On this day July 15 Australia 1964 - Rupert Murdoch unveils The Australian newspaper in Sydney. The Australian newspaper was Australias first national daily newspaper. The front page of the paper contained a promise to deliver the impartial information and the independent thinking that are essential to the further advance of our country. Initially, the headquarters for The Australian were in the nations capital, Canberra, but today its head office is in Sydney. Other places 1099 - Christian soldiers enter Jerusalem after a siege during the First Crusade, and murder almost every inhabitant of the city. The First Crusade was launched in 1095 to regain control of the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslims. It was a long and difficult seige before Christians entered the city and took the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The Christians themselves suffered many casualties\. Morale improved when a priest, Peter Desiderius, claimed to have had divine vision instructing them to fast and then march in a barefoot procession around the city walls, after which the city would fall in nine days. The Christian army performed the procession. Meanwhile, siege engines were constructed and seven days later, the army broke down sections of the walls and entered the city. Over the next day, the army massacred almost everyone in the city - Muslims, Jews, and even eastern Christians. 1662 - The Royal Society of London is formally created. Lord Brouncker was the first President, while Robert Hooke was appointed as Curator of Experiments in November 1662. A second Royal Charter was sealed on 23 April 1663, naming the King as Founder and changing the name to The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge. Her Majesty The Queen is the current patron, and, since the foundation of the Royal Society, the reigning monarch has always been the patron. 1869 - Margarine is patented in Paris. In the 1860s Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France offered a prize to the maker of a suitable substitute for butter, for use by the military and the lower classes. The contest was won by French chemist Hippolyte Mège Mouriés. The primary component of the product was tallow, but the formula included a fatty component that, when mixed, had a pearly lustre. Thus, the product was named after the Greek word for pearl - margaritari. 1922 - A platypus is displayed for the first time in the United States. many years. Harry Burrell was a naturalist and wildlife photographer who devoted much of his life to the study of the platypus. He designed an artificial habitat which came to be known as a platypussary, which enabled the transportation of five platypuses to a New York Zoo in 1922.
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