- 1947
| Jul 09 | O(renthal) J(ames) Simpson SF, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)/actor, is born. | Ref: 68 |
- 1959
| Mar 09 | Kato [Brian] Kaelin actor (Beach Fever)/OJ houseguest/witness, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Nicole Brown Simpson, Frankford Germany, Mrs OJ Simpson (murdered in 1994), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1973
| Sep 16 | Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 29 | O.J. Simpson set two NFL records this day. The Buffalo Bills’ star running back ran 39 times for 157 yards -- and he rushed for a total of over 1,000 yards in only seven games. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 16 | Jim Brown’s single-season rushing record in the NFL is smashed by O.J. Simpson. Brown rushed for 1,863 yards, while ‘The Juice’ ran for 2,003 yards. | Ref: 4 |
- 1976
| Nov 25 | O. J. Simpson breaks own record of 250 yards by rushing 273 in losing game against Detroit Lions. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 05 | Buffalo Bill's OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards. | Ref: 5 |
- 1985
| Jan 23 | O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner to be elected to pro football’s Hall of Fame in Canton, OH. Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys, another Heisman winner, was also elected; but ‘the Juice’ went in first because his name comes before Staubach’s, alphabetically. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 02 | OJ Simpon marries Nicole Brown. | Ref: 24 |
| Jun 25 | A new lineup graced ABC’s Monday Night Football. Frank Gifford, in the broadcast booth, was joined by Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson. The trio was out to regain some of the show’s sagging ratings after Howard Cosell and Don Meredith exited the broadcast. | Ref: 4 |
- 1994
| Jun 12 | (OJ Simpson) Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are stabbed to death. Their bodies found in the front courtyard of the Nicole's condominium in Brentwood. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 13 | (OJ Simpson) O.J. Simpson is notified of the murders while on a business trip in Chicago. He returns to Los Angeles, is temporarily handcuffed, and taken in for questioning. Robert Shapiro is contacted on Simpson's behalf and asked to become defense counsel. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 16 | (OJ Simpson) The funerals of the victims are held. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 17 | (OJ Simpson) About to be arrested for murder, Simpson slips out of Robert Kardashian's home. He is chased by police while riding in his white Ford Bronco, driven by friend A.C. Cowlings. When he returns to his home on Rockingham, Simpson is taken into custody. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 20 | O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the killing of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend Ronald Goldman. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 24 | (OJ Simpson) Grand jury recused. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 08 | (OJ Simpson) Six-day preliminary hearing ends with Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell ruling there is sufficient evidence for O.J. Simpson to stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 22 | (OJ Simpson) O.J. pleads "absolutely 100 percent not guilty" to the charges. Judge Lance A. Ito is assigned to the hear case. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 08 | (OJ Simpson) Defense counsel files motion to obtain personnel records of Detective Mark Fuhrman. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 02 | (OJ Simpson) District attorney files motion to sequester jury. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 09 | (OJ Simpson) District attorney announces that the death penalty will not be sought. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 19 | (OJ Simpson) Judge Ito upholds the legality of the search of Simpson's home. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 03 | (OJ Simpson) Jury panel selected: eight black, one white, one hispanic, two mixed race; eight women, four men. | Ref: 87 |
| Dec 08 | (OJ Simpson) Alternate jury selected. | Ref: 87 |
- 1995
| Jan 12 | (OJ Simpson) Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 13 | (OJ Simpson) Prosecutor Christopher Darden and defense attorney Johnnie Cochran argue over racist language regarding the upcoming testimony of Mark Fuhrman. | Ref: 87 |
| Jan 24 | (OJ Simpson) Trial opens. Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden deliver opening statements. | Ref: 87 |
| Jan 25 | (OJ Simpson) The defense gave its opening statement in the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles, saying Simpson was the victim of a "rush to judgment" by authorities who had mishandled evidence and ignored witnesses. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 27 | (OJ Simpson) O.J. Simpson's book, I Want to Tell You, is published. | Ref: 87 |
| Feb 03 | (OJ Simpson) Nicole Brown's sister Denise testifies about O.J. Simpson's abuse of her sister. | Ref: 87 |
| Feb 12 | (OJ Simpson) Jurors take field trip to Simpson home and Bundy Drive crime scene.1995 0104 (OJ Simpson) | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 09 | (OJ Simpson) Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman took the stand at the O.J. Simpson murder trial, denying ever meeting a woman who had accused him of making racist remarks. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 15 | (OJ Simpson) Detective Mark Fuhrman, cross-examined by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, denies using the word "nigger" at any time in the previous ten years. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 04 | (OJ Simpson) Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., used a mock Japanese accent to ridicule O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance Ito on a nationally syndicated radio program. D'Amato apologized two days later on the Senate floor. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 11 | (OJ Simpson) L.A.P.D. criminalist Dennis Fung concedes, under cross-examination by defense attorney Barry Scheck, procedural errors. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 21 | (OJ Simpson) After three sheriff's deputies are reassigned, jurors protest. They first refuse to come to court, the show up dressed in black. | Ref: 87 |
| May 04 | (OJ Simpson) Wrongful death suit filed on behalf of the Goldmans. | Ref: 87 |
| May 10 | (OJ Simpson) DNA testimony begins. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 15 | (OJ Simpson) During his murder trial, O.J. Simpson struggled to don a pair of gloves that prosecutors said were worn by the killer of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 06 | (OJ Simpson) The prosecution rests. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 10 | (OJ Simpson) The defense calls its first witness, Arnelle Simpson, O.J. Simpson's daughter. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 15 | (OJ Simpson) Controversy over possible conflict of interest concerning Judge Ito. Marchia Clark asks Ito to recuse himself from Simpson trial. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 16 | (OJ Simpson) Clark changes her mind on Ito recusal. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 18 | (OJ Simpson) Superior court judge John Reid rules that Captain York's testimony is not relevant to Simpson trial. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 29 | (OJ Simpson) Fuhrman tapes played in court, with jury absent. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 31 | (OJ Simpson) Judge Ito rules that jury will hear two excerpts of controversial tapes. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 06 | (OJ Simpson) The jury hears excerpts from Fuhrman tapes. With jury absent, Mark Fuhrman appears on stand. He refuses to answer questions, citing his Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 07 | (OJ Simpson) The defense announces that Simpson won't testify on his own behalf. The defense asks Judge Ito to instruct jury as to reason for Fuhrman's further nonappearance. Judge agrees, but prosecution objects. The question is appealed. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 08 | (OJ Simpson) Appeals court rejects Ito's jury instruction. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 11 | (OJ Simpson) Defense refuses to rest their case due to the unresolved question of judge's instruction to jury concerning Fuhrman. Judge Ito orders prosecution to begin its rebuttal. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 18 | (OJ Simpson) Prosecution conditionally rests its case. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 19 | (OJ Simpson) Detective Vannatter is cross-examined by Shapiro on statements he made to mob informants about why police went to O.J. Simpson's residence. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 21 | (OJ Simpson) Both defense and prosecution rest their cases. In a statement to judge waiving his right to testify, Simpson says "I did not, could not, and would not have committed this crime." Judge Ito gives jury instructions. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 26 | (OJ Simpson) (and 27th) Clark and Darden deliver prosecution's closing arguments. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 27 | (OJ Simpson) (and 28th) Cochran and Scheck deliver defense's closing arguments. Cochran makes controversial statements to the jury comparing Fuhrman to Hitler. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 29 | (OJ Simpson) The case goes to the jury. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 02 | (OJ Simpson) O.J. Simpson's jurors stunned the courtroom and the nation by reaching verdicts in the sensational eight-month murder trial in less than four hours. The decision was kept secret until the following day when it was announced that Simpson was acquitted. (XDG, p 4A, 10/2/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 11 | (OJ Simpson) O.J. Simpson backs out of his live interview with NBC just hours before air time. (Xenia Daily Gazette, p. 4A, 10/11/2000) | Ref: 62 |
- 1996
| May 13 | (OJ Simpson) OJ Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 02 | (OJ Simpson) Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a certain racial slur in the past decade. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 23 | (OJ Simpson) The civil trial of O.J. Simpson opened in Santa Monica, CA. Simpson was later found liable in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 22 | (OJ Simpson) Simpson testifies before a jury for the first time. He denies killing Goldman or his former wife, but cannot explain the physical evidence against him. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 25 | (OJ Simpson) Testifying for a second day at a civil trial, O.J. Simpson again denied killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, but couldn't explain how blood believed to be the victims' got into his Bronco, or how he suffered hand cuts. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
| Nov 26 | (OJ Simpson) O.J. Simpson finished three days of testimony at a civil trial in Santa Monica, CA. President Clinton ended his 12-day Pacific trip with a stopover in Thailand. Major-league baseball owners reversed course, approving the same collective bargaining agreement they had rejected just three weeks earlier. (TWA, 1998) | Ref: 95 |
| Dec 09 | (OJ Simpson) Fred Goldman, Ron's father, testifies. Plaintiffs rest. | Ref: 87 |
| Dec 20 | (OJ Simpson) Simpson awarded custody of his children by an Orange County judge. | Ref: 87 |
- 1997
| Jan 10 | (OJ Simpson) Simpson on the stand again. | Ref: 87 |
| Jan 16 | (OJ Simpson) Both sides rest. Jury has heard 101 witnesses over 41 days of testimony. | Ref: 87 |
| Jan 21 | (OJ Simpson) Closing argument of Daniel Petrocelli for the plaintiffs. Petrocelli points at Simpson and says, "There's a killer in this courtroom." | Ref: 87 |
| Jan 22 | (OJ Simpson) Closing argument by Robert Baker, representing Simpson. | Ref: 87 |
| Feb 04 | (OJ Simpson) In Santa Monica, California, a civil trial jury finds Orenthal James Simpson, a former professional football star, liable for the battery of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and the slaying of her friend, Ronald L. Goldman and awards plaintiffs $8.5 million in in compensatory damages. | Ref: 3 |
| Feb 10 | (OJ Simpson) O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 12 | (OJ Simpson) Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 26 | (OJ Simpson) Court orders Simpson to turn over his assets, including 1968 Heisman trophy, a Warhol painting, and his golf clubs. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 14 | (OJ Simpson) The Brentwood estate of OJ Simpson is auctioned off (and the new owner soon demolishes it). | Ref: 87 |
- 1998
| Jun 30 | (OJ Simpson) Simpson's attorneys appeal wrongful death award against him, calling award "excessive and the clear result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury." | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 02 | (OJ Simpson) Brown and Goldman families split proceeds from an auction of O. J. Simpson's belongings. | Ref: 87 |
- 1999
| May 10 | (OJ Simpson) O. J. Simpson and the Browns negotiate a custody arrangement for the two Simpson children. | Ref: 87 |
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