Link is the name of the fictional protagonist from Nintendo's Legend of Zelda video game series. Link was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and first appeared in the 1987 game The Legend of Zelda, as a generic sword-fighting hero, typical of fantasy adventure games though later games revealed significantly more details about him. The game's success — over 6.5m copies sold worldwide and that of its numerous sequels made Link one of Nintendo's most well-known characters. An important singularity of the character is that are several different incarnations of Link throughout the whole Legend of Zelda series, although they share a number of distinctive characteristics. The existence of multiple Links is made obvious on many occasions in the games, where games explicitly mention an ancient, legendary champion, identical in appearance to Link.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1846: The first baseball game (using modern rules) was played in Hoboken, New Jersey. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baseball_in_the_United_States)

1865: The Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, beginning the tradition of Juneteenth celebrations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth)

1867: Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire was executed by firing squad in Querétaro. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico)

1953: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as Soviet spies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_and_Julius_Rosenberg)

1961: Kuwait declared her independence from the United Kingdom. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait)

1978: The comic strip Garfield first appeared. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield)

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"True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher." -- Blaise Pascal (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal)