TIM MAGUIRE

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the moon.

ROSS SIMPSON

Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)

Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism,
opened on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160
acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought
in staggering profits. Today, Disneyland hosts more than 18 million
visitors a year, who spend close to $3 billion.

Walt Disney giving his Opening Day Speech at Disneyland

On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo
officially releases 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 “microblogging”
service would explode in popularity, becoming one of the world’s
leading social networking platforms. Twitter was founded by Evan
Williams and another entrepreneur Noah Glass.  

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.

Twitter co-founder Noah Glass

In Los Angeles, California, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts was
nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention on this
day in 1960, defeating Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The next day, 
Johnson was named Kennedy’s running mate by a unanimous vote of the 
convention.