Steve Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco. An American entrepreneur and inventor, Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak and helped launch the personal computer industry with the Apple II and, in 1984, the Macintosh. He was pushed out of the company in 1985, then founded NeXT and led the animation studio Pixar to the success of Toy Story. Apple bought NeXT in 1997, and Jobs returned to lead it to a remarkable recovery with the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad, which combined design and technology. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2011.
Before and after
- 6 January 1955Birth of Rowan Atkinson
- 18 January 1955Birth of Kevin Costner
- 28 January 1955Birth of Nicolas Sarkozy
- 17 February 1955Birth of Mo Yan
- 24 February 1955Birth of Steve Jobs
- 11 March 1955Death of Alexander Fleming
- 21 March 1955Birth of Jair Bolsonaro
- 27 March 1955Birth of Mariano Rajoy
- from 1 April 1955 to 1 January 1959Cyprus Emergency
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- 24 October 1945Founding of United Nations Security Council
- 5 May 1949Founding of Council of Europe
- 1952Founding of European Parliament
- 15 June 1954Founding of Union of European Football Associations
- 1985Introduction of new shekel
- 1990Rise of K-pop
The era
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