2013 Event Shuanghui, a Chinese meat processing company, buys Smithfield Foods for $4.72 billion; Smithfield was the world's largest meat processing company 2006 Event Google buys YouTube.com for $1.6 billion 1997 Event Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service 1997 Event Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million 1997 Event Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers 1997 Event Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million 1996 Event Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million 1995 Event Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million 1995 Event Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M 1994 Death Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85 1994 Event Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000 1994 Event Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field) 1990 Event H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M 1989 Event British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain 1987 Event Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000 1987 Event Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million 1986 Event Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million 1985 Event Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000 1985 Event Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million 1983 Event Belgium buys 44 F-16s 1982 Event John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to New Jersey 1979 Event Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million 1975 Event Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn 1974 Event Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000 1974 Event McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres 1974 Event Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million 1973 Event The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass 1973 Event George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million 1969 Event Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips 1969 Event Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000 1964 Event CBS purchases 80% of Yankees for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20% 1962 Event William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000 1960 Event Radio - TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers 1960 Event Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R. 1955 Event John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) 1953 Event Baltimore Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000 1953 Event August A. Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million 1951 Event Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt 1948 Event Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians 1945 Event Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series and is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs 1943 Event William D. Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies 1929 Event CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City 1918 Event Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 1915 Event CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for 6,600 pounds 1907 Event Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus 1903 Event Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000 1902 Event U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million 1898 Event Henry Huntington buys LA Railway 1896 Event Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times 1895 Birthday Izak Buys, cricketer, one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 and 4*, 0-52 1893 Death Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65 1890 Death Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72 1882 Event Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo 1878 Event Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 1867 Event U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 1847 Event United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon 1828 Birthday Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer 1825 Event Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community 1817 Birthday Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI 1805 Event Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx 1801 Birthday William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, 1861 - 1869, buys Alaska at 2 cents per acre 1770 Event Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname 1755 Event Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief 1717 Event Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles 1630 Event New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island 1626 Event Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24 1626 Event Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets 1616 Event Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England 1594 Death Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62 1475 Event Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts
