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Final Fantasy Tactics is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. Sony Computer Entertainment published the game in Japan on June 20, 1997, and the United States on January 28, 1998. It is the first game of the Tactics series within the Final Fantasy franchise, and the first entry set in the fictional world of Ivalice. The story follows Ramza Beoulve, who is placed in the middle of a military conflict between two noble factions coveting the throne of the kingdom. Production began in 1995 by Yasumi Matsuno, who was the director and writer. Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi (pictured) was the producer and Hiroyuki Ito designed the battles. Final Fantasy Tactics received critical acclaim, garnered a cult following, and has been cited as one of the greatest video games of all time. An enhanced port of the game, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, was released in 2007. (This article is part of a featured topic: Ivalice.)
Did you know ...
- ... that the Stadthalle Hannover (pictured), the largest classical music concert hall in Germany by capacity, was modelled after the Pantheon in Rome and completed by 1914?
- ... that during World War II, Terry Sanford captured a German officer by grabbing him by the belt?
- ... that Basshunter recorded "Fest i hela huset" with Swedish Big Brother contestants who had never worked with music professionally?
- ... that art dealer Inigo Philbrick was called a "mini Madoff" by a colleague – before he was convicted of wire fraud?
- ... that ancient Roman gynecologists believed that menstrual blood could be used to drive dogs insane?
- ... that the emo-revival album Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright contains samples from Malcolm in the Middle on three of its songs?
- ... that Olympic diver Millie Hudson, who attempted to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar in 1928, was a member of the Hammersmith Ladies Swimming Club along with Belle White, the first British diver to win an Olympic medal?
- ... that the Dnieper Balts might have worshipped bear heads on pillars?
In the news
- Gustavo Petro (pictured) wins the Colombian presidential election, defeating Rodolfo Hernández Suárez in the runoff.
- Ensemble, the alliance of incumbent president Emmanuel Macron, wins the French legislative election but loses its majority.
- In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Boston Celtics to win the NBA Finals.
- Former Bolivian president Jeanine Áñez is sentenced to ten years in prison on charges related to her succession to office during the 2019 political crisis.
On this day
- 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign.
- 1926 – Approximately 250,000 spectators attended the opening procession of the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, United States.
- 1959 – 35 people died after 22 fishing boats were capsized when the extratropical remnants of an Atlantic hurricane reached the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada.
- 1960 – The Mali Federation gained independence from France, but dissolved into Mali and Senegal two months later.
- 1982 – The International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, the first major conference in genocide studies, opened despite Turkish attempts to cancel it due to the inclusion of presentations on the Armenian genocide.
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (b. 1743)
- Juan Larrea (d. 1847)
- Olympia Dukakis (b. 1931)
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Gina Krog (20 June 1847 – 14 April 1916) was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor. She played a central role in the Norwegian women's movement from the 1880s until her death, notably as a leading campaigner for women's right to vote. In 1884, Krog co-founded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights with liberal MP Hagbart Berner. Over the next two decades, Krog co-founded the Women's Voting Association, the National Association for Women's Suffrage, and the Norwegian National Women's Council, spearheading the presentation of women's suffrage proposals to the Storting (the Norwegian parliament). She was an early member of the Liberal Party and served as a deputy member of its national board. Krog was regarded as an unapologetic liberal progressive during her time, seeking full and equal voting rights for all women on the same conditions as men, which was achieved in 1913. She was the first woman in Norway to receive a state funeral. Photograph credit: Eivind Enger; restored by Adam Cuerden
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