2014 Event Photo-sharing application Instagram has overtaken short-messaging application Twitter with over 300 million monthly users to Twitter's 284 million 2012 Event Facebook purchases Instagram, a photo sharing application, for $1 billion 1978 Event Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected 1974 Event Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application 1961 Event U.S.S.R. vetoes Kuwaits application for United Nations membership 1947 Event Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected 1891 Event William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
