October 17, 1972: He was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III on October 17, 1972, in Saint Joseph, Missouri, as the son of Deborah Nelson Mathers-Briggs and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October 17, 1972: "Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born 17 October 1972) more widely known by his stage names Eminem and Slim Shady is an Academy Award-winning and Grammy-winning American rapper." - Eminem, Wikiquote.

October 17, 1972: Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972),^[1] better known by his stage name Eminem (Stylized EMINƎM), or Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1990s: In the mid 1990s, rap superstar Eminem was an underground Detroit rapper and released two albums before being signed; Infinite and The Slim Shady EP. - Midwest hip hop, Wikipedia.

1992: Mathers was initially signed to FBT Productions in 1992, run by brothers Jeff and Mark Bass. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1995: They later changed their name to "Soul Intent" and around 1995 they released their first single called "Fuckin' Backstabber" under the record label Mashin' Duck Records. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1996: His debut album Infinite, which was recorded at the Bassmint, a recording studio owned by the Bass Brothers, was released under their independent label Web Entertainment. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1997: Otherwize defeated Eminem to win the 1997 Rap Olympics. - Project Blowed, Wikipedia.

1997: Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Interscope Records, requested a demo tape of Eminem's after Eminem won second place at the 1997 Rap Olympics. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

March, 1998: Hip-hop magazine The Source featured Eminem in its "Unsigned Hype" column in March 1998. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1998: After being signed to Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records in 1998, Eminem released his first major studio album, The Slim Shady LP, heavily based on the production by Dr. Dre, one year later in 1999. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1999: He and his manager Paul Rosenberg created Shady Records in late 1999. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1999: Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP, which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1999: It went on to be one of the most popular albums of 1999, going triple platinum by the end of the year. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1999: Mathers' mother sued him for around US$10 million over alleged slander about her in his lyrics regarding The Slim Shady LP; she won only about US$1,600 in damages in 2001. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

1999: It features rapper Eminem and was released as a single posthumously in 1999. - Dead Wrong (song), Wikipedia.

1999: Eminem and his manager Paul Rosenberg founded the label in 1999 after the release of The Slim Shady LP. - Shady Records, Wikipedia.

May, 2000: The Marshall Mathers LP was released in May 2000. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2000: He also addresses the charges he faced over assaulting a bouncer he saw kissing his wife in 2000. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

June 3, 2000: Mathers was arrested on June 3, 2000 during an altercation at a car audio store in Royal Oak, Michigan, with Douglas Dail, where he pulled out an unloaded gun and kept it pointed at the ground. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2000s: According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2000: Scott attempted suicide and sued the rapper for defamation after he depicted her violent death in his song "Kim". - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2000: The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by American rapper Eminem, released in 2000. - The Marshall Mathers LP, Wikipedia.

2000: Eminem for The Slim Shady LP - Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, Wikipedia.

2000: "And Dr. Dre said ... nothing, you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!" - Eminem, Wikiquote.

2000: The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) - Eminem, Wikipedia.

July, 2000: Eminem became the first white person to be featured on the cover of The Source magazine. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October, 2000: She is best known for trying to prevent Eminem from entering Canada for a concert in October 2000 because of his misogynist lyrics, a move supported by then Ontario Attorney General Jim Flaherty, and Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Michael Bryant, Attorney General critic. - Valerie Smith, Wikipedia.

2001: Although he had a brief cameo in the 2001 film, The Wash, Eminem made his official Hollywood acting debut with the semi-autobiographical 8 Mile, released in November 2002. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2001: Dre and Eminem Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 2001 Grammy Awards. - 2001 (album), Wikipedia.

2001: Eminem for The Marshall Mathers LP - Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, Wikipedia.

2001: In the summer of 2001, Mathers' legal troubles continued, as he was given probation on weapons charges that stemmed from an argument with an employee of Psychopathic Records, giving him a fine around $2,000 as well as several hours of community service. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2001: Devil's Night is the debut album by Detroit hip hop group D12, released on June 19, 2001 and executive produced by Eminem. - Devil's Night (album), Wikipedia.

2001: Goldberg cited a 2001 column by Bob Herbert of The New York Times claiming, "In Eminem's world, all women are whores and he is eager to rape and murder them."^[58] The Eminem song "No One's Iller" from The Slim Shady EP was used by Goldberg as an example of misogyny in his music. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2002: He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Lose Yourself" from the film 8 Mile, in which he also played the lead. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2002: Eminem's third major album, The Eminem Show, was released in summer 2002 and proved to be another hit for the rapper reaching number one on the charts and selling well over 1 million copies in its first week of release. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2002: His group-mate Proof from D12 stated that Mathers "sobered up" in 2002 from drug and alcohol dependence. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2002: Eminem signed 50 Cent through a joint venture between Shady and Dr. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2002: The other two were Snoop Doggy Dogg in 1994, with Doggystyle and the Murder Was The Case soundtrack, and Eminem in 2002 with The Eminem Show and the 8 Mile soundtrack. - Get Rich or Die Tryin' (soundtrack), Wikipedia.

2002: All Access Europe is a video album released by Eminem in 2002. - All Access Europe, Wikipedia.

2003: He recorded several new songs for the soundtrack, including "Lose Yourself", which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2003. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2003: Eminem for The Eminem Show - Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, Wikipedia.

December 8, 2003: The Media Research Center, which was founded by a conservative activist and is funded by conservative foundations, claims that on December 8, 2003, the United States Secret Service admitted it was "looking into" allegations that Eminem had threatened the President of the United States. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2004: Eminem was the Executive Producer of 2Pac's posthumous album Loyal to the Game with 2Pac's mother Afeni Shakur. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2004: The year 2004 saw the release of Eminem's fourth major album, Encore. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2004s: He released his first album since 2004's Encore, titled Relapse, on May 15, 2009. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October 25, 2004: A week before the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Eminem released the video for "Mosh" on the Internet. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October 12, 2004: A week after the release of "Just Lose It", Eminem's first single off Encore, Michael Jackson called into the Los Angeles-based Steve Harvey radio show to report his displeasure with the video, which parodies Jackson's child molestation trial, plastic surgery, and an incident in which Jackson's hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

November 2, 2004: However, once the army breaks in, it is revealed that they are there to simply register to vote, and the video ends with the words "VOTE Tuesday November 2" on the screen. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

November 12, 2004: Eminem's fourth major studio album, Encore is released four days before planned to combat bootleggers. - 2004 in music, Wikipedia.

2005: Speculation began in early 2005 about a double-disc album to be released late that year, rumored to be titled The Funeral. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2005: Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2005: Eminem was a subject of Bernard Goldberg's book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America; he ranked #58. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2005: Some industry insiders speculated that Eminem was considering ending his rapping career after six years and several multi-platinum albums. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2005: Eminem signed another Atlanta rapper, Bobby Creekwater, to his label along with West Coast rapper Cashis. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2005: Alchemist was signed on as the official tour DJ for Eminem on the 2005 Anger Management 3 Tour, replacing the recently-ousted DJ Green Lantern. - The Alchemist (producer), Wikipedia.

2005: Alchemist was signed on as the official tour DJ for Eminem on the 2005 Anger Management 3 Tour, replacing the recently-ousted DJ Green Lantern. - Shady Records, Wikipedia.

2005: Since 2005, Eminem had intended to take a break from recording his own music in order to become a hip hop producer for other rap acts, especially for the artists signed on his own label Shady Records. - Relapse (album), Wikipedia.

2005: Curtain Call: The Hits is a 2005 greatest hits compilation album by the rapper Eminem. - Curtain Call: The Hits, Wikipedia.

July, 2005: The Detroit Free Press broke news of a potential final bow for Eminem as a solo performer, quoting members of his inside circle who said that he will begin to fully embrace the role of producer and label executive. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

August, 2005: This caused Mathers to cancel the European leg of the Anger Management Tour in August 2005 and eventually go into rehab for treatment for a "dependency on sleep medication". - Eminem, Wikipedia.

August, 2005: Eminem canceled the European leg of the tour and subsequently announced that he had entered drug rehabilitation for treatment for a "dependency on sleep medication". - Eminem, Wikipedia.

December 6, 2005: The album manifested itself as a greatest hits album under the name Curtain Call: The Hits, and was released on December 6, 2005 under Aftermath Entertainment. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

January, 2006: They remarried in January 2006 but their second divorce was finalized in December of the same year, agreeing to share custody of their daughter, Hailie Jade Scott (born December 25, 1995). - Eminem, Wikipedia.

April, 2006: D12 member Deshaun "Proof" Holton was killed in a club brawl on 8 Mile Road in Detroit, Michigan, involving U.S. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2006: Eminem rapped a verse in a live performance of Busta Rhymes' "Touch It" remix at the 2006 BET Music Awards on June 27, 2006. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

, 2006: Westlife didn't last long at the top and later got replaced by rapstar Akon with Smack That which featured the rap music legend Eminem; this was Akon's second and Eminem's seventh number one single. - 2006 in British music charts, Wikipedia.

August 15, 2006: Obie Trice released Second Round's on Me. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

December 5, 2006: Shady Records released compilation album, Eminem Presents: The Re-Up. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2007: Jackson and Sony bought Famous Music LLC from Viacom. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2007: Eminem's music publishing company Eight Mile Style LLC together with Martin Affiliated LLC filed suit against Apple, Inc and Aftermath Entertainment claiming Aftermath did not have the appropriate authority to negotiate a deal with Apple for digital downloads of 93 songs by rapper Eminem on Apple's iTunes service. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

September, 2007: Eminem called into New York radio station Hot 97 during a 50 Cent interview and said he was "in limbo" and "debating" about when and if he would release another album. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2008: Common made an estimated 12 million dollars, making him equal in earnings to Eminem and Akon, tied for the 13th highest grossing Hip-Hop artist. - Common (entertainer), Wikipedia.

2008s: He was also in the running for the part of David Rice in 2008's film Jumper after Tom Sturridge was dropped just 2 weeks before filming. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2008: The readers of Vibe Magazine voted him "The Best Rapper Alive". - Eminem, Wikipedia.

September, 2008: Eminem made an appearance on his Sirius channel Shade 45 in September 2008 in which he said, "Right now I'm kinda just concentrating on my own stuff, for right now and just banging out tracks and producing a lot of stuff. You know, the more I keep producing the better it seems like I get 'cause I just start knowing stuff."^[62] It was around this time that Interscope finally confirmed the existence of a new Eminem album,^[63] with Spring 2009 later being stated as the period span in which the album is due. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October 21, 2008: Eminem released a tell-all autobiography entitled The Way I Am, which details his struggles with poverty, drugs, fame, heartbreak and depression, along with stories about his rise to fame and commentary on past controversies. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

December, 2008: Dre told MTV in December 2008 that the album will be released after Eminem's Relapse, which was released in May 2009 and 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct which was released in November 2009. - Detox (Dr. Dre album), Wikipedia.

December, 2008: He gave more details on the album, which he recently reported was being titled Relapse. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

March 5, 2009: Eminem reported in a press release that he would be releasing two new albums this year. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

May 19, 2009: Relapse, the first album, was released on May 19, while "We Made You", the first official single and its music video, were released on April 7. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2009: In December, 2009 Eminem was named the Artist of the Decade by Billboard Magazine. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2009: He also had a cameo appearance in the 2009 movie Funny People. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2009: Relapse was named one of the top albums of 2009. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2009: Carey released "Obsessed" in which she sings about an obsessed man who claims to be having a relationship with her. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2009: The Flaming Lips also appeared as one of the headliners at Voodoo Fest 2009 alongside acts such as Eminem and Kiss. - The Flaming Lips, Wikipedia.

2009: Eminem becomes the highest selling artist of 2009 so far with the release of Relapse. - 2009 in hip hop, Wikipedia.

2009: In the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Sacha Baron Cohen descended down wearing an angel's costume and landed on top of Eminem with his buttocks facing towards Eminem's face. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2009: On the front cover of Eminem's 2009 album Relapse there is a mock prescription label, the number 313 appears under quantity. - Area code 313, Wikipedia.

September 15, 2009: Canadian rapper Drake also released his collaboration with Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem called "Forever" on September 15, 2009. - More Than a Game (soundtrack), Wikipedia.

September, 2009: The case against Apple went to trial in late September 2009 and was settled a few days later. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

September 19, 2009: Lauper performed a duet with Leona Lewis on VH1 Divas on September 19, 2009 singing "True Colors" and also appeared along side hip hop artist Eminem for a comedy skit at the MTV VMA's in September 2009. - Cyndi Lauper, Wikipedia.

October 30, 2009: Eminem performed at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans as a headliner in his first full performance in 2009. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October 3, 2009: Eminem appeared once again on Shade 45 with DJ Whoo Kid and announced that Denaun Porter and Just Blaze were very busy working on Relapse 2. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

October 3, 2009: Eminem appeared on Shade 45 with DJ Whoo Kid where he stated that a track with 50 Cent, in which the two rap together on verses, existed. - American Nighmare (album), Wikipedia.

November 8, 2009: It was reported on November 8, 2009 that Eminem will star in the upcoming 3D horror anthology, Shady Talez, directed by John Davis. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

November 19, 2009: Eminem announced on his website that Relapse: Refill will be released on December 21. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2010: In early 2010 Eminem responded publicly to tabloid reports of his pending reunion with Kim with a firm denial. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2010: He then won the award again in 2010 for his album Relapse, giving him a total of 11 Grammys in his career. - Eminem, Wikipedia.

2010: A four-issue comic book series based on the film is also expected to be published sometime in 2010. - Eminem, Wikipedia.