2006 Google buys YouTube.com for $1.6 billion
1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service
1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 Les Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets buys NHL's Edmonton Oilers
1997 Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
1995 Spanish Broadcasting System buys New York radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
1994 Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at 85
1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
1990 H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1987 Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1985 Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million
1983 Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1982 John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to NJ
1979 Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1975 Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
1974 Austr National Gallery buys W de Kooning's "Woman V" for $850,000
1974 McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres
1974 Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million
1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR and moves station from New York City to Scituate Mass
1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1969 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
1969 Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000
1964 CBS purchases 80% of Yanks for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20%
1962 William DeWitt buys Cin Reds for $4,625,000
1960 Radio-TV exec John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Det Tigers
1960 Cuba buys oil from U.S.S.R.
1955 John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1953 Balt Mayor D'Alesandro buys Veeck's interest in Browns for $2,475,000
1953 August A. Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million
1951 Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt
1948 Hank Greenberg buys an interest in the Cleveland Indians
1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1945 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 William D. Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies
1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City
1918 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
1915 CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for 6,600 pounds
1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus
1903 Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
1902 U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1898 Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
1896 Adolph Ochs (39) buys New York Times
1895 Izak Buys, cricketer, one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 and 4*, 0-52
1893 Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer, dies at 65
1890 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72
1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1867 U.S. buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
1847 United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon
1828 Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1817 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI
1805 Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1801 William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, 1861-69, buys Alaska at 2 cents /acre
1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1755 Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
1630 New Amsterdam's governor buys Gull Island from Indians for cargo, renames it Oyster Island, it is later known as Ellis Island
1626 Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
1626 Dutch colonist Paul Minuit buys Manhattan for $24 in trinkets
1616 Netherlands buys De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England
1594 Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1475 Treaty of Picquigny] king Louis XI buys English contacts
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