dipity

Joey's personal timeline, a place to collect and share things from Joey's life.

Created by JaeinLee on May 12, 2010

Last updated: 05/12/10 at 09:28 AM

• Sergey Brin & Larry Page
  Sep 4, 1998 12:00 PM

  Founded Google which created a new era in Internet use and how people approach the web

• Barrack Obama
  Jul 1, 1961 10:00 am

  1st black president Showed black men can become president

• Bill Gates
  Oct 28, 1955 12:00 pm

  Founder of Microsoft and pioneer of OS that became the basis for computers

• Mikhail Gorbachev
  Mar 15, 1931 12:00 am

  Soviet Leader who introduced reforms that shaped the USSR to fall and form Russia

• Martin Luther King Jr.
  Jan 15, 1929 12:00 pm

  Black civil rights leader who was assassinated.

• Jackie Robinson
  Jan 31, 1919 12:00 pm

  1st Black player in major league baseball Played in the Brooklyn Dodgers Challenged color line and racial segregation

• Joe Louis
  May 13, 1914 12:00 pm

  The Brown Bomber, Joe Lewis was the world heavyweight boxing champion. Inspired black people and showed patriotism in WWII

• Jack Johnson
  Mar 31, 1878 12:00 pm

  The 1st black boxer, Jack Johnson, became the 1st successful black boxer and won recognition as the world heavy-weight champion. Johnson was a controversial figure, as he flirted with white women and generally ignored social conventions.