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Bruce Lee

Life of a legend

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November 27, 1940: Bruce Lee Jun-fan is born in in San Francisco. He starts his acting career at three months, playing a female baby in Golden Gate Girl.

1946: Moves to Hong Kong with his parents, where he appears in 20 films as a child and attends La Salle school.

1953: Takes up kung fu after losing a street fight.

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1959: Lee's parents, worried about him getting in too many street fights, send him back to San Francisco, where he begins teaching martial arts in backyards and city parks.

1963: Starts the first Jun Fan Kung-fu Institute in Seattle. At a high-school demonstration, he performs the 'one-inch punch' that would make him famous.

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1964: Marries Linda Emery, whom he met at a kung fu class, and they move to Oakland, California, where he starts his second kung fu institute.

1965: Creates the early concepts of jeet kune do, 'the way of the intercepting fist'.

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