After two seasons, John Kent Cooke was unable to raise sufficient funds to permanently purchase the Redskins, and on May 25, 1999, Daniel Snyder gained unanimous approval ( 31 – 0 ) from league owners and bought the franchise for $ 800 million, a deal that was the most expensive team-purchasing deal in sporting history.

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* 0 – 5 years: So Much by Trish Cooke, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury ( Walker Books )

The function first increases nearly exponentially with increasing temperature, then slowly increases to the maximum value of 1. 0 at a temperature of T, then declines steeply at higher temperatures .”( Cooke 471 ) Thus proving that sunfish are opportunistic feeders, but also that temperature plays a large role in how often they feed.

* 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company ( d. 1905 )

* 1663 – Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim ( b. c. 1583 )

* Mick Cooke: 1998 – present, trumpet and bass

* 1792 – Thomas Cooke, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop ( d. 1870 )

A youthful exercise in Augustan heroic couplets by Thomas Cooke ( 1703 – 1756 ), employing the Roman names for all the gods.

* 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

* 1983 – Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer

* 1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer ( The Soul Stirrers ) ( d. 1964 )

* 1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal archbishop ( d. 1983 )

* 1888 – Baldwin Cooke, American actor d. 1953

* 1908 – Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.

* 1919 – Deryck Cooke, English musician, author, and broadcaster ( d. 1976 )

* 1848 – Emma Cooke, American archer ( d. 1929 )

* 1978 – Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1873 – Panic of 1873: The U. S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.

* October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth, Western Australia between 1959 and 1963.

* November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* January 22 – Sam Cooke, American singer ( d. 1964 )

* February 25 – Eric Edgar Cooke, Australian Murderer ( d. 1964 )

* January 26 – The Australia Day shootings rock Perth, Western Australia ; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke.

* October 8 – Sam Cooke and his band are arrested after trying to register at a " whites only " motel in Louisiana.

* December 19 – Charles M. Cooke, Jr., American admiral ( d. 1970 )

* James Cooke Brown, 1960.

On February 18, 1960, Rickey and Cooke announced an opening date of April 18, 1961, and said that Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Atlanta would host the teams from Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Toronto and Buffalo.

A first, still incomplete performing version by Cooke ( 1959 – 1960 ) stemmed from a performance and an associated lecture for radio broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, marking the centenary of Mahler's birth.

* Cooke I – first complete performing version ( 1960 – 1964 ; unpublished )

Beginning in the run-up to the Mahler centenary in 1960, Cooke ( in association with Berthold Goldschmidt ) made his first attempt at producing a ' performing version ' of the unfinished draft of Mahler's 10th Symphony.

Over the years, it's also been done by ( among others ) Smiley Lewis ( 1954 ), the Rivileers ( 1954 ), Sam Cooke ( 1958 ), Jesse Belvin ( 1959 ), the Voices Five ( 1959 ), Donnie Elbert ( 1960 ), the Cleftones ( 1961 ), the Spaniels ( 1961 ), Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells ( 1964 ), Rufus Thomas ( 1971 ), James Brown ( 1976 ) and Rod Stewart ( 2004 ).

In 1960, Cooke lost a bid to obtain a license for the first privately-owned TV station in Toronto.

Various orchestrations and performing editions of the entire symphony have been made since the 1960s, including that of Deryck Cooke ( 1960 – 64 ), subsequently revised with input from Berthold Goldschmidt, Colin Matthews and David Matthews and a sparer, brass-prominent version by Joseph Wheeler.

* Sam Cooke ( 1960 ) on his album Hits of the ' 50s

* Sam Cooke ( 1960 )

According to Allmusic journalist Steve Huey, " best known for his 1960 R & B smash, ' Handy Man ,' Jones sang in a smooth yet soulful falsetto modeled on the likes of Clyde McPhatter and Sam Cooke.