1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
1997 Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
1997 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract
1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1995 Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed
1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1992 Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract - $4.7 mil
1991 NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike
1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets
1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
1990 Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with Los Angeles Dodgers
1990 Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
1990 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants
1990 Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year Kansas City Royals contract
1989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract
1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract
1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract
1988 New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
1988 Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
1988 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
1988 Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
1985 Angels announce that they will not offer Rod Carew a new contract
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1985 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1984 Oswald Jacoby, U.S. contract bridge champion, dies at 81
1983 Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants
1982 Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets
1982 Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract
1980 John and Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records
1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1978 Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
1978 U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
1976 New York Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract
1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1975 Stevie Wonder signs $13M contract with Motown
1974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year New York Yank contract
1974 A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
1974 U.S. and Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1973 Nate Archibald signs 7 yr contract with NBA Kansas City Kings for $450,000
1973 White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000
1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
1973 White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract
1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle
1971 Boeing receives contract for Mariner 10, Mercury exploration
1970 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
1970 West-Germany and U.S.S.R. sign gas contract
1969 Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators
1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years
1967 Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records
1966 San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
1965 San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium
1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1963 Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for Beatles
1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1963 Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
1962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
1960 ABC and AFL sign a 5 year contract
1959 U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1959 Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
1953 Charley Dressen resigns rather than take 1 year contract as Dodger mgr
1953 President Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1951 Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract
1950 Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
1950 Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
1950 Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history
1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58 % to keep blacks out
1945 Jackie Robinson signs Montreal Royal contract
1937 Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
1934 U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months
1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
1934 Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants
1934 New York Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract
1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
1933 Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1930 Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1928 Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark
1926 Contract air mail service begins in U.S.
1925 AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 and raise to $40,000
1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R.
1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year New York Yankee contract
1916 Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1915 Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season
1890 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1884 Harold Vanderbilt, New York, America Cup, 1930,34,37, /inv contract bridge
1881 Henry M. Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolese monarch
1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
1870 Netherlands and Engl sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname
1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
1789 John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx)
1661 Marriage contract for Charles II of England and Catharina of Portugal
1492 Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies
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