation Studios Mar 18, 1991 Jobs gets married to Lauren Powell and goes to live in Palo Alto, California with Lauren and their three kids Jan 1, 1997 Apple buys NeXT Inc. for $429 million dollars. That same year, Jobs returned to his job as Apple's CEO Jan 1, 2003 Jobs discovers that he has a rare form of pancreatic cancer Apr 28, 2003 Apple opens iTunes music store Jan 1, 2004 Jobs has successful surgery to remove pancreatic tumor Jan 6, 2004 Jobs unveils the iPod mini Jan 1, 2006 Pixar merges with Walt Disney making Jobs the largest shareholder Jan 9, 2007 Apple introduces the iPhone Jun 29, 2007 Apple releases iPhone Jan 1, 2008 iTunes becomes the second biggest music retailer in America-second only to Wal-Mart Sep 9, 2009 Jobs announces that he is dealing with a hormone imbalance at an invite-only apple event Jan 27, 2010 Apple unveils iPad Oct 5, 2011 Apple announces that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old
