2001 - Michael Jackson opens up the NASDAQ Stock Market in Times Square, in New York. Hundreds of Fans show up to see Michael Jackson ring the bell on Wall Street. Just before the market opened at 9:30 am Michael entered wearing a respectable black suit with a blue armband. He blew kisses to the hundreds of fans that were outside crowding around the building’s glass walls and windows while he was introduced to NASDAQ’s executive vice president David Weild and NASDAQ CEO Wick Simmons. When Simmons presented Michael with a glass trophy Michael commented:
“It’s like floating in the air,” speaking of an object encased in the trophy.
“Well, you’re floating,” Simmons told him, “right now, out there, in Times Square, on the big billboard that’s up out there. You are floating so that everyone can see you.”
After Michael pushed the button to open the market, NASDAQ officials presented him with a vanilla birthday cake decorated with strawberries and a 1934 Shirley Temple poster.
“I love it, oh my God,” he exclaimed. He then blew out the candles on the cake , and sang “Happy Birthday.” He said,
“I’m deeply moved by this very special moment for me. Thank you, David, Wick and NASDAQ. Thank you so much. I love you and all the fans. Thank you.”
Before he left the building he was taken on a brief tour of the NASDAQ broadcast studio, ate a piece of cake and talked and posed for pictures with some of the staffers.
Weild said, “The NASDAQ Stock Market recognizes Michael Jackson for his extraordinary vision and commitment to excellence in the entertainment industry as well as being a humanitarian who is continually seeking creative avenues in which to help others.”
The NASDAQ MarketSite building is located at 4 Times Square, at the corner of 43rd and Broadway.
Nine plasma screens outline the broadcast studio, facing the street, for fans not positioned close to the windows. MarketSite Tower, which is seven stories tall and is the largest stationary video wall in the world, featured a live broadcast of this historic moment with Michael Jackson.
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1969 - The Jackson 5ive perform at a festival conceived by Mayor Hatcher, the first black Mayor, supporting Yvonne Fair at Gilroy Stadium.
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1974 - The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the tenth of fourteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
1992 - On his Dangerous World Tour, Michael Jackson plays to a capacity audience of over 32,000 at the Southwest Stadium in Ludwigshafen, Germany
1993 - The second show of the Dangerous Tour in Singapore was cancelled. The Jackson family held a press conference in the U.S. Jermaine Jackson read a statement in support of his brother Michael before announcing that the Family plans for a special: The Jackson Family Honors.
2004 - At the Olympic Stadium in Greece, as the games came to an end and made way for the closing ceremony. A huge party was staged featuring lots of music, mixing classics with the new and containing a spectacular array of dazzling fireworks along with lots of confetti and balloons.
One of the highlights of the evening came from gold medallists US women’s soccer team, who got up on stage and danced to a rap version of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.
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AUGUST 30th was the date of Michael’s 45th Birthday Party.
2003 - The King of Pop Michael Jackson celebrated his 45th birthday with his beloved Fans for the very first time! The party, which was called “Michael Jackson…A Celebration of Love,” took place inside the beautiful Orpheum Theater located at 842 S. Broadway in Los Angeles, California. Held in his honor the party was attended by fans and friends from all over the world and Michael gave a heartfelt thank you speech dedicated to his fans.
“Over the years we became a family. You are all my family. My children are your children and all children of the world are our children and our responsibility.
This is a time when a person reflects on the child that will always live inside him, but more importantly, the grown man that continues to emerge intellectually, but never lost his child-like innocence.
A lot of what you’ll be seeing from me in the future will celebrate the youthful imagination that has always been a part of who I am, but also the adult perspective of a father and artist and member of our community. My birthday wish is that you, my fans, will join me in some new undertakings and that we all travel into a bright future together. I feel young enough to look into the future with great optimism.”
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2012 - Cirque du Soleil opens their seventh of ten nights of the Michael Jackson “THE IMMORTAL” World Tour International performance at the Palacio de los Deportes, in Mexico City Mexico.
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To hear him thank his fans about supporting him in difficult times and not even realizing that in a few months his world would come crashing down again - breaks my heart. 🙁