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April 10, birthdays for Mandy Moore, Shay Mitchell, Chyler Leigh

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April 10, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Actress Mandy Moore celebrates her birthday today. Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 100th day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Daisy Ridley and Steven Seagal, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1939, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Parorexia Will Get You if You Don’t Watch Out.”

The article focused on a trend among college students that called for eating earthworms, goldfish and other strange animals.

“For parorexia, a Greek word meaning ‘perverted appetite,’ according to Dr. Charles F. Pabst, chairman of the press reference committee of Kings County Medical Society, is what the fish-gulpers and worm eaters have, and they’re plain nuts,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include singer and songwriter KENNETH “BABYFACE” EDMONDS, who was born in 1957; United Farm Workers of America labor union co-founder DOLORES HUERTA, who was born in 1930; actress CHYLER LEIGH, who was born in 1982; actor PETER MacNICOL, who was born in 1954; sportscaster and Hall of Fame football coach JOHN MADDEN, who was born in 1936; actress SHAY MITCHELL, who was born in 1987; actress MANDY MOORE, who was born in 1984; actor HAYLEY JOEL OSMENT, who was born in 1988; actor MICHAEL PITT, who was born in 1981; actress DAISY RIDLEY, who was born in 1992; actor and producer STEVEN SEAGAL, who was born in 1951; author PAUL THEROUX, who was born in 1941; and actor MAX VON SYDOW, who was born in 1929.

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JOSEPH PULITZER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1847. The American journalist and newspaper publisher founded Pulitzer Prizes, which have been awarded annually since 1917. Pulitzer died in South Carolina in 1911.

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WILLIAM BOOTH WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1829. The founder of the Salvation Army experienced the misery of poverty firsthand when he apprenticed to a pawnbroker at the age of 13. Booth broke with conventional church religion and established a quasi-military religious organization with military uniforms and ranks. Recruiting from the poor, from converted criminals and from many other social outcasts, his organization grew rapidly and its influence spread from England to the U.S. and to other countries. Booth died in 1912 in England.

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THE BEATLES BROKE UP ON THIS DAY IN 1970. In a press release accompanying promotional copies of his new solo album, Paul McCartney announced that he had no plans for working with The Beatles because of “personal differences, business differences, musical differences.” He stated that he didn’t know if the break was temporary or permanent, but the yearslong tension in the group coupled with the musicians’ solo work brought about the end of the band that year. McCartney sued to dissolve The Beatles in 1970, and the group was formally dissolved four years later.

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HUGO GROTIUS WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1583. The Dutch theologian, attorney, scholar and statesman’s beliefs profoundly influenced American thinking, especially with regard to the conscience of humanity. He died in Germany in 1645.

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

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“The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” — Salvation Army founder William Booth, who was born on this day in 1829