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History - Timeline
| Sometime late in 1965 | Washoe
is born somewhere in West Africa |
| June, 1966 | Beginning
of Project Washoe (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| September, 1967 | Roger
Fouts joins Project Washoe (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| October, 1970 | Washoe
and the Fouts family move to Oklahoma (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| November 18, 1972 | Moja is
Born at Lemsip - Start of the Second Project in Reno, Nevada (adapted from Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees, by Allen Gardner, Beatrix Gardner, and Thomas Van Cantfort) |
| December 30, 1975 | Tatu is Born at IPS |
| August 2, 1976 | Dar is Born at Holloman |
| May 10, 1978 | Loulis is Born at Yerkes |
| January 9, 1979 | Washoe
gives birth to Sequoyah (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| March 8, 1979 | Sequoyah
dies of pneumonia (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| March 24, 1979 | Loulis
joins Washoe in Oklahoma (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| December, 1979 | Moja joins
Washoe & Loulis in Oklahoma (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| September, 1980 | Washoe,
Loulis, & Moja move to Central Washington University (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| May, 1981 | Tatu
and Dar move to Central Washington University (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| May 7, 1993 | The chimpanzees
move to the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute - located
on the campus of Central Washington University (adapted from Next of Kin, by Roger Fouts with Stephen Mills) |
| June 6, 2002 | Moja dies at the Chimpanzee & Human Communication Institute |
| October 30, 2007 | Washoe dies at the Chimpanzee & Human Communication Institute |
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