O.J. Simpson’s story represents one of the most dramatic falls from grace in the history of American pop culture.

A beloved football hero in the 1960s and ‘70s, he transitioned effortlessly to movie star, sports commentator and TV pitchman in the years that followed.

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 in the first of the “Naked Gun” crime comedies, perhaps 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 he 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.

October 1, 2017- Simpson became a free man.