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The Trail of Tears was the route that the Native Americans took to Oklahoma when the they had to leave because of the Indian Removal Policy.
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Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in Lincoln County, Oklahoma.
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The starting date of the first land rush of unassigned land was April 22, 1889, there was an estimated amount of 50,000 people racing to get land.
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Jim Thorpe's twin brother died of pneumonia at age nine and it was very traumatic for Jim.
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Oklahoma became a state November 16, 1907. President Theodore Roosevelt signed that Oklahoma could be the 46th state.
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In 1912 Jim Thorpe won men's decathlon in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.
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Jim Thorpe got married to Iva Miller and also signed to play for the professional baseball team, the New York Giants.
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The Dust Bowl was a long period of time (1930-1939) of severe drought and dust storms.
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Jim Thorpe died on March 28, 1953 from a heart attack while he was eating dinner with his wife.
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The Oklahoma City bombing was when anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh set a bomb off on the side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people and injuring over 100.
