Events on this day in History, July 15
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2006 - Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack...
Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried...
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.Series: Broken...
Concrete Poetry: Thomas Edison and the Almost-Built World
By Anthony Acciavatti
Historians often speak of “contingency”, by which they mean something like “things could have been otherwise”. But is this even true? It can...
George Washington, a real estate investor and successful entrepreneur, knew the difference between running...
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
During his three presidential campaigns, Donald Trump promised to run the federal government as though it were a business....
History for Lunch
“Old” Nags Head
Contact: Lori Meads
Date: July 7, 2025
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. – The Museum of the Albemarle will host our monthly History for Lunch on Wednesday,...
Events on this day of history, July 16
1999 John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of...
