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.
AFENI SHAKUR, MOTHER OF HIP HOP LEGEND TUPAC, DEAD AT 69. A memorial service is expected to follow in Lumberton, N.C., where some of Tupac's ashes were laid to rest after his drive-by shooting death in 1996, the source said.