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1991 Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
1991 U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career 1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra 1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro 1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball 1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya 1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas 1978 Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player 1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 1975 Tiger Woods, born in Cypress, California, pro golfer, highest paid pro athlete, most successful golfer of all time 1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time 1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for 1964 Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas) 1960 Theo Vogelaars, pop bassist, Trockener Kecks/Paid Love 1958 Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid 1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game 1940 Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) 1937 Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations) 1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankee General Manager Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth" 1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 1923 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium 1909 Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det 1895 1st pro football game (quarterback John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0) 1866 Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies 1864 John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln 1837 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA |
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