This Day, That Year – October 28

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft, born on this day in 1955.

Did you know that:

• Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on this day in 1636
• “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift was published by Benjamin Motte in London on this day in 1726
• William Lincoln was issued a patent for a lamp on this day in 1879