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Notable Achievements at Age 38
Career totals at retirement: 92 ATP singles titles, 22 majors
Retired with 92 ATP Tour singles titles (63 on clay), 22 Grand Slam singles titles (record 14 French Opens), 36 Masters titles and two Olympic gold medals; 209 weeks at world No. 1, five year-end No.1 finishes.
Fired from OpenAI CEO role by board
OpenAI board announced removal of Altman as CEO citing he 'was not consistently candid' with the board; Greg Brockman also removed from board.
Second child born (Elijah Jude)
Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner's second son was born in July 2023.
Sentenced to 11.25 years in federal prison and restitution ordered
Judge Edward Davila sentenced Holmes to 11¼ years in federal prison and ordered her and Balwani to pay $452 million in restitution.
Co-founded Anthropic (CEO)
Founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela Amodei and multiple former OpenAI senior staff; mission: build reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems.
Christchurch mosque terrorist attacks
A shooter attacked two mosques in Christchurch, killing 51 people; national tragedy thrust Ardern into international attention for her response.
Founded En Marche! movement
Launched a centrist, pro‑European political movement in Amiens on 6 April 2016 (later renamed La République En Marche! / Renaissance).
Married Kristen Bell
Shepard and Kristen Bell married at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office on October 17, 2013.
Birth of daughter Lincoln (first child)
Shepard and Kristen Bell welcomed their first daughter, Lincoln, on March 28, 2013.
Co-founded Stack Overflow
In 2008 Atwood and Joel Spolsky founded Stack Overflow, a programming Q&A site that later became the core of the Stack Exchange network.
Stanley wins the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
Led development of the autonomous vehicle 'Stanley', which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge; team members included Michael Montemerlo.
Co‑author & signatory: Agile Manifesto (Snowbird)
Participated in the Snowbird meeting and was one of the 17 signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.
Awarded PhD (University of Paris - Dauphine)
Received PhD in management science; dissertation 'The Microstructure of Dynamic Hedging' under Hélyette Geman, focused on mathematics of derivatives pricing.
Linus Torvalds releases Linux kernel (milestone for GNU/Linux)
Linux kernel released by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and combined with GNU components to form the common GNU/Linux operating system; sparked ongoing naming controversy.
Married Maria Shriver
Married journalist Maria Owings Shriver (member of the Kennedy family).
Martial law imposed; Wałęsa arrested (13 Dec 1981)
General Jaruzelski declared martial law; Wałęsa and many Solidarity leaders were arrested and he was interned for about 11 months.
Named Time Person of the Year (1981)
Time magazine Person of the Year 1981 for his leadership of Solidarity.
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Awarded the American Mathematical Society's Oswald Veblen Prize for his work including discovery of Chern–Simons invariants.
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