2006 United States population reaches 300 million people
2004 Clinton Library opens in Little Rock Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs and 80 million documents
2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC, commercials are $2 million each
1998 Tellabs Inc. acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million
1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
1998 Michelangelo, "Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
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 Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
1997 Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
1997 Elton John's tribute to Diana breaks world record, 318 million dist
1997 Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits
1997 Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1997 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to record 5 year, $575 Million deal
1997 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay
1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List," completely uncensored, 65 million watch
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
1997 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
1996 Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million
1996 Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
1996 Sotherby ends 4 day auction of Jackie O stuff-take in $34.5 million
1996 Sotherby begins 4 day auction of Jackie Onassis things nets $34.5 million
1996 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for charity during BT's Swimathon '96
1996 Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1995 Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
1995 Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend)
1995 Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to U.S. Treasury
1994 New York Lotto pays $60 million+
1994 Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1994 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
1993 Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million
1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1992 Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1992 San Francisco Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
1992 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1991 New York Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
1991 Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million), dies of cancer at 97
1991 Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title and becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans
1991 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
1991 In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 and left 9 million homeless
1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1991 Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1991 Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney
1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38
1991 Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration
1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
1990 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44)
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 The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
1989 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1988 Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59
1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles
1988 New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library
1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn
1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials
1987 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
1987 Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million)
1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
1986 Mamo Clark, actor (1 Million BC, Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), dies
1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
1986 Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1986 240.49 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1986 189.42 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from California to New York
1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
1986 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1986 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1985 New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million
1985 "Live Aid" concert raises over $70 million for African famine relief
1985 Laffit Pincay, Jr. becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
1985 Bill (Willie) Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1985 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
1984 John W Mercom, Jr. announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire
1984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
1984 Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
1984 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
1984 203.05 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1984 365.7 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
1984 Ethel Merman, singer and actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million
1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
1983 Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians
1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1981 Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch)
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1981 Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen
1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
1981 U.S. government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1981 AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, and 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision
1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1979 Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage
1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
1979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled, world's worst oil spillage
1979 Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
1979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
1978 Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
1978 Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 Gutenberg Bible, 1 of 21, sells for $2.4 million, London
1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"
1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
1976 Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
1976 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1976 Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion
1976 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, and Vida Blue to Yankees
1976 San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth
1976 Bank robbery in Beirut nets a record $20-50 million
1976 Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million
1975 Annette Kellerman, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), dies at 87
1974 New York Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 years for record $3.75 million
1974 A's Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
1974 Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million
1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres
1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million
1972 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada
1972 U.S. sells grain to U.S.S.R. for $750 million
1972 Nick Mileti purchases Cleveland Indians for $9 million
1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1970 Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed
1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball
1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
1969 U.S. population reaches 200 million
1968 Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million), dies of cancer at 47
1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1967 Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million), dies of cancer at 54
1967 Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives
1966 Stacy Lattisaw, Washington D.C., disco singer, Million Dollar Baby
1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
1964 Philadelphia voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1964 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
1964 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million
1963 1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
1963 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
1962 U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City
1958 Pamela Prati, Rome, Italy, Million $ Cap, 1984, /actress
1958 U.S.S.R. lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
1958 Michelle Bauer, California, actress, One Million Heels BC
1958 Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock and ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1958 Victor M Gerena, born in New York City, security guard robbed $7 million, FBI wanted
1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
1957 Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million
1957 U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million
1957 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million
1957 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
1956 RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
1956 Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1956 Andy Garcia, Cuba, actor, Stand and Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die
1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for construction of CIA headquarters
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits New York City, $50 million damage
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1953 U.S. government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1953 U.S. give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
1953 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1953 August A. Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million
1951 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1949 Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million
1948 Carole Landis, U.S. actress (1 Million BC, Topper Returns), dies at 29
1947 Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
1947 Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1946 Highest ridership in New York City subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1946 Larry Graham, Jr., rocker, Graham Central Station-One in a Million You
1946 Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million
1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
1946 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest
1945 Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
1943 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
1943 Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase
1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1942 German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1941 Million jam downtown Brooklyn to cheer NL champ Dodgers in a parade
1940 Nathanael West, [Weinstein], U.S. writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens, 3 million killed there
1937 World's fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1936 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1934 4.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments
1933 Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march
1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1927 Carl Toms, stage designer, 1 Million BC, Moon Zero Two
1926 Richard Anderson, born in Long Beach, New Jersey, actor, Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man
1926 British general strike-3 million workers support miners
1923 Adele Mara, born in Dearborn, Michigan, actress and singer, Cool Million, Wheels
1922 Longest attack of hiccups begins Charlie Osborne, 98 hiccupped over 435 million times before it stops, He dies 11 months after it stops
1921 Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
1921 Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1920 Helen Walker, Worcester, Massachusetts, actress, Brewster's Million
1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
1919 Jesse White, Buf, New York, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Million Dollar Mermaid
1919 Carole Landis, Fairchild WI, actress, One Million BC, Topper Returns
1917 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I
1917 U.S. pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands
1916 Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the U.S. for $25 million
1916 Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties)
1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1915 Victor Mature, born in Louisville, Kentucky, actor, 1 Million BC, Samson and Delilah
1914 Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1904 U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1903 Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U and begins Pulitzer Prizes
1902 U.S. buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
1902 Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland
1902 Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million
1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1900 World's Fair in Paris opens, 50 million visitors
1893 Bert Bertram, actor, How to Steal a Million
1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC
1888 Annette Kellerman, Sydney Australia, swimmer, Million Dollar Mermaid
1887 Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
1868 Earthquakes kill 25,000 and causes $300 million damages (Peru and Ecuador)
1867 U.S. takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia
1854 Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1853 Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico
1848 Mexico ratifies treaty giving U.S.; New Mexico, California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado in return for $15 million
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million
1821 Spain sells eastern Florida to United States for $5 million
1820 Spain sells part of Florida to U.S. for $5 million
1662 England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres
1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders
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