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Wii console and its controller

The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. The fifth major home console released by the company, it is the successor to the GameCube and was released on November 19, 2006. Although a competitor in the seventh generation of video game consoles, the Wii aimed to appeal to a larger and broader target demographic, directing towards the "casual" market rather than the "core" audience. Features of the console include a controller that can be pointed at the screen to function as a pointing device, a Wi-Fi connection via WiiConnect24, and easy-to-navigate software. The console was formally revealed at E3 in 2005 by Satoru Iwata under the code name "Revolution". Other variants, such as the Wii Mini, were also released. The console won numerous awards and was praised for its broad-audience simplicity with some criticism for hardware limitations. By 2013, the Wii had sold over 100 million consoles internationally and was followed by the Wii U in 2012. (Full article...)

Front page of The Anglo-African

• ... that The Anglo-African (pictured) was the first newspaper to be published in the British Colony of Lagos?
• ... that it has cost about the same to maintain Broomhead and More Hall Reservoirs as it did to build them in the first place?
• ... that Brazilian wheelchair racer Vanessa Cristina de Souza won a race despite completing the last two kilometres (1.2 mi) with a flat tyre?
• ... that the Sky Pool is both a swimming pool and a bridge between two apartment buildings?
• ... that Coastal Carolina football coach Chad Staggs has degrees in math education and tourism management?
• ... that the dust jacket of the book A Brightness Long Ago contained specks of gold foil?
• ... that Billy Strings's 2019 album Home stayed on Billboard's Bluegrass Albums chart for 77 consecutive weeks?
• ... that despite its common name of Santa Rita Mountain aster, Symphyotrichum potosinum can no longer be found in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona?

SpaceX Crew-3 launch

• Kosmos 1408 is destroyed by a Russian anti-satellite weapon, producing space debris.
• Kiril Petkov and Asen Vasilev, wins the most seats in the Bulgarian general election
  .
• SpaceX's Crew-3 mission (launch pictured) takes four astronauts to the International Space Station.
• Former South African president F. W. de Klerk, who negotiated the end of apartheid with Nelson Mandela, dies at the age of 85.

November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)

Mayflower

• 1620 – The Mayflower (depicted), which brought the Pilgrims from England to the New World, sighted Cape Cod.
• destroyed each other
  in the Indian Ocean.
• 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.
• 1991 – Mexican singer Luis Miguel released his album Romance, which led to the revival of interest in bolero music.
• a brawl between players spilled into the crowd when Ron Artest
  attacked a fan who had thrown a drink at him.