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Billionaire

A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the world every year.-U.S...

Timeline of Events

1916

9.29.1916

John D. Rockefeller becomes the second billionaire.

1973

6.10.1973

John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

2005

2.14.2005

Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri killed, along with 21 others, when explosives equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.