Although Packer's reputation as an astute businessman was legendary and he made some good investments, he was by no means a self-made man – his grandfather Robert Clyde Packer and his father Sir Frank Packer had built up the media empire and its related holdings over many decades.

In 1987 Packer made a fortune at the expense of disgraced tycoon Alan Bond.

Retiring from cricket he set up a successful travel agency with the money he made from Packer.

A biopic of his life, The Legend of Alfred Packer, was made in 1980.

Besides Packer, the group was made up of Shannon Wilson Bell, James Humphrey, Frank " Reddy " Miller, George " California " Noon, and Israel Swan.

Packer later made three confessions which differed considerably about what happened.

During this time he defended Packer against the " Goanna " allegations made by the Costigan Commission.

On 20 October 2010, four years after he sold shares in PBL Media to private equity firm CVC Asia Pacific, James Packer made a bid for Network TEN shares.

The split of the Republicans and Know Nothings made it difficult to defeat the united Democrats and Packer swept into office.

An interview with Ian Keldin ( Bell ) said that Trey thought " Shatterproof " ( which was going to be a rap song ) made Packer seem too tough.

On 14 October 2005 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the personal diaries of James Packer would be made available to ASIC to assist in its case against Jodee Rich.

Together with the Packer family, in 2008 Lowy made an undisclosed gift towards the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Packer made an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 1868.

Having made millions for the Packer family interests, he believed that " the Packers will always look after me ".

On April 4, 1983, after Lorenzo Charles made a game-winning slam dunk as North Carolina State upset Houston to win the NCAA title, Packer said, " They won it ... on the dunk!

In 2000, Packer publicly apologized to two Duke University students for allegedly sexist comments he made before a men's basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

** Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international, grandfather of Kerry Packer ( b. 1874 )

The Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer altered the traditionalist ethos of the game in the 1970s, inventing World Series Cricket from which have evolved many aspects of the various modern international forms of the game.

Taking advantage of the low remuneration paid to players, Packer retaliated by signing several of the best players in the world to a privately run cricket league outside the structure of international cricket.

In the New Year's Honours of 1971 Sir Frank Packer was promoted within the Order of the British Empire to Knight Commander ( KBE ), for services to Australian and international yachting.

The Packer years gave him his first international opportunity for West Indies and later, when the fences had been mended, he still kept his place as the slim, calm figure of reason amongst the mayhem that was created by the massive strokemakers that surrounded him.

Under the Packer family The Bulletin remained politically conservative, but rejoined the political and journalistic mainstream, as a well-edited magazine ( modelled on Time ) of political and business news and commentary, with occasional forays into literature as a gesture to its past.

News reports and news blocks were gradually introduced beginning with a 3PM newscast on July 25, 2011, anchored by Dave Packer and Mike Barker.

The NEW2UW had a close association with the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph and operated a news service from its own Kent Street studios and a news studio in the Daily Telegraph Building in Park Street Sydney when the Telegraph papers were owned by Sir Frank Packer.

* Max McGee, Green Bay Packer football player, lived in Deephaven until his death on October 20, 2007.

On October 2, 1986, a Presentation Banquet, at which Dr. James I. Packer was the featured speaker, was held to celebrate the establishment of the Seminary.

In a General Conference Session in October 1976, Packer discouraged boys of the Young Men organization in the Aaronic priesthood from pursuing activities which the LDS church defines as immoral, including masturbation and the use of pornography.

A few weeks later, on October 30, after she refused to reconcile with him, Sweeney and Dunne argued in the driveway of her home, where she was rehearsing for the TV mini-series V with actor David Packer.

* George Packer on Assassins ' Gate, Washington Post Book World, October 11, 2005.

On 17 October 2007 episode of The War, Andrew Hansen performed The Eulogy Song, which was a song written by Taylor which satirised the lives of several deceased celebrities, including Peter Brock, Princess Diana, Donald Bradman, Steve Irwin, Stan Zemanek, John Lennon, Jeff Buckley and Kerry Packer, expressing the view that people with flaws during life are often disproportionately hailed as " top blokes " after death.

In October he completed an extraordinary year when he was victorious in the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in France beating the star French filly Pistol Packer by three lengths.

* The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ ( Packer, October 2001 )

In 2010 Doug Packer resigned and a by-election in Hersham North was held on October 21st.

Among the village's well-known inhabitants was Admiral Sir Herbert Annesley Packer, who was born in the village on 9 October 1894.

Ruth Packer ( 22 October 1910, London12 January 2005 ) was an English operatic soprano.

** Friday 28 October: Decoder Ring, The Presets, Greg Packer, Cabin Crew

In Superheroes and Superegos: Analyzing the Minds Behind the Masks ( 2010 ), author Sharon Packer wrote that " nyone who feels that feminist critics overreacted to accident is advised to consult the source material " calling the work " sadistic to the core.

In Superheroes and Superegos: Analyzing the Minds Behind the Masks ( 2010 ), author Sharon Packer wrote that " nyone who feels that feminist critics overreacted to accident is advised to consult the source material " calling the work " sadistic to the core.

In 2010, after James Packer bought a large number of shares in Network Ten, Murdoch approached Packer to buy some of his shares, causing Ten to offer both men seats on their board, an offer which both Murdoch and Packer accepted.

* 2010: An Affirmative Act as Governor Packer Winstroll

In December 2010, JBS / Swift was assessed a $ 175, 000 civil penalty for violating The Packer and Stockyards Act by failing to disclose when missing Fat-O-Meat ’ er data has prevented JBS from calculating the lean percent of a particular pork carcass or carcasses in a seller ’ s lot ; and substituting an undisclosed lean value for pork carcasses with missing data when calculating carcass-merit payment for hogs delivered to JBS ’ Worthington, Minn., Marshalltown, Iowa, and Louisville, Ky., processing plants.