Bruce Lee Timeline
Bruce Lee Timeline
Bruce Lee Timeline
1940's
November 27, 1940 Bruce Lee born at Jackson Street Hospital,
San Francisco CA
1950's
February 20, 1950 Premier of "Blooms and Butterflies"
June 22, 1959 Flies to New York to visit his father who
is performing for 3 weeks with the Hong Kong Cantonese Opera
Troupe. Takes Southern Praying Mantis style martial art lessons from
Sifu Gin Foon Mark
1960's
Early 1960 Performs demonstration at Seattle
Chinatown's Chinese New Year Celebration (credit: user LJF - Bruce
Lee Lives Tribute Forum)
October 28, 1960 Bruce and students give a Judo & Gung Fu
demonstration at Seattle's Yesler Terrace Gymnasium
February 14, 1961 Bruce and some of his students give a Gung
Fu demonstration at Seattle's Yesler Terrace Gymnasium
May 7 - Sep 1965 Takes Brandon with him and Linda to Hong
Kong to visit his family
August 25, 1967 Bruce has first training session with actor
Steve McQueen at McQueen's home
January 25, 1968 Bruce has first private lesson with Karate
champion Joe Lewis
1970's
January 29, 1970 Bruce closes his Chinatown school
Jan 29 - Feb 11, 1971 Goes to India with James Coburn and Stirling
Silliphant to scout locations for Silent Flute
September 24, 1971 Bruce meets with Warner Bros Tom Kuhn to
discuss the Kung Fu TV series
October 11, 1971 Departs for Hong Kong with Linda, Shannon
and Brandon
October 30, 1971 "The Big Boss" premiers and makes $3.2M
in 23 days
November 19, 1971 Appears in a special program on HKTVB for
The Big Boss
June 13, 1972 Bruce visits Angela Mao Ying on the set
of her film Hapkido again, this time with Bob Wall and Chuck Norris
November 20, 1972 Black Belt Magazine grants Lee the 1972
Martial Artist of the year Award
December 30, 1972 Bruce's students Ted Wong and Herb Jackson
visit Bruce in Hong Kong
December 30, 1972 James Yimm Lee passes away from cancer in
Oakland, CA
1990's
March 31, 1993 Bruce's son Brandon Lee killed on the
set of the movie "The Crow"
November 15, 1995 Hong Kong post office releases Bruce Lee
postage stamp
2000's
October 21, 2000 Bruce Lee Day declared in San Francisco,
CA
May 24, 2004 Bruce Lee receives Ethnic
Multicultural Media Academy Legacy Award in London, England
March 10, 2018 "Do You Know Bruce Lee: A Dragon Lives
Here" Year 4 exhibition opens at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle WA