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Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's fast food chain.
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Steve Jobs is born.
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This will be the lifespan of Steve Jobs and all the events that took place when he was alive.
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He enrolled at Reed College. Jobs dropped out after 6 months. He spent the next 18 months drooping in on some of their creative classes.
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When Steve Jobs was 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer. This work was done in Steve Jobs family garage, and Jobs had to sell his Volkswagen bug and Wozniak had to sell his scientific calculator.
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Jobs had a daughter with his girlfriend when he was 23. He did not claim her, but when she became a teenager she came to live with him.
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Apple Computer becomes a publicly traded company. It has a market value of $1.2 billion on the end of its first day of trading. Steve Jobs was looking at John Sculley (Pepsi-Cola) to become the CEO of Apple.
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Apple releases the Macintosh. Despite positive sales and performance that was superior to IBM's PC, Macintosh was still not IBM compatible.
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Since Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, the company's executives begin to phase him out. He was pushed into a marginalized position, and he left Apple.
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Steve Jobs started a new software and hardware enterprise.
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Jobs bought a company, which later became Pixar Animation Studios, from George Lucas. Since he believed in the potential, Jobs invested $50 million of his own money into this company.
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Jobs met Laurene Powell. They married on March 18, 1991. Steve and Laurene lived in Palo Alto, California with their 3 children.
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NeXT drowned in its attempts to sell their specialized operating system to America. Apple bought the company for $429 million. The following year, Jobs was once again the CEO of Apple.
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The Twin Towers were crashed into by planes.
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He had a neuroendocrine tumor. Jobs postponed surgery, and he changed his diet instead.
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China launches its very first space mission that is manned.
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Jobs received a successful surgery that removed his tumor.
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An earthquake in the Indian Ocean leaves 230,000 dead.
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After 76 years, Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
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After battling pancreatic cancer for years, he died in Palo Alto at the age of 56.
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