Simpson, now 70, was imprisoned in Nevada for armed robbery before he was freed on parole early on Sunday.
– 1967: Simpson leads all college running backs in rushing in his first season at the University of Southern California.
– 1968: Simpson wins the Heisman Trophy, college football’s top honor.
– 1969: The first pick in the pro draft, Simpson goes to the Buffalo Bills and spends the next nine seasons with the team.
– 1973: He becomes the first NFL player to rush for 2,000 or more yards (2,003) in a season.
– 1979: Simpson retires, having rushed for 11,236 yards, second-most in NFL history at the time.
– 1985: Simpson is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
– 1988: Simpson, who had been appearing in TV shows and commercials since the late 1960s, co-stars as Officer Nordberg in the first of three Naked Gun movies – probably his most popular role.
– February 1992: Nicole Brown Simpson files for divorce after seven years of marriage. It becomes final Oct. 15.
– June 12, 1994: Nicole Simpson and a friend, Ronald Goldman, are stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home.
– June 17, 1994: Ordered by prosecutors to surrender, Simpson instead flees with a friend in a white Ford Bronco. It’s a nationally televised slow-speed chase across California freeways until police persuade him to surrender.
– June 1995: During Simpson’s trial, a prosecutor asks him to put on a pair of gloves believed worn by the killer. The gloves appear too small, leading defense attorney Johnnie Cochran to famously state in his closing argument: “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
– Oct. 3, 1995: Simpson is acquitted of murder.
– February 1997: After a trial in a civil suit filed by the victims’ families, a jury finds Simpson liable for the deaths and orders him to pay survivors $33.5 million.
– July 2007: A federal bankruptcy judge awards the rights to a book by Simpson, in which he discusses how he could have committed the killings, to Goldman’s family as partial payment of the judgment. The family renames the book “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.”
– September 2007: Simpson, accompanied by five men, confronts two sports-memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room, angrily telling them that most of the memorabilia they are planning to sell is rightfully his.
– Oct. 3, 2008: A jury finds Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart guilty of kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and conspiracy charges. The other accomplices had taken plea deals and received probation.
– December 2008: Simpson is sentenced to nine to 33 years and sent to Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada.
– October 2010: The Nevada Supreme Court denies Simpson’s appeal but grants Stewart a new trial. Stewart takes a plea deal and is released.
– July 25, 2013: Simpson asks the Nevada Parole Board for leniency, saying he has tried to be a model prisoner. He wins parole on some convictions but is left with at least four more years to serve.
– July 20, 2017: A four-member parole board unanimously grants Simpson parole, effective Oct. 1. The board cites the low risk he might commit another crime, his community support and a release plan that includes moving to Florida, where he has family.
– Oct. 1, 2017: Just past midnight, Simpson is released from Lovelock Correctional after serving nine years for the botched hotel-room heist.