(March 25,1914) Norman Borlaug is born on a farm outside of Cresco, Iowa.
Norman Borlaug
Norman Borlaug's green revolution changed the world as we know it.
(1932-1942) Norman Borlaug attends the University of Minnesota, earning a BS in Forestry and a PHD in Plant Pathology.
(1944) Norman Borlaug joins the OSS and begins working on breeding wheat varieties resistant to stem rust (a disease caused by a fungus affecting cereal crop)
(1963) Borlaug travels to India and Pakistan and begins spreading his research as invited by Indian Prime Minister M. S. Swaminathan.
(1970) Norman Borlaug wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Plant Pathology
(1984) Borlaug becomes a professor of agriculture at Texas A&M University, a position he would hold for the rest of his life.
(1986) Borlaug creates the World Food Prize to recogonize the greatest achievements in fighting world hunger.
(1998) Borlaug and John Ruan Sr. create the World Food Prize Borlaug-Ruan Sr. International Internship, sending students abroad for 8-week internships in international centers.
(1999) Population increases to more than 6 billion, tripling in size since before the 1940s.
(2009) Norman Borlaug dies at 95. His last words are "Take it to the farmer"
(October 9, 2015) Protests from farmers begin in Punjab.