Final Fantasy VI is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) in 1994. The game initially appeared on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and has since been ported by TOSE with minor differences to the Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. It was first released in North America as Final Fantasy III, although the original title has been restored in later releases. The game's story focuses on a group of rebels as they seek to overthrow an imperial dictatorship. Final Fantasy VI was the first game in the series to be directed by someone other than producer and series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi; the role was filled instead by Yoshinori Kitase and Hiroyuki Itō. Originally released to significant critical acclaim, it is still regarded as a landmark of the series and of the role-playing genre. It had a significantly greater number of battle customization options than its predecessors and the largest playable cast in the Final Fantasy series to date, excluding spin-off titles. It remains widely praised for its storyline, characters and non-linear style of play.

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451: The Battle of Chalons against Attila the Hun is the last major battle of the Western Roman Empire. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chalons)

1756: A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta)

1789: 577 deputies of the French National Assembly took the Tennis Court Oath, starting the French Revolution. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution)

1837: Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_of_the_United_Kingdom)

1973: Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Ezeiza_massacre)

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