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A photo-sharing app called Instagram appears in the App Store

Built from the wreckage of a failed check-in app, it asks users to frame their lives in a square.

By the fall of 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger had already scrapped one app. Burbn, their San Francisco startup's mobile check-in service, had failed to catch on against Foursquare, but the one feature users kept coming back to was photo-sharing. On October 6, 2010, the two co-founders released the stripped-down result on Apple's App Store under a new name: Instagram, a portmanteau of instant camera and telegram. The app let users shoot a photo, frame it in a square, and send it out…

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Forts Clinton and Montgomery fall in an hour; the Hudson chain goes down with them

Sir Henry Clinton lands 2,100 men at Stony Point and marches them in from the landward side, where the Americans had never finished the landward defenses.

MESSENGER finds a 716-kilometer scar on Mercury's southern hemisphere

The second of three planned flybys doubles as a gravity-assist maneuver and a discovery run.

Five Marine battalions cross the Matanikau in a pincer; the Japanese line east of the river breaks

A carefully drawn trap at the river mouth and an inland footbridge catches Japanese troops before they can finish digging in near Henderson Field.

Five days into his first American journey, the Polish pontiff arrives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a meeting no predecessor ever had.

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A Titan IVB rises from Cape Canaveral, carrying Cassini toward Saturn

The seven-year voyage begins with 72 pounds of plutonium and a DVD of 616,400 signatures tucked aboard.

Apple shows a white box the size of a deck of cards: 1,000 songs in your pocket

Steve Jobs introduces a 6.5-ounce music player built around a 5 GB hard drive hidden inside a Cupertino auditorium.

Discovery lifts off with Pamela Melroy in command, only the second woman to lead a shuttle crew

The mission carries a new station module and a piece of ice too small, NASA says, to worry about.

Shepherd, Krikalev and Gidzenko dock at the space station and float inside

Their Soyuz reaches the aft port of the Zvezda module at 09:21 UTC; ninety minutes later the hatch opens on a station that has never had a resident crew.

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