It sinks with the loss of 1,517 lives. Roosevelt, now a candidate of the Progressive Party, survives because bullet strikes a thick copy of a speech in his coat pocket. Woodrow Wilson elected president, defeating Roosevelt and incumbent William Howard Taft. Jim Thorpe wins pentathlon and decathlon as United States wins 23 gold medals at the Olympic Games in Stockholm. Thorpe's medals are taken away in 1913 after it was learned he played semi-professional baseball in 1909.
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