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1998 KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview
1994 O. J. Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller 1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman 1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years 1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait 1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses" 1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive 1987 U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf 1985 South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence 1984 U.S.S.R. offers to start talking about banning SDI 1983 Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns 1979 Sid Bernstein offers $ billion for a Beatle reunion 1976 Sid Berstein offers $230 million charity concert for Beatle reunion 1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates 1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid 1963 John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers 1958 De Gaulle offers Algerians defiance "peace of the brave" 1957 U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid 1954 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem 1954 U.S.S.R. offers to join NATO 1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation 1937 Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yankees release Tony Lazzeri 1935 Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor 1934 Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive 1930 New York City College offers 1st course in radio advertising 1914 Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty 1914 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia 1912 South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free 1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ 1890 Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria 1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public 1885 U.S. Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail 1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 1863 President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters 1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 1861 Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium 1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace 1775 1st U.S. joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents 1738 France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey 1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown 1575 King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe |
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