1973 - The Jackson 5's Skywriter on the Motown label hit the Billboard Charts where it began a 16 week run. It would peak at #44 on Billboard's Top LPs in the US & #15 on Top Soul Albums.
1973 - Michael is on the cover of Music Star magazine.
1974 - The Jackson Family including LaToya,Randy,and little Janet plays the fifth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas,Nevada.
1975 - The Jackson family plays the 6th of ten nights at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
1979 - The Jacksons kick off the US leg of their Destiny Tour at the Palace Theater (Connor Palace) in Cleveland,Ohio. They add "Shake Your Body" to the setlist as the final song.
1982 - Michael & Paul McCartney start recording the song "The Girl Is Mine" in Los Angeles. Michael meets Matt Forger during this session. They will work together until 1997.
1984 - Jermaine Jackson's first album for Arista Dynamite contains a new duet with Michael titled "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming (Too Good To Be True)" but Epic does not give permission to Arista to release it as a single.
1984 - Michael is among the guests when Cyndi Laupet performs at the TJ Martell Foundation Annual Gala which serves to raise funds for research & innovative treatments in the fight against leukemia,cancer,and AIDS. Michael presents Tony Martell with a check for $500,000 for the Foundation which will equip a 19 bed unit at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
1984 - Weird Al Yankovic's parody "Eat It" peaked at #12 on the Billboard charts. Michael was a big fan of Yankovic & Yankovic claimed Michael "had always been very supportive" of his work. Jackson twice allowed him to parody his songs ("Beat It" and "Bad" became "Eat It" and "Fat" respectively). When Michael granted Yankovic permission to do "Fat" he allowed him to use the same set built for his own "Badder" video from the Moonwalker video.
1984 - Michael is on the cover of Jours de France (France) magazine.
1988 - The video for "Dirty Diana" is premiered on MTV. It was filmed in Long Beach,California.
1988 - Michael plays the 2nd of three nights at The Omni Coliseum (closed-1997) in Atlanta,Georgia.
1989 - At the 1st Annual World Music Awards in Monaco Michael accepts two awards presented by Whitney Houston via satellite from Neverland. He receives am important honor which is the "Philips Hall Of Fame Award For Special Achievement in Video" for his "enormous contribution on the state of the art of video" and his "consistent artistic" and technical excellence in all forms of video and for raising the standard of the art form to new horizons". He also wins the World Music Video Award for #1 Video In The World "Dirty Diana".
1993 - Michael visits the Hasbro toy factory in Pawtucket,Rhode Island to witness how toys are made. He arrived at Hasbro headquarters in the afternoon around 3:30 p.m. in a sedan driven by a friend. They had arrived from Boston with no other entourage. He checked out the production line and fun room where toys are tested as well as visited with children and signed autographs for them.
"I met Michael Jackson when he stopped at the Hasbro Toy Factory in Pawtucket" says one employee. "He was a very pleasant man who spoke to everyone. I was working on one of the toy lines when he passed by and he asked me what toys I was working on. He signed an autograph for me on a piece of a toy cutout".
"It was really really exciting" recalls Paulette Robertson employee in sales marketing for the Children's Division. "He was very simple he wore black moccasins,white socks,black pants,a hat. He didn't take his glasses off. He was very nice."
The presence of Michael Jackson provoked more reactions than the appearance of basketball star Magic Johnson a few months earlier:
"It was crazy" Fisher explained "some people were running around saying "You're the best we love you" a woman pretended to die".
"Michael Jackson must have signed more than a hundred autographs" testified Wayne Charness. One of them for the secretary of Charness was written on an annual report.
Hasbro never made a Michael Jackson doll and there was no plans to make one. "Michael just wanted to see how the toys are made" Charness explained.
1994 - Michael sees Stomp at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village,NYC.
1998 - Michael is seen shopping at the Virgin Megastore in Los Angeles. He buys some video games.
2005 - Trial Day 32
Michael goes to court with Katherine. Janet Arvizo - Jacksons testimony goes on.
2009 - Juliens opens the "King of Pop: A Once in a Lifetime Public Exhibition Featuring Property From the Life and Career of Michael Jackson and Neverland Ranch".
2009 - Michael has a meeting with Leonard Rowe & Joe Jackson at 7AM (PST) at his home in Beverly Hills and signs the letter addressed to Randy Phillips of AEG to advise him that he he has appointed Leonard Rowe.
This is the first time Joe saw his son Michael's returned from Bahrain in 2006. Joe lectured Michael about hiring Leonard Rowe as his manager and doing the Family Shown with AllGood Entertainment with his siblings. MJ signed the letter still dated March 25. Michael made amendments in the letter appointing Leonard Rowe only to oversee financial aspects of O2 concert.
At 8:30 Michael flew to Las Vegas. After Michael's death Conrad Murray told police that Michael met him in his Las Vegas office where Dr.Adams administered Propofol to Michael.