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Desmond Daniel Amofah (1990–2019), known as Etika, was an American YouTuber and live streamer, known online for his enthusiastic reactions to Super Smash Bros. character trailers and Nintendo Direct presentations. The son of Ghanaian politician Owuraku Amofah, he resided in Brooklyn. Starting his online career in 2007, Amofah created his main YouTube channel, EWNetwork (Etika World Network), in 2012. He garnered popularity following the release of Super Smash Bros. 4, primarily stemming from his reaction videos of news surrounding the game. Beginning in October 2018, Amofah showed signs of mental distress, and was reported missing on June 20, 2019. Officials confirmed his death on June 25, finding it to be a suicide by drowning. His death was met with shock and grief by fans and fellow YouTubers, with many commenting that Amofah's mental deterioration had been dismissed or ignored. Numerous commemorations were held to honor Amofah, including fan-made memorials and murals. (Full article...)
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- ... that a Chinese warlord put his car on coinage (pictured), in lieu of his own portrait?
- ... that the English actor Jude Law is actually named David, a result of his parents naming their children after their best friends?
- ... that a portrait was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
- ... that an AI rendering of the Detroit Sign misled people into thinking that it would be larger than it actually is?
- ... that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia?
- ... that the communist trade unionist Ditto Pölzl was a member of all three provisional state governments of Styria in 1945?
- ... that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?
- ... that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr?
- ... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?
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- The Iberian lynx (pictured) is reclassified from endangered to vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
- American baseball player Willie Mays dies at the age of 93.
- In basketball, the Boston Celtics defeat the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals.
- A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City, kills fifty people.
On this day
- 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (in present-day Germany) before spreading to other parts of Europe.
- 1717 – The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London.
- 1724 – On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
- 1943 – Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge, England.
- 2010 – Julia Gillard (pictured) was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party.
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Dharma Productions is an Indian production company established by Yash Johar in 1976. The company has produced 45 Hindi films and presented four regional language films from other companies. Their first release came in 1980 with the Raj Khosla-directed Dostana which was followed by a series of commercial failures. Karan Johar's (pictured) directorial debut Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, and Rani Mukerji, was highly successful and established Dharma Productions as a leading production company in India. Their subsequent releases, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), all starring Khan, emerged as top-grossing Hindi films in overseas sales. In the late 2000s and 2010s, the company introduced the directors Ayan Mukerji, Shakun Batra and Shashank Khaitan, and the actors Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. They worked on several successful films for the company, including Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013), Kapoor & Sons (2016), Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017), and Raazi (2018). (Full list...)
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