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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.

2008

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.

1942

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.

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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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Biden's debate voice fails him; the 81-year-old leaves his economic record undefended on national television

Speaking in a halting, hoarse voice and repeatedly mixing "billion" with "million," the president leaves Democrats across the country asking what they saw tonight.

2007

Apple's iPhone goes on sale; thousands who camped for days outside stores are first in line

Jobs unveiled the 3.5-inch touchscreen device in January as "an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator" in one, and today the wait ends at Apple and AT&T stores nationwide.

2019

Trump steps across the DMZ line; no sitting president has stood on North Korean soil before today

Kim tells him "I never expected to meet you at this place," and the two go on to talk privately for 53 minutes inside Freedom House, South Korea's Moon kept out at Pyongyang's request.

2011

Atlantis clears the tower; the shuttle program's last mission is airborne

Ferguson, Hurley, Magnus and Walheim lift off from Complex 39A at 11:29 a.m., hauling 9,400 pounds of supplies to the space station.

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