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Michael Jackson

During a European tour, The Beatles play at The Palais Des Expositions, Nice, France.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson are recording Can You Remember for Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson make their tv debut on the Miss Black America Pageant in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on tv in the USA.
Two live tracks by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, appear on the compilation album Motown At The Hollywood Palace, released today by Motown Records in the USA. The album also features live performances by The Supremes, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight And The Pips.
When I'll Be There hits No1 in the USA, The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, becomes the first group ever to score four consecutive Billboard No1s with its first four singles - I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save and I'll Be There.
The Jackson 5ive cartoon series, starring animated versions of The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, debuts on ABC-tv in the USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson's, latest album, Goin' Back to Indiana, enters the Billboard US Albums Chart, where it will peak at No16 during a 26-week run.
Rockin' Robin by Michael Jackson enters the Billboard US Hot 100 Singles chart, where it will peak at No2.
Michael Jackson's third solo single, I Wanna be Where You Are, on Motown Records, enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No16, during a nine-week run.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the seventh of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Jacksons release Destiny on Epic Records. It is their first entirely self-produced and almost entirely group-written album.
David Bowie reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with Let's Dance. On the same day, Beat It by Michael Jackson becomes the new Billboard No1 r'n'b single in the USA.
Michael Jackson is being made up as a werewolf for the video for his upcoming single Thriller at Rick Baker's studio, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Michael Jackson's Thriller video, which cost over $1m to make, is premiered at The Metro Theater, Westwood, California, USA.
Thriller by Michael Jackson becomes the best-selling album ever, topping ten million sales.
CBS records reports that the Michael Jackson album Thriller has now sold 19.4m copies in the USA alone, and 30.9m worldwide.
Bad by Michael Jackson enters the UK pop singles chart, where it will peak at No3 during an eleven-week run.
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The duets album, Love Songs, by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, enters the UK Top 100 albums chart, where it will peak at No12.
1.5m ticket applications follow immediately after Michael Jackson announces two forthcoming dates at Wembley Stadium, London, England, UK, Europe. To accommodate that number, Jackson would need to add a further eighteen dates. He doesn't.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the second of two nights at Flaminio Stadium Rome, Italy.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at Volkspark Stadium, Hamburg, Germany, Europe, to an audience of 50,000.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of two nights at Pairc Ui Caoimh, Cork, Ireland, Europe, to an audience of 60,000.
Michael Jackson releases his Moonwalker video in the USA.
On her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, Janet Jackson plays at The Capital Cenre, Landover, Maryland, USA.
Sections of Michael Jackson's Black Or White video, which includes crotch-grabbing and car-smashing scenes, are edited out after protests from tv viewers.
Professor Haakan Borglund of Uppsala University in Lund, Sweden, Europe, claims the woman Michael Jackson has married is not really Lisa Marie Presley but a double.
The Jackson Family Honours TV gala airs on America's NBC network, featuring Michael Jackson, The Jacksons, Dionne Warwick, Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Bruce Hornsby, Berry Gordy and many others.
On the HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of two nights at the Parc Des Princes, Paris, France, Europe, to an audience of 65,000.
On the HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at the Festwiese, Leipzig, Germany, to an audience of 55,000.
Debbie Rowe divorces Michael Jackson. Rowe, who receives an $8-million settlement and a house in Beverly Hills, California, USA, gives full custody rights of their children to Jackson.
Michael Jackson is chosen as Artist Of The Century at The American Music Awards in the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
During a UK visit, Michael Jackson drops into the HMV megastore in Oxford Street, London, to buy CDs and DVDs.
Wearing a black ski mask, Michael Jackson goes shopping at Wal-Mart. Finding their masked visitor very suspicious, Wal-Mart calls the police. Not long after, the police pull him over. Nothing comes of it because he is simply vacationing near Aspen, Colorado so his children can see snow.
Journalist Martin Bashir, a crucial prosecution witness in the Michael Jackson child molestation case in Santa Maria, California, USA, refuses to answer any questions while in the witness box.
The Rev Jesse Jackson, spiritual advisor to Michael Jackson, tells reporters outside the Santa Maria, California, USA, courthouse where Jackson's child molestation trial has been heard, that the star is 'anxiously awaiting' the jury’s verdict, but is also 'amazingly optimistic'.
Nona Paris Lola Jackson, a British woman claiming to be the biological mother of Michael Jackson's three children, has her case thrown out by a Los Angeles Court.
It is reported that Michael Jackson is involved in talks to sign a $214.5m (
After more than a million fans apply for tickets to Michael Jackson's comeback shows in London, UK, it is announced that a further nine dates will be put on sale.
The album Thriller by Michael Jackson is voted the Greatest Album of All Time in a poll of 40,000 viewers conducted by MTV.
New Jersey-based AllGood Entertainment Inc files suit in New York City, USA, in an attempt to stop Michael Jackson from performing in London, England, UK, Europe, this year, claiming his appearances would be in violation of a prior contract.
Londell McMillan, lawyer for the Jackson family, refutes actor Mark Lester's claim to be the sperm-donor responsible for the birth of Michael Jackson's daughter Paris. McMillan dismisses Lester's claim as "unproven and meaningless."
It is reported that Michael Jackson's former landlord, Aner Iglesias, has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court to regain $234,000 for damage the singer allegedly caused to his Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, home from 2008 to 2009.
Howard H. Scott, a member of the Columbia Records team that introduced the long-playing vinyl record in 1948, dies aged 92 of cancer in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.
On her Born This Way Ball Tour, Lady Gaga plays at The River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
Jason Mraz plays at The Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Janet Jackson plays at the Dubai World Cup, Meydan Racecourse, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Asia.
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