Jim Thorpe

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
05/28/1887	was born	was born near Prague, Oklahoma
08/10/1893	went to boarding school	went to boarding school and kept running away
09/30/1896	brother died	Jim's brother died of pneumomia
11/08/1899	goes to different boarding school
10/29/1900	mom dies	mother dies and he ran away from school and started working in a small ranch
11/16/1912	play in the olympics	wen to olympics
11/08/1913	married	married Iva Miller whom he had met at Carlisle. They had four children: Jim Jr. (who died at age 2), Gale, Charlotte and Grace.Miller filed for divorce from Thorpe in 1925.
11/16/1913	banned from olympics
09/18/1920	retires
11/16/1932	invited to see olympics	the president invited him to watch the olympics with him.
11/16/1933	becomes an actor
11/16/1949	retires
11/16/1950	movie released about him
03/28/1953	dies
11/16/1954	two town and make a city called Jim Thorpe
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
05/28/1887 to 03/28/1953	lifespan of Jim Thorpe