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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 that he committed 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...)

Arndt Jorgens

• ... that Arndt Jorgens (pictured) won five World Series despite not playing in a game?
• ... that 28 trillion tonnes of ice were lost worldwide between 1994 and 2017 due to climate change?
• ... that Daniel Chapo, the favorite to be the next president of Mozambique, was previously a radio announcer?
• ... that according to some metaphysicians, there are no relations?
• ... that William Henry Harrison Seeley was the first American recipient of the Victoria Cross?
• ... that farmed birds often get marks known as hock burns from the ammonia of other birds' waste?
• ... that the botanist Victor Jacob Koningsberger spoke out against the expulsion of Jewish academics in the occupied Netherlands?
• ... that there's a little Canada on Minnesota State Highway 36?
• ... that David W. Music has taught music, composed music, conducted music, and written about music?

Iberian lynx

• 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.

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Julia Gillard

• 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.