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Shojo Beat was a shōjo manga magazine published in North America by Viz Media. Launched in June 2005 as a sister magazine for Shonen Jump, it featured serialized chapters from six manga series per issue, as well as articles on Japanese culture, manga, anime, fashion and beauty. Viz launched a related imprint of the same name for female-oriented manga, light novels and anime. Targeted at women aged 16 to 18, the first issue of Shojo Beat launched with a circulation of 20,000. By 2007, the average circulation was approximately 38,000 copies, with half coming from subscriptions rather than store sales. It was well received by critics, though some found the early issues boring and poorly written. In May 2009, Viz announced that it was discontinuing the magazine; the July 2009 issue was the last released. Fans were disappointed at the news. Industry experts felt its loss left female manga fans without a magazine of their own, but praised Viz for continuing the Shojo Beat imprint and branding for its shōjo manga and anime releases. (Full article...)

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Miami tower collapse

In Saskatchewan, Canada, 751 unmarked graves are discovered at the former site of the Marieval Indian Residential School.
In the United States, a condominium tower near Miami collapses (pictured), killing at least four people and leaving 159 others missing.
Former president of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III dies at the age of 61.
Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper accused of violating the national security law in Hong Kong, closes.

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June 26

Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges

1295 – Przemysł II was crowned King of Poland in the first coronation of a Polish ruler in 219 years.
1889 – Bangui, the capital and largest city of the present-day Central African Republic, was founded in French Congo.
1996 – Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered while stopped at a traffic light, an event that helped establish Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau.
2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges (plaintiff pictured) that the right of same-sex couples to marry is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
John Stevens (b. 1749)
Violette Szabo (b. 1921)

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The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a large strepsirrhine primate endemic to Madagascar, and the most-recognized lemur due to its long black-and-white ringed tail. The species is social, living in groups of up to thirty individuals, with females being dominant. It is considered to be an endangered species, with only about 2,000 ring-tailed lemurs left in the wild as of 2017; its main threat is habitat destruction, but droughts and harvesting for bushmeat or pets also take their toll. It breeds readily in captivity, and a similar number of animals are kept in zoos around the world. This ring-tailed lemur was photographed near Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar.

Photograph credit: Charles James Sharp

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