1998 Michelangelo, "Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million
1997 Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500
1995 NHL Winnipeg Jets sold to Americans who plan to move them to Phoenix
1993 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for 705,500 pounds in London
1992 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
1990 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000
1988 Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S.
1985 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
1980 J Turners "Juliet and Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in New York City
1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
1978 Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in New York City
1977 1st TRS-80 computer sold
1977 1st TRS-80 Model I computer sold
1976 New York Nets Julius "Dr. J" Erving sold to Philadelphia 76ers
1973 Jackson Pollocks painting "Blue Poles" sold for $2,000,000
1971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
1968 Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina
1968 London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona
1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1965 Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1964 Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
1963 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
1961 1st black light is sold
1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia is sold to J Schleifer Properties
1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1956 RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
1956 Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1952 False fingernails 1st sold
1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 in New York City
1948 1st Polaroid camera sold
1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1948 1st tape recorder sold
1946 1st electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1945 New York Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, &
1940 1st nylon stockings sold in U.S.
1936 St. Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes and William O DeWitt
1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co
1934 While Washington player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
1933 Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles
1927 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1926 Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1923 Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
1918 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P J Quinn
1909 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1907 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1899 Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000
1898 1st automobile sold
1898 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker, Jr., Dutch actor, Sold Grandpa
1893 Daan Boens, Flemish poet, Man who sold his Wife
1879 Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1864 Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English
1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100
1843 "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1804 Suriname sold to English (until Feb, 1816)
1662 Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France
1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British
1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds and sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery
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