Historic Deals ...

ron.burgundy

Folks im working away on a project at the moment about famous deals that have taken place in the last 60 years, some I've come up with are

Beatles signing with EMI
America buying Alaska,

Anyone think of anymore to help me along?

Cheers!

seamus

George W. Bush selling his soul to Satan

Sorry, I couldn't resist

mise_me_fein_V2

I was watching a program last night on TV about the border.

It was interesting to see how the border was actually agreed on.

The eventually agreed on the historic borders of ancient times.

This border defined Ireland for the last 80 years,

This is definitely an historic agreement.

connundrum

The title seems a bit vague tbh. If you google 'deal of the century' it comes back with all these huge money mergers between giant coroporations - which has no real relevance to any normal person.

Cantona signing for United is a contender though

xzanti

All Beatles song rights being sold to Michael Jackson for $47.5m

justsomebloke

what about the creation of the EEC, the kyoto accord or the creation of the UN

ron.burgundy

connundrum wrote:

The title seems a bit vague tbh. If you google 'deal of the century' it comes back with all these huge money mergers between giant coroporations - which has no real relevance to any normal person.

Cantona signing for United is a contender though

They dont really have to have a major relevance to everyone so any major deals that people can think of would be very welcome!

Hugh Hefner

Signing of The Treaty Of Rome.
Janeway and The Borg.



Edit: Damn you, jsb!

Kersh

The Dutch bought Manhattan island off the Indians for something like 29 dollars or so - bargain real estate.

biko

ron.burgundy wrote:

America buying Alaska

How about the beads that was given to the Indians in exchange for the island of Manhattan? Pretty good deal.

casanova_kid

The Versailles Treaty was a pretty historic deal considering that without it there would have been no second world war.

Sleepy

IBM hiring Bill Gates on contract (allowing Microsoft to be his rather than theirs)
AOL buying out TimeWarner (who were about ten times the size of AOL)

MorningStar

The Panama canal
The Eurostar
The sale of London Bridge under the belief it was Tower Bridge being bought (I think it is a joke but it was sold to an American in the 60s)
Guatanemo Bay (a bad deal for some a great for others)
Oil for Food

Sleepy

Or a particularly Irish ones:

The Passports for Cash deals.
The Good Friday Agreement.

astrofool

The Ireland (soccer) managers job (if you're Steve Staunton, not like Walsall were going anywhere, firing their manager 2 weeks later).

Dooom

Sale of the Millenium Dome?

Kersh

The contractors who are building the port tunnel. Triple the original quote so far, and still not open, or near opening. Its 2 years late, and costing 1.3 billion, now thats some deal....
Normally there are penalties for late delivery...

Rb

Kersh wrote:

Normally there are penalties for late delivery...

Free garlic pizza bread?

justsomebloke

Take That reforming:D

Exit

ron.burgundy wrote:

Folks im working away on a project at the moment about famous deals that have taken place in the last 60 years, some I've come up with are

Beatles signing with EMI
America buying Alaska,

Anyone think of anymore to help me along?

Cheers!

Alaska falls out of the timeframe if you're going by the last 60 years.

Zebra3

Up until the end of WWII sterling was the world's no.1 currency, but under some financial arrangement between America and Britain at the end of the war to help the latter back on its feet, the US$ took sterling's place.

All this allowed for the sale of oil etc to be done through dollars which allowed America to truly take it's place as the world's superpower.

ron.burgundy

cheers folks, please keep them coming!

Archeron

I'm slightly out (by about 10 years I think) but if its still acceptable....
The fledgling city of Los Angeles agreeing to purchase most of its electricity from the proposed Hoover dam, thus giving birth to the dam itself which brought life and power to a huge amount of cities on the west coast of america and allowing people to settle in previously unhospitable terrain. Not to mention the intense environmental effects when everyone seen the benefits of dams and started building them everwhere, causing the Colorado river to no longer even reach the sea and decimating salmon stocks.