| 1931 | Mar 11, 1931 - Born Keith Rupert Murdoch on March 11, 1931, on a farm thirty miles south of Melbourne, Australia, he was the second child and the only boy in a line of four children. The family property was called Cruden Farm after the Scottish village from which both parents ...Born Keith Rupert Murdoch on March 11, 1931, on a farm thirty miles south of Melbourne, Australia, he was the second child and the only boy in a line of four children. The family property was called Cruden Farm after the Scottish village from which both parents' families had emigrated. Keith Rupert Murdoch was the namesake of both his father, Keith Murdoch, and his maternal grandfather, Rupert Greene, who was only slightly older than his son-in-law.  Show more  Show lessbooks.google.com/books?id=2mj1FcArTE8C&pg=PA9
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| 1985 | May 10, 1985 - Times rather than seek an exemption to fed eral rules in his purchase of a local television station, according to a memo circulated Thursday to newspaper employees . Yes. it's true that Rupert Murdoch has decided to sell the Sun Times. said Sun Times Publisher Rob' ... news.google.com/newspapers?id=xOkRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EPADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6768,6211120&dq= rupert+murdoch&hl=en
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| 1988 | Aug 14, 1988 - Amid the hoopla that surrounded [Rupert Murdoch]'s announcement last week that he would pay $3 billion for TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and Seventeen magazine, there was one missing element: Murdoch himself. Despite his wide-ranging media holdings on four continents and his bold ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73624770.html?dids=73624770:73624770&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type...date...Rupert+Murdoch%3B...
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| 1993 | Dec 21, 1993 - By STUART ELLIOTT. RUPERT MURDOCH, the media titan from Down Under, has turned American sports television upside down with his audacious gamble to pay $1.58 billion to broadcast National Football League games beginning next season. But how successful will he be in persuading the ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F0061EF93C5E0C728EDDAB0994DB494D81
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| 1995 | May 12, 1995 - Whatever the commercial benefits that eventually derive from the MCI/News Corp link-up, if any, there can be little doubt that, from Rupert Murdoch's point of view, this is primarily a financially driven transaction. Beneath the starry-eyed rhetoric of the multi-media revolution, ... www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment--a-painless-refinancing-for-rupert-murdoch-1619214. html
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| 1998 | Mar 1, 1998 - There has been another attack on the international media magnate Rupert Murdoch. He has already been accused of intervening to stop publication of a book on the handover of Hong Kong by its former governor Chris Patten. Now Mr Patten himself says that Rupert Murdoch is damaging free ... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/analysis/61122.stm
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| 2003 | Apr 10, 2003 - The second try was the one that took for News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch (above), who failed two years ago in a previous attempt to add DirecTV to his company's holdings. (AP / CBS). (AP) News Corp. agreed Wednesday to acquire control of Hughes Electronics Corp. and ... www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/06/national/main535320.shtml
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| 2005 | Jul 31, 2005 - The media magnate's son Lachlan was the heir apparent. But last week he quit, and now his ageing father must work out a new future for the News Corp empire. Tim Luckhurst reports. Rupert Murdoch sits astride a global communications behemoth more powerful than the BBC. ... www.independent.co.uk/news/media/so-where-does-rupert-murdoch-go-from-here-500802.html
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| 2007 | May 2, 2007 - NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: This is a FOX News alert from Boston where it seems a titan has all but given up his quest to buy a newspaper icon, another shock to the world to make sure he can and does. Rupert Murdoch — $5 billion — Dow Jones: That is all you need to know. ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269625,00.html
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| 2009 | Aug 6, 2009 - By james.ledbetter - The Big Money. One of the benefits of old age is that if you stick around long enough, sooner or later you are bound to say something that proves to be right. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp (NWS), is a master at this technique, which he augments by ... www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=US349453218820090806
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