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Warren Buffett was born.
He was born in Omaha Nebraska -
Entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Transferred to the University of Nebraska and graduated at the age of 19.
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Continued his education at the Columbia Business School, graduating in 1951.
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He attended New York Institute of Finance after that.
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Buffett married Susan Thompson at Dundee Presbyterian Church.
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They had their first child, Susan Alice.
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the Buffetts had their second child, Howard Graham.
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He purchased a five-bedroom stucco house in Omaha, where he still lives, for $31,500
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In 1958 the Buffetts' third child, Peter Andrew, was born.
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Buffett became a millionaire because of his partnerships, which in January 1962 had an excess of $7,178,500, of which over $1,025,000 belonged to Buffett.
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He created the Buffett Partnership after meeting Charlie Munger, and his firm eventually acquired a textile manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway
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Berkshire paid out its first and only dividend of 10 cents.
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In 1969, following his most successful year, Buffett liquidated the partnership and transferred their assets to his partners.
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the SEC opened a formal investigation into Buffett and Berkshire's acquisition of Wesco Financial, due to possible conflict of interest. No charges were brought.
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Susan and Warren Buffett began living separately in 1977.
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Berkshire began to acquire stock in ABC.
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Berkshire began the year trading at $775 per share, and ended at $1,310. Buffett's net worth reached $620 million.
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Berkshire Hathaway purchased a 12% stake in Salomon Inc., making it the largest shareholder and Buffett a director.
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Buffett began buying The Coca-Cola Company stock, eventually purchasing up to 7% of the company for $1.02 billion.
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Buffett became a billionaire when Berkshire Hathaway began selling class A shares on May 29, 1990, with the market closing at $7,175 a share.
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Buffett entered in $11 billion worth of forward contracts to deliver U.S. dollars against other currencies.
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Susan Buffett died
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His total gain on these contracts was over $2 billion.
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His annual salary was about $100,000.
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On his 76th birthday, Buffett married his longtime companion, Astrid Menks.
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Buffett ran into problems during the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
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Buffett became the richest person in the world, with a total net worth estimated at $62 billion.
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Buffett had agreed to buy General Electric (GE) preferred stock.
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Buffett lost $25 billion over a 12-month period during 2008/2009.
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over the course of the previous eight months, Buffett had bought 64 million shares of International Business Machine Corp stock, worth around $11 billion.
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Buffett was diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer during a routine test.
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the price of Berkshire Hathaway's shares hit $200,000 a share for the first time, capitalizing the company at $328 billion.
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Berkshire Hathaway was fined $896,000 for failing to report December 9, 2013, purchase of shares in USG Corporation as required.
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He began selling some of the approximately 81 million shares he owned in IBM stock, noting that he did not value the company as highly as he did six years earlier.