April 1969: Afeni's is arrested and charged with conspiracy to bomb several public areas in new York City.  While out on bail, Afeni courts two men: Legs, a local hood, and Billy, a member of the party.

February 1971: Afeni, pregnant with Tupac, has her bail revoked; she's sent to the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village.

June 16, 1971: Shortly after his mom is acquitted on bombing charges, Tupac Amaru Shakur is born in New York.  Tupac Amaru are Inca Words meaning "shining serpent." Shakur is Arabic for Thankful to God.

1975-1983: Tupac's family shuttles between the Bronx and Harlem, at times living in shelters.

1983: Legs comes to live with the Shakur family; Tupac "claims" him as his father.  Legs introduces Afeni to Crack.

September 1983: Afeni enrolls 12-year-old Tupac in the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem theater group.  In his first performance, Tupac plays Travis in a Raisin the Sun.

June 1986: Shakur's family moves to Baltimore;.  As MC New York Tupac writes his first rap.

September 1986: Tupac enrolls at the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he studies ballet and acting.

June 1988: Tupac and his family move to Marine 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, Tupac moves in with a neighbor and begins selling drugs.

August: 1988: Mutulu Shakur, Tupac's stepfather, is sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 armored-car robbery.

1990: Tupac joins Digital Underground as a rodie/dancer/rapper.  While on tour, he learns that his mother is using crack.

January 3, 1991: Tupac makes his recording debut on DU's.  This is an E.P. Release.

November 12, 1991: 2Pacaplypse Now is released.  Shortly thereafter, Tupac files a $10 million lawsuit against the Oakland police for alleged brutality following an arrest for jaywalking.

January 17, 1992: Tupac makes his big-screen debut in Ernest Dickerson's Juice, earning praise for his portrayal of Bishop.  He is perhaps best remembered for the line "I am crazy, and I don't give a f*ck!"

April 11, 1992: 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: Tupac has an altercation with old acquaintances in Marine City.  A 6 year old bystander is shot in the head.   Tupac's half brother, Maurice Harding is arrested but released due to lack of evidence.

September 22, 1992: Tupac 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.

March 13, 1993: Tupac has a fight with a limo driver in Hollywood who accuses him of using drugs in the car.  Tupac's arrested but the charges are dropped.

April 5, 1993:  Tupac is arrested in Lansing Michigan, 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 Tupac and Janet Jackson, is released.  Before filming began, Jackson demanded Shakur take an HIV test before she would do any kissing scenes.

October 31, 1993: Tupac is arrested for allegedly shooting two off-duty Atlanta police officers who he says were harassing a black motorist.  Charges are eventually dropped.

November 18, 1993: A 19 year old woman, whom Tupac picked up 4 days earlier in a New York nightclub, is allegedly sodomized and sexually abused by the rapper and 3 of his friends.

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