AANHPI History Calendar

· Mountain View, California

Sundar Pichai Becomes CEO of Google

achievement

On August 10, 2015, Sundar Pichai, an Indian American engineer, was named CEO of Google as founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the parent company Alphabet — among the most prominent corporate leadership roles held by an Asian American.

Communities
  • Indian American
Topics
  • business
  • technology
Event type
  • achievement/first
Regions
  • South Asian

Sources

  • npr.org npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/10/431388769/google-creates-new-parent-company-called-alphabet
  • cnbc.com cnbc.com/2018/08/10/google-alphabet-restructuring-third-anniversary.html

Also on August 10

resistance

Civil Liberties Act Signed

President Reagan signed the law granting a formal apology and reparations to Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII.

injustice

Killing of Joseph Ileto

White supremacist Buford Furrow fatally shot Filipino American postal worker Joseph Ileto after wounding five people at a Jewish community center; Furrow said he targeted Ileto as nonwhite and a federal worker. (Shares Aug 10 with the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.)

Content note: racial violence