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Sam Walton was born
Sam was born March 29, 1918 in Kingfisher OK, -
Walton goes to college
Sam goes to college at The University of Missouri -
Sam graduates
Sam graduated with a B.A in Economics at the University of Missouri -
Walton's first job in the sales department
Sam gets his first job at JC Pennies as a sales trainee -
Goes to the military
Sam was drafted to The United States Army and served as a communication officer in the Army Intelligence Corps -
Retires from JC Pennies
Sam retires from JC pennies -
Sam is released from Military
Sam is released from the military and not long after his wife had their first child. They now have 4 kids all together -
Sam Walton gets his first store
Sam's father-in-law gave him $25,000 to open his first variety store at the age 26 after retiring from the military -
The Variety Store is sold
He then sells his first store -
Walmart opens
Sam opened his very first Walmart in Rogers Arkansas and the company was officially incorporated and registering $12.7 billion in sales -
First Walmart
He creates the first Walmart -
Walmart gets big
Walmart had sales over 1 billion dollars and over 300 stores in North America -
Sam has passed
Sam Walton died April 5, 1992 but his company Walmart continues to grow to this day