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"Stegosaurus" skeleton Apex is auctioned for $44.6 million (£34 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, United States, the most ever paid for a fossil.
2024-07-18

Sandro Botticelli's "Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel" is sold at auction for $92.2 million at Sotheby's in New York City, making it the second most expensive painting by an old master ever sold at public auction.
2021-01-28

A manuscript by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler sells for about £4.5 million at Sotheby’s.
2016-11-30

Andy Warhol's "Double Elvis" sells at an auction for $37 million at Sotheby's in New York City.
2012-05-9

The auction record for a painting by Sir Stanley Spencer is broken twice in quick succession at Sotheby's in London.
2011-06-16

The Victorian iron gates of a children's home which inspired John Lennon to write the Beatles hit "Strawberry Fields Forever" have been removed by the property's owners and placed in storage.
2011-05-10

A 450-year-old "Madonna and Child" work sells for $16.9 million at Sotheby's in New York, a new auction record for Titian.
2011-01-28

John Lennon is celebrated on the 30th anniversary of his murder.
2010-12-8

Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's killer, is denied parole by the New York State Division of Parole in the U.S..
2010-09-7