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Michael Jackson was the eigth child in his family.Born at 12:13 AM as Michael Joseph Jackson in Gary, Indiana, to Katherine Esther Scruse, and Joseph Walter Jackson.
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Michael Jackson begins his musical career in the Jackson 5 with some of his brothers.
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The Jackson 5 signs a record deal contract with Motown records.
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The Jackson 5 has their first hit single (Want You Back, the single sells over two million copies). (ABC 1970), (The Love You Save), and (I'll Be There) follow shortly.
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The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Michael Jackson begins his solo career however he continues to play with the Jackson 5.
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Jackson 5 kids cartoon series makes debut on ABC. It continues to air until 1973.
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While still singing with the Jackson 5, Michael puts out his first solo album (Got to Be There). It includes his first nunber one single, (Ben).
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Jackson stars in his first film as the Scarecrow in (The Wiz), an urban retelling of the classic film (The Wizard Of Oz) Diana Ross costars as Dorothy.
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Jackson gets his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance.
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Michael Jacksons realeases his album thriller. Thriller earns a record eight Grammys, and became the best selling album worldwide in 1983.
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During production of a Pepsi Cola commercial, Jackson’s scalp is burned when a pyrotechnic special effect sets his hair on fire live on stage. Audience members help him set out the fire. he is rushed to the hospital.
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Jackson, Lionel Richie, and 43 other singers record what becomes one of the fastest-selling singles ever: “We Are the World.” Written by Jackson and Richie, the song was produced to raise money for victims of the famine in Ethiopia. The same year, Jackson pays $47.5 million for the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon, and Paul McCartney.
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Jackson pays $14.6 million for a 2500 acre property in Santa Barbara Calif in wine country. He names it Neverland and creates a sprawling childrens playground, complete with amusement park rides, and a zoo.
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Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic.
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Michael Jacksons first child is born, he is named Prince Michael Jackson Jr.
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Michael Jackson, and his wife Rowe have a daughter together. Their daughter is named Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, however the two divorce the following year.
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Michael Jacksons 3rd child is born to him and a surrogate mother(whos identity is never revealed). The child was named Prince Michael the Second.
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Nov 18 2003: Jackson releases a greatest hits album, (Number Ones). The same day about 760 law enforcement officers spend 12 hours searching Neverland, seeking for evidence of child molestation.
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Michael Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication, after suffering cardiac arrest at his home on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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