1960:<\/strong> News Ltd purchases Sydney newspapers the Daily Mirror<\/i> and Sunday Mirror.<\/i><\/p>\n 1964:<\/strong> Launches The Australian<\/i>, the nation\u2019s first national newspaper.<\/p>\n 1969: <\/strong>In London, Murdoch wins control of News of the World<\/i>. He also acquires The Sun<\/i>, which he converts from broadsheet to tabloid.<\/p>\n 1973: <\/strong> Enters the US market with purchase of the San Antonio Express<\/i> and San Antonio News.<\/i><\/p>\n Rupert Murdoch examining The Australian in July 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n 1976:<\/strong> Buys the New York Post.<\/i><\/p>\n 1981:<\/strong> Purchases The Times<\/i> and The<\/em> Sunday Times<\/i> in London.<\/p>\n 1984: <\/strong>Appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for services to publishing.<\/p>\n Jerry Hall (2016 – 2022)<\/p>\n Wendi Deng (1999-2013, divorced) Children: Chloe and Grace<\/p>\n Anna Torv (1967-1999, divorced) Children: Elisabeth, Lachlan and James<\/p>\n Patricia Booker (1956-1967, divorced) Children: Prudence<\/p>\n 1985: <\/strong>Murdoch becomes a naturalised US citizen. He purchases half of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, from oilman Marvin Davis, and later buys Davis\u2019 remaining stake.<\/p>\n 1986: <\/strong>Moves his British newspapers to Wapping, eliminating many printing jobs and triggering a long and often violent industrial dispute.<\/p>\n Purchases several US TV stations and creates Fox Broadcasting, launching Fox Television network.<\/p>\n Rupert Murdoch arrives in Sydney from the US in January 1987 to have further discussions about the takeover bid of The Herald and Weekly Times. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>John O\u2019Gready<\/cite><\/p>\n 1987: <\/strong>Buys the Melbourne-based The Herald and Weekly Times,<\/em> the newspaper group once run by his father.<\/p>\n 1988: <\/strong>Sells the New York Post<\/i> due to laws prohibiting ownership of newspapers and TV stations in the same market.<\/p>\n 1989: <\/strong>Launches Sky Television in the UK.<\/p>\n Rupert Murdoch and Alan Sugar at the launch of Sky UK in 1988. At the time, Sugar was a major supplier of satellite reception dishes.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Archives <\/cite><\/p>\n 1990: <\/strong>Merges Harper and Row and two other publishing operations into HarperCollins Publishers.<\/p>\n 1993: <\/strong>Buys back the New York Post.<\/i><\/p>\n 2005: <\/strong>Purchases Intermix Media, owner of social networking site MySpace.com.<\/p>\n 2007: <\/strong>Purchases Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.<\/i><\/p>\n Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp, addresses a crowded Wall Street Journal newsroom in 2007 after taking over Dow Jones & Co.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP\/Mark Lennihan<\/cite><\/p>\n July 6:<\/strong> Former British prime minister David Cameron announces the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and police bribery at News of the World.<\/i><\/p>\n July 10:<\/strong> Final print edition of News of the World <\/i>is published.<\/p>\n July 15:<\/strong> Murdoch meets the family of murdered teen Milly Dowler, and personally apologises for the hacking of Dowler\u2019s phone by News of the World<\/i> staff.<\/p>\n Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch arrive at his residence in central London during the phone hacking inquiry.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n July 19:<\/strong> Rupert and James Murdoch face a British parliamentary inquiry into the phone hacking scandal. Rupert describes the interrogation-style proceedings as \u201cthe most humble day of my life\u201d.<\/p>\n 2015: <\/strong>Former prime minister Tony Abbott says Murdoch \u201carguably has had more impact on the wider world than any other living Australian\u201d.<\/p>\n 2018: <\/strong>Hospitalised after injuring his back in fall on son Lachlan\u2019s yacht.<\/p>\n 2019:<\/strong> Murdoch sells most of 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company for $US71 billion; the family trust receives $US12 billion in Disney shares to be distributed evenly to Murdoch\u2019s six children.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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