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Sega is a Japanese video game developer and publisher headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. It was founded by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart on June 3, 1960; shortly after, the company acquired the assets of its predecessor, Service Games of Japan. Sega developed its first coin-operated game, Periscope, in the late 1960s. Following a downturn in the arcade business in the early 1980s, Sega developed video game consoles, starting with the SG-1000 and Master System, but struggled against competitors such as the Nintendo Entertainment System. Sega released its next console, the Sega Genesis, in 1988; it found success outside Japan starting with Sonic the Hedgehog in 1991. In 2001, Sega stopped making consoles to become a third-party developer and publisher, and was acquired by Sammy Corporation in 2004. Sega produces multi-million-selling game franchises, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War, and Yakuza, and is the world's most prolific arcade game producer. (Full article...)

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San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

... that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds (pictured), ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water?
... that though formerly a vassal to the Mongol Empire, Eastern Xia was later destroyed by the Mongols because it rebelled against them?
... that visual anthropologist David MacDougall won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, To Live With Herds, about Uganda's Jie people?
... that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides?
... that it took three years to construct a subway line to 86th Street in New York City, and another nine years to extend it by one stop to 95th Street?
... that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
... that doctor Carl K. Becker responded to emergency calls in the Ituri Rainforest until the age of 70?
... that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?

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Riot damage in Minneapolis

SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 make their first crewed launch for NASA.
Protests and riots (aftermath pictured) break out across the United States following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Costa Rica becomes the first Central American country to legalise same-sex marriage.
A Pakistan International Airlines passenger aircraft crashes in Karachi, killing ninety-seven people.

On this day

June 3: Feast day of Saint Charles Lwanga and the Uganda Martyrs (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)

Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C.

1658 – Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
1892 – Liverpool F.C. (stadium pictured), one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
1940 – Nazi official Franz Rademacher proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
1973 – At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing the six members of the crew and eight bystanders on the ground.

Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah (d. 1511)
Thomas Hutchinson (d. 1780)
Susannah Constantine (b. 1962)

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Anna Palm de Rosa (1859–1924) was a Swedish artist and landscape painter. In the 1890s, she was one of Sweden's most popular painters, with her watercolours of steamers, sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm, but she left Sweden for good at the age of 36, marrying an Italian and spending the rest of her life in southern Italy.

This painting, dated 1885, shows a game of ombre at Brøndums Hotel, in Skagen in the north of Denmark. The hotel is remembered for its close associations with the late 19th-century artists' colony known as the Skagen Painters. In order to help cover their board and lodgings, some of the artists donated their work to the hotel, where the pictures were displayed on the walls of the dining room. This painting is now in the collection of Skagens Museum.

Painting credit: Anna Palm de Rosa

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