in 1928: Jack Kevorkian was born on May 26 in Pontiac. Named Murad Kevorkian at birth by their Armenian immigrant parents, he is first in her family to attend college.
1952: Kevorkian, his medical degree from the University of Michigan.
1956: Kevorkian is serving the moniker "Dr. Death" when he is conducting a study for photographing the patient's eyes as they died. The results show blood vessels in the cornea contract and become invisible as the heart stops beating.
in 1958: Kevorkian authors a paper proposing the death sentenced prisoners be euthanized and their bodily organs harvested.
1989: Kevorkian announced publicly he has created a suicide machine that allows terminally ill patients kill themselves in a humane and painless way. Oakland County Prosecutor Gerald Poisson says no to provide such a device can be charged with murder.
1990: In his first assisted suicide using Kevorkian machine on Janet Adkins, 54, in Portland, ore. Alzheimer's patient dies June 4 in Kevorkian's van in groveland Oaks Park. Oakland County Circuit Judge Alice Gilbert issuing the temporary restraining order against him several days later, forbid him to construct or operate the suicide machines. He will be charged later with their murders in Adkins ' death, but a judge rules prosecutors failed to reveal Kevorkian had planned and carried out the Adkins's death.
1991: Kevorkian leads police to two women who say he committed a suicide at a secluded assisted Oakland County cottage. Meanwhile, legislators are debating legislation banning assisted suicide in Michigan. State Board of medicine yanks Kevorkian's medical license, and he sues to get it back.
(1992): Kevorkian is charged with murder in the women's deaths, but the charges thrown out. Michigan legislature passes a Bill forbidding assisted suicide, designed specifically to stop Kevorkian's activities
(1993): Kevorkian charged with assisting in the Thomas w. Hyde Jr. Kevorkian is imprisoned twice that year, and during his second imprisonment, he embarks on an 18-day fast. His bail reduced and paid by Geoffrey Fieger, who is national notoriety of Kevorkian's lawyer. Kevorkian guilty not of Hyde's death.
1994-1995: The Supreme Court in Michigan defending the law which made assisted suicide a crime, and the US Supreme Court refuses to hear Kevorkian's appeal.
1996: Kevorkian continues to contribute to suicide, later reveals he was involved in about 130 deaths. Kevorkian again is charged with murder and is acquitted.
1998: Kevorkian, CBS's 60 Minutes to tape the lethal injection of Thomas Youk, a patient who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. Oakland County prosecutors bring a second-degree murder charge against Kevorkian, who served as his own attorney in the proceedings.
1999: An Oakland County jury convicts second-degree murder and illegal Kevorkian delivery of a controlled substance. He is sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison.
2000-2003: Kevorkian will appeal the conviction. Michigan appellate Court confirms it, and the Supreme Court in Michigan declines to review the appellate court's decision. Kevorkian is to appeal the matter to the United States Supreme Court, but it declines to review the case.
2007: Kevorkian, claiming that he is seriously ill, was paroled in June after eight years in prison.
2009: Kevorkian makes national headlines when he defends Michael Jackson's doctor in September. Dr. Conrad Murray was examined after the singer's June death.
2010: You Don t know, Jack, HBO's biopic on Kevorkian with Al Pacino, is released in the spring. It picks up 16 Emmy nominations later in 15 categories, including outstanding TV movie. Pacino won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Kevorkian.
2011: Kevorkian, who never married, is in the hospital several times with kidney and heart problems. He dies on June 3 at age 83 at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak.
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