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Kurt Cobain Timeline

• 1967
Kurt Donald Cobain is born at the Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen, Washington on February 20th. His parents Donald, an auto mechanic, and his mother Wendy bring him home to the nearby small town of Hoaquim, before moving to Aberdeen months later.
• 1975
His parents Donald and Wendy divorce and he stays with his mother for about a year before going to live with his dad in a trailer park in Montesano, Washington.
• 1978
After his father remarries in February, they move from the trailer into a house. In the following years Cobain's introverted yet rebellious nature grows and he is shuttled between the homes of both parents, and various aunts, uncles and grandparents.
• 1981
On his 14th birthday, his uncle Chuck gives him a choice between a bicycle and an electric guitar as a gift. Cobain chooses the latter and receives some lessons from his uncle's band mates.
• 1985
Cobain returns to live with his father in Montesano, then a few months later drops out of high school, rejects his father's idea about him joining the Navy and returns to live with his mother in Aberdeen. His mother puts him out of the house after barely a month, and he crashes with various friends and spends most of his time reading at the library and loitering under the North Aberdeen Bridge.
Cobain forms the band Fecal Matter with Dale Crover of The Melvins (a band Cobain admired) and Greg Hokanson.
• 1986
Fecal Matter plays a few small gigs locally and records a demo album at Cobain's aunt's house.
• 1987
Cobain forms a new band with high-school friend Krist Novoselic and Steve Newman. They go through a series of name changes from Sell-out, to Ted Ed Fred, to Throat Oysters, to Pen Cap Chew, before finally settling on Nirvana.
• 1988
Nirvana, which is now Cobain, Novoselic and Dale Crover, record their first demo album and release their first single "Love Buzz/Big Cheese" in October.