2014 Event Microsoft Corp. is planning to buy Mojang, the company that created the video game Minecraft; the purchase price would likely exceed $2 billion 2014 Event Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is seeking to buy U.S. online rebate service Ebates Shopping.com Inc. for $950 million; in recent years, Rakuten has been making acquisitions to expand its interests outside of Japan 2014 Event India's central bank states that domestic credit cards must complete extra validation when used to buy local goods or services; some businesses have avoided the rule by using foreign payment systems, resulting in cash flows out of the country 2014 Event Twenty-First Century Fox, headed by Rupert Murdoch, rescinds its offer to buy Time Warner Inc. after the latter's resistance to the proposal 2014 Event Real estate website company Zillow will buy rival Trulia for $3.5 billion in stock; the company will dominate the market for online searches of real estate 2014 Event Discount store Dollar Tree will buy rival Family Dollar for $8.5 billion; the merged company is expected to generate revenue in line with competitor Dollar General 2014 Event Drug maker Pfizer, Inc. has raised its offer to buy AstraZeneca Plc; the current offer of over 63 billion pounds was made after AstraZeneca rejected Pfizer's offer of 58.8 billion pounds in January 2014 Event Disney announces that it will buy Maker Studios for $500 million with an additional payout of $450 million if certain performance targets are met; purchase of the online video producer may help Disney expand marketing outlets for its media 2013 Event An error on the Delta Air Lines website allows thousands of customers to buy tickets for super-low fares, some 90% below regular ticket prices; Delta takes responsibility for the error, and will honor ticket purchases as well as frequent flier miles earned on the reduced-fare flights 2012 Event In an attempt to encourage people to buy from their local bookstores, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo boycotts e-books 1994 Event Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect 1991 Event Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts 1990 Event Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman 1989 Event H. J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins 1987 Event Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains 1987 Event Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion 1986 Event Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million 1977 Event Angels acquire Dave Kingman from Padres for cash 9 days later Yankees buy Kingman (started with Mets) who plays in all 4 divisions in 1977 1970 Event 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy 1968 Birthday Ami Dolenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, General Hospital, Can't Buy Me Love 1966 Event U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints 1964 Event Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks 1958 Event University of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates 1957 Event Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 1950 Event Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) 1946 Birthday Dennis Dugan, born in Wheaton, Illinois, actor and director, Can't Buy Me Love, Howling 1945 Event Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina 1945 Event Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy 1944 Event Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves 1942 Birthday Fred Travalena, New York City, comedian/impressionist, Buy and Cell 1934 Event New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) 1919 Event John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, and Judge McQuade buy New York Giants 1916 Event New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500 1911 Birthday Simone Simon, born in France, actress, All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love 1903 Event 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY 1829 Event President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses 1803 Event Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La
