2015 Event U.S. President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address, promoting free community college education, increased capital gains taxes on the rich, more paid time off for employees, and greater tax credits for the middle class 2014 Event James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson 2014 Event The Buffalo Bills are being sold to businessman Terry Pegula for $1.4 billion, the highest price paid in history for an NFL team; previously owner Ralph Wilson, now deceased, paid $25,000 in 1959 2014 Event Google will be launching a paid subscription-based music service featuring YouTube music video content; the service will be separate from the company's existing subscription music service on Google Play 2014 Event 'Nympheas', a painting in Claude Monet's 'Water Lilies' series, is auctioned today for a price of $54 million; this is only the second-highest price paid for a Monet - another painting in the series sold in 2008 for $80.3 million at auction 2014 Event Online travel reservation company Priceline has purchased online restaurant reservation company OpenTable, offering market expansion opportunities for both companies; Priceline paid $2.6 billion for the acquisition 2011 Event A record $79 million auction price is paid for Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang's 1988 'Forever Lasting Love' three-panel oil painting 2010 Event Film confirms Sarah, Duchess of York's involvement in a scandal showing she asked for a $40,000 handshake in cash and for 500,000 pounds to be paid in return for access to Prince Andrew 1991 Event Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million 1991 Event U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career 1988 Event Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra 1983 Event Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro 1983 Event IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball 1981 Birthday Adriana Lima, born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, model, appeared on covers of 'ELLE', 'GQ', 'Vogue' magazines, ranked world's 4th highest paid supermodel in 2008 1980 Event Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya 1979 Event Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas 1978 Event Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player 1977 Event IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 1975 Birthday Tiger Woods, born in Cypress, California, pro golfer, highest paid pro athlete, most successful golfer of all time 1975 Event NBC paid $5M for rights to show 'Gone with the Wind' one time 1971 Event Golden Gate Bridge paid for 1966 Birthday Paula Jones, born in Lonoke, Arkansas, sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, case was dismissed but while on appeal Clinton paid Jones $850,000 1964 Event Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas) 1960 Birthday Theo Vogelaars, pop bassist, Trockener Kecks/Paid Love 1958 Event Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid 1951 Event 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game 1940 Event Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana) 1937 Event 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 Event 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 Event Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year) 1923 Event 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium 1909 Event Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det 1895 Event 1st pro football game (quarterback John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0) 1866 Event Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies 1864 Event John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln 1837 Birthday Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
