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September 1968: 2Pac's mother, Afeni Shakur, joins the New York Black Panther party at age 22.
April 1969: Afeni is arrested and charged with conspiracy to bomb several New York City public areas. While out on bail, Afeni courts two men: Legs, a local hood, and Billy, a member of the party.
February 1971: Afeni, pregnant with 2Pac, has her bail revoked; she's sent to the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village.
June 16, 1971: Shortly after Afeni is acquitted on bombing charges, Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York. Tupac Amaru are Incan words meaning "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for Thankful to God.
1975-1983: 2Pac's family shuttles between Harlem and the Bronx. At times, they stay in shelters.
1983: Legs comes to live with the Shakur family and introduces Afeni to crack cocaine.
September 1983: Afeni enrolls 12 year-old 2Pac in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group. In his first performance, 2Pac plays Travis in Raisin the Sun.
June 1986: Shakur's family moves to Baltimore. 2Pac writes his first rap.
September 1986: 2Pac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studies ballet and acting.
June 1988: 2Pac and his family move to Marin City, California "Leaving that school affected me so much," he said later. "I see that as the point where I got off track." Shortly after, 2Pac moves in with a neighbor and begins selling drugs.
August 1988: Mutulu Shakur, 2Pac's stepfather, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armored car robbery.
1990: 2Pac joins Digital Underground as a rodie/dancer/rapper. While on tour, he finds out his mother is using crack.
January 3, 1991: 2Pac makes his recording debut on Digital Underground's This Is An EP Release.
November 12, 1991: 2Pacaplypse Now is released. Shortly thereafter, 2Pac files a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland police for alleged brutality following an arrest for jaywalking.
January 17, 1992: 2Pac makes his film debut in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, earning praise for his portrayal of Bishop. The movie features his famous line "I am crazy, and I don't give a fuck!"
April 11, 19992: Ronald Ray Howard, 19, shoots a Texas trooper. Howard's attorney claims 2Pacalypse Now, which was in his client's tape deck, incited him to kill.
August 22, 1992: 2Pac has an altercation with old acquaintances in Marin City. As a result, a 6 year old bystander is shot in the head. 2Pac's half brother, Maurice Harding is arrested and then released due to lack of evidence.
September 22, 1992: 2Pac is denounced by Vice President Dan Quayle, who says 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society".
February 1, 1993: Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ is released and eventually goes platinum.
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March 13, 1993: 2Pac fights with a limo driver in Hollywood who accuses him of using drugs in the car. 2Pac is arrested, but the charges are dropped.
April 5, 1993: In Lansing Michigan, 2Pac is arrested for taking a swing at a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. He's sentenced to 10 days in jail.
July 23, 1993: John Singleton's Poetic Justice, starring 2Pac and Janet Jackson, is released. Jackson demands 2Pac take an HIV test before she does any kissing scenes.
October 31, 1993: 2Pac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta police officers whom he says were harassing a black motorist. Charges are eventually dropped.
November 18, 1993: A 19-year-old woman, whom 2Pac picked up 4 days earlier in a New York nightclub, is allegedly sodomized and sexually abused by the rapper and 3 of his friends.
December 1993: Columbia Pictures forces John Singleton to drop 2Pac from the cast of his upcoming film, Higher Learning.
March 10, 1994: 2Pac is sentenced to fifteen days in a Los Angeles jail for punching out director Allen Hughes. Hughes and his brother, Albert, had dropped 2Pac from their film Menace II Society.
March 23, 1994: 2Pac stars as Birdie, a troubled drug dealer, in Above the Rim. The soundtrack, featuring the song "Pour out a Little Liquor," recorded by 2Pac's group, Thug Life, sells 2 million copies.
September 7, 1994: Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and cite 2Pac's "Souljah's Story" as their inspiration.
November, 30 1994: While on trial for sex and weapons charges, 2Pac is shot five times and robbed of $40,000 worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. 2Pac checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after surgery. The case remains unsolved.
December 1, 1994: 2Pac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
February 14, 1995: 2Pac is sentenced to up to four and a half years in a maximum security prison. He immediately begins serving his time in New York's Riker's Island penitentiary.
April 1, 1995: While he's incarcerated, 2Pac's third album, Me Against the World, debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. Featuring the touching single "Dear Mama," the album goes double platinum in 7 months.
April 1995: In a Vibe magazine interview conducted in jail, 2Pac renounces the "thug life" and commits himself to positive works. He also implicates Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs, Andre Harrell, and his close friend Stretch, along with others in the recording studio ambush.
August 1995: Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell Vibe magazine they had no connection to 2Pac's shooting.
October 1995: Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight posts $1.4 million bond to release 2Pac. 2Pac immediately flies to LA, signs with Death Row and begins recording All Eyez on Me.
November 30, 1995: Exactly one year after 2Pac's shooting, Randy "Stretch" Walker (whom Pac implicated in his ambush) is murdered execution style in Queens.
February 1996: In Vibe, 2Pac suggests he's been sleeping with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. She denies it.
February 13, 1996: 2Pac's Death Row debut, All Eyez on Me is released. It is rap's first double CD.
March 29, 1996: Words are exchanged and a gun is pulled when Death Row and Bad Boy employees face off after the Soul Train awards in Los Angeles.
April 25, 1996: All Eyez on Me goes quintuple platinum.
May 1996: 2Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg release "2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted." The video portrays caricatures of Biggie and Puffy being punished for setting up 2Pac.
June 4, 1996: Death Row releases 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up," a brutal diatribe against Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and others.
September 4, 1996: 2Pac returns to New York for the MTV Music Awards and gets into a scuffle.
September 7, 1996: Shakur leaves the Mike Tyson/Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas and gets into Suge Knight's car. While riding in the passenger side of Knight's car, Shakur is shot four times in the chest by an assailant in a white Cadillac. Knight, who has connections with the Bloods, escapes with a minor injury. Shakur is rushed to University Medical Center and undergoes surgery, which includes the removal of his right lung.
September 11, 1996: A Compton man whom police claim to be associated with the LA Crips is shot to death while sitting in his car. This is the first in a series of gang-related murders. Police begin investigating possible connections to 2Pac's shooting.
Friday, September 13 1996: After six days in critical condition, 2Pac Shakur is pronounced dead at 4:03 pm. His body is later cremated. He was 25 years old.
September 1968: 2Pac's mother, Afeni Shakur, joins the New York Black Panther party at age 22.
April 1969: Afeni is arrested and charged with conspiracy to bomb several New York City public areas. While out on bail, Afeni courts two men: Legs, a local hood, and Billy, a member of the party.
February 1971: Afeni, pregnant with 2Pac, has her bail revoked; she's sent to the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village.
June 16, 1971: Shortly after Afeni is acquitted on bombing charges, Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York. Tupac Amaru are Incan words meaning "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for Thankful to God.
1975-1983: 2Pac's family shuttles between Harlem and the Bronx. At times, they stay in shelters.
1983: Legs comes to live with the Shakur family and introduces Afeni to crack cocaine.
September 1983: Afeni enrolls 12 year-old 2Pac in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group. In his first performance, 2Pac plays Travis in Raisin the Sun.
June 1986: Shakur's family moves to Baltimore. 2Pac writes his first rap.
September 1986: 2Pac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studies ballet and acting.
June 1988: 2Pac and his family move to Marin City, California "Leaving that school affected me so much," he said later. "I see that as the point where I got off track." Shortly after, 2Pac moves in with a neighbor and begins selling drugs.
August 1988: Mutulu Shakur, 2Pac's stepfather, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armored car robbery.
1990: 2Pac joins Digital Underground as a rodie/dancer/rapper. While on tour, he finds out his mother is using crack.
January 3, 1991: 2Pac makes his recording debut on Digital Underground's This Is An EP Release.
November 12, 1991: 2Pacaplypse Now is released. Shortly thereafter, 2Pac files a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland police for alleged brutality following an arrest for jaywalking.
January 17, 1992: 2Pac makes his film debut in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, earning praise for his portrayal of Bishop. The movie features his famous line "I am crazy, and I don't give a fuck!"
April 11, 19992: Ronald Ray Howard, 19, shoots a Texas trooper. Howard's attorney claims 2Pacalypse Now, which was in his client's tape deck, incited him to kill.
August 22, 1992: 2Pac has an altercation with old acquaintances in Marin City. As a result, a 6 year old bystander is shot in the head. 2Pac's half brother, Maurice Harding is arrested and then released due to lack of evidence.
September 22, 1992: 2Pac is denounced by Vice President Dan Quayle, who says 2Pacalypse Now "has no place in our society".
February 1, 1993: Strictly 4 My NIGGAZ is released and eventually goes platinum.
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March 13, 1993: 2Pac fights with a limo driver in Hollywood who accuses him of using drugs in the car. 2Pac is arrested, but the charges are dropped.
April 5, 1993: In Lansing Michigan, 2Pac is arrested for taking a swing at a local rapper with a baseball bat during a concert. He's sentenced to 10 days in jail.
July 23, 1993: John Singleton's Poetic Justice, starring 2Pac and Janet Jackson, is released. Jackson demands 2Pac take an HIV test before she does any kissing scenes.
October 31, 1993: 2Pac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta police officers whom he says were harassing a black motorist. Charges are eventually dropped.
November 18, 1993: A 19-year-old woman, whom 2Pac picked up 4 days earlier in a New York nightclub, is allegedly sodomized and sexually abused by the rapper and 3 of his friends.
December 1993: Columbia Pictures forces John Singleton to drop 2Pac from the cast of his upcoming film, Higher Learning.
March 10, 1994: 2Pac is sentenced to fifteen days in a Los Angeles jail for punching out director Allen Hughes. Hughes and his brother, Albert, had dropped 2Pac from their film Menace II Society.
March 23, 1994: 2Pac stars as Birdie, a troubled drug dealer, in Above the Rim. The soundtrack, featuring the song "Pour out a Little Liquor," recorded by 2Pac's group, Thug Life, sells 2 million copies.
September 7, 1994: Two Milwaukee teens murder a police officer and cite 2Pac's "Souljah's Story" as their inspiration.
November, 30 1994: While on trial for sex and weapons charges, 2Pac is shot five times and robbed of $40,000 worth of jewelry in the lobby of a Times Square recording studio. 2Pac checks himself out of the hospital less than three hours after surgery. The case remains unsolved.
December 1, 1994: 2Pac is acquitted of sodomy and weapons charges but is found guilty of sexual abuse.
February 14, 1995: 2Pac is sentenced to up to four and a half years in a maximum security prison. He immediately begins serving his time in New York's Riker's Island penitentiary.
April 1, 1995: While he's incarcerated, 2Pac's third album, Me Against the World, debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. Featuring the touching single "Dear Mama," the album goes double platinum in 7 months.
April 1995: In a Vibe magazine interview conducted in jail, 2Pac renounces the "thug life" and commits himself to positive works. He also implicates Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs, Andre Harrell, and his close friend Stretch, along with others in the recording studio ambush.
August 1995: Biggie, Puffy and Harrell tell Vibe magazine they had no connection to 2Pac's shooting.
October 1995: Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight posts $1.4 million bond to release 2Pac. 2Pac immediately flies to LA, signs with Death Row and begins recording All Eyez on Me.
November 30, 1995: Exactly one year after 2Pac's shooting, Randy "Stretch" Walker (whom Pac implicated in his ambush) is murdered execution style in Queens.
February 1996: In Vibe, 2Pac suggests he's been sleeping with Biggie's wife, Faith Evans. She denies it.
February 13, 1996: 2Pac's Death Row debut, All Eyez on Me is released. It is rap's first double CD.
March 29, 1996: Words are exchanged and a gun is pulled when Death Row and Bad Boy employees face off after the Soul Train awards in Los Angeles.
April 25, 1996: All Eyez on Me goes quintuple platinum.
May 1996: 2Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg release "2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted." The video portrays caricatures of Biggie and Puffy being punished for setting up 2Pac.
June 4, 1996: Death Row releases 2Pac's "Hit 'Em Up," a brutal diatribe against Biggie, Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, and others.
September 4, 1996: 2Pac returns to New York for the MTV Music Awards and gets into a scuffle.
September 7, 1996: Shakur leaves the Mike Tyson/Bruce Seldon fight in Las Vegas and gets into Suge Knight's car. While riding in the passenger side of Knight's car, Shakur is shot four times in the chest by an assailant in a white Cadillac. Knight, who has connections with the Bloods, escapes with a minor injury. Shakur is rushed to University Medical Center and undergoes surgery, which includes the removal of his right lung.
September 11, 1996: A Compton man whom police claim to be associated with the LA Crips is shot to death while sitting in his car. This is the first in a series of gang-related murders. Police begin investigating possible connections to 2Pac's shooting.
Friday, September 13 1996: After six days in critical condition, 2Pac Shakur is pronounced dead at 4:03 pm. His body is later cremated. He was 25 years old.
