On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy (above) and her sister, Lauren Bessette,
died when the single-engine plane that Kennedy was piloting
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s Vineyard,
Massachusetts.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., was born on November 25,
1960, just a few weeks after his father and namesake was
elected the 35th president of the United States.

President John F. Kennedy and son
JFK Jr.(‘John John’)

On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting
company Odeo officially released Twttr—later changed
to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups,
to the public.

Born as a side project apart from Odeo’s main podcasting
platform, the free application allowed users to share short
status updates with groups of friends by sending one text
message to a single number (“40404”). Over the next few
years, as Twttr became Twitter, the simple “microblogging”
service would explode in popularity, becoming one of  
the world’s leading social networking platforms.

Twitter co-founder Evan "Ev" Clark Williams

Jack Patrick Dorsey Twitter co-founder and
former CEO. 

Boeing was founded by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington,
on July 15, 1916.The present corporation is the result of the
merger of Boeing with McDonnell Douglas on August 1, 1997.

Then–chairman and CEO of Boeing, Philip M. Condit, assumed
those roles in the combined company, while Harry Stonecipher,
former CEO of McDonnell Douglas, became president and COO.    
                                                                                             

As of 2023, the Boeing Company’s corporate headquarters is
located in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia^,   

      
    
    
    
    
 
William Edward Boeing
(October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956)

After successfully building a float plane together
with Commander George Conrad Westerveldt,
William Boeing founded a new aircraft company
bearing his name. It was his intention for Boeing
Aircraft to fulfill a US Navy contract for seaplanes.

On July 15, 1988, Die Hard, an action film starring Bruce
Willis as wisecracking New York City cop John McClane,
opened in theaters across the country. A huge box-office
hit, the film established Willis as a movie star and spawned
three sequels. Die Hard also became Hollywood shorthand
for describing the plot of other actions films, as in “Speed
is Die Hard on a bus.”

MIKE GRACIA

Richard Benjamin Speck
(December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991)