Bond insurance. Bond insurance (also known as financial guaranty insurance) is a type of insurance whereby an insurance company guarantees scheduled payments of interest and principal on a bond or other security in the event of a payment default by the issuer of the bond or security.
Tupac Shakur dies. Hip hop star Tupac Shakur dies on September 13, 1996 of gunshot wounds suffered in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting. More than a decade after his death on this day in 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur remains one of the most recognizable faces and voices in hip-hop.
Murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1996, is valued at $7m (4.5m), putting him ahead of screen icon Marilyn Monroe. Crossing over. Shakur has now had more albums released since his death than when he was alive, having left 200 tracks unpublished before he was shot.