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December 5, 2016 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Keri Hilson celebrates her birthday today. Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 340th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Little Richard and Joan Didion, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1932, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Accused Prison Guard Slays Wife in Home.”

The article focused on Herbert Nolan, a prison guard who shot and killed his wife and then attempted to commit suicide after he was suspected in connection with the murder of a Brooklyn jail head keeper.

“The weapon used was a .38-caliber revolver, from which four shots had been fired. There was a fifth bullet in the gun, and the hammer had struck it but the shell had not exploded,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress MORGAN BRITTANY, who was born in 1950; opera singer and one of the “Three Tenors” JOSÈ CARRERAS, who was born in 1946; actress and comedian MARGARET CHO, who was born in 1968; author and journalist JOAN DIDION, who was born in 1934; singer KERI HILSON, who was born in 1982; actor JEROEN KRABBE, who was born in 1944; singer LITTLE RICHARD, who was born in 1935; singer and songwriter JIM MESSINA, who was born in 1947; singer CHAD MITCHELL, who was born in 1936; Hall of Fame football player ART MONK, who was born in 1957; actor FRANKIE MUNIZ, who was born in 1985; actress PAULA PATTON, who was born in 1975; and author CALVIN TRILLIN, who was born in 1935.

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WALT DISNEY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY in 1901. The innovative animator, filmmaker, producer, studio head and theme park developer is best known for his creation of Mickey Mouse. He received a record-breaking 22 Academy Awards in competitive categories, as well as three honorary Oscars and the Irving Thalberg Award. He died in Los Angeles in 1966.

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PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN WAS BORN ON THIS DAY in 1782. He served as the eighth president of the U.S. from 1837 to 1841 and was the first president to have been born an American citizen. His term was troubled by bank and business failures, depression and unemployment. He was born in New York and died there in 1862.

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FRITZ LANG WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1890. The Austrian filmmaker achieved critical success with his Expressionism-influenced 1927 silent film “Metropolis” and his first sound film “M”, both of which pit individuals against a corrupt society in a malignant, mechanistic world. Other works include “You Only Live Once” and “The Big Heat.” He died in Beverly Hills in 1976.

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GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY in 1839. He was a cavalry officer in the U.S. Civil War whose courage and leadership brought him admiration and fame. He later spent 10 years on the Great Plains fighting in the Indian Wars and leading a successful Black Hills expedition in 1874 to find gold. During a campaign to move the Lakota Sioux onto reservations to make way for the gold rush, Custer attacked an encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne in 1876. Outnumbered, he and about 215 of his men were quickly killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn — now considered one of the biggest military fiascoes in U.S. history.

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THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY will host “Deirdre Bair on ‘Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend’” tonight at 6:30 p.m. National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair will discuss her new book that reveals the man behind the notorious Brooklyn-born gangster. For more information, visit brooklynhistory.org.

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Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

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“The first thing that you lose on a diet is brain mass.” — actress and comedian Margaret Cho, who was born on this day in 1968