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April 13, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Rapper Ty Dolla $ign celebrates his birthday today. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 103rd day of the year.

Notable people born on this day include Baron Davis and Al Green, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1952, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Tough Guy Held in Grudge Shooting That Took Life of Wrong Youth.”

The article focused on a vengeful man who killed the wrong person.

“According to Fagan, Cetta, 18, of 370 7th St., was killed by a ‘grudge’ bullet intended for a youth with whom he was walking. Cetta’s body was discovered on the sidewalk in front of 618 Carroll St. The police explained that the shooting arose from a long-smoldering animosity between Fazio and a 19-year-old youth who escaped the fatal bullet,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include singer PEABO BRYSON, who was born in 1951; musician JACK CASADY, who was born in 1944; U.S. Sen. ROBERT CASEY, who was born in 1960; Oscar Award-winning composer BILL CONTI, who was born in 1942; basketball player BARON DAVIS, who was born in 1979; actor TONY DOW, who was born in 1945; hockey player SERGEI GONCHAR, who was born in 1974; singer AL GREEN, who was born in 1946; chess player GARRY KASPAROV, who was born in 1963; golfer DAVIS LOVE III, who was born in 1964; actor RON PERLMAN, who was born in 1950; actress SAUNDRA SANTIAGO, who was born in 1957; actor RICK SCHRODER, who was born in 1970; rapper TY DOLLA SIGN, who was born in 1985; actor PAUL SORVINO, who was born in Brooklyn in 1939; actor LYLE WAGGONER, who was born in 1935; and musician MAX M. WEINBERG, who was born in 1951.

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TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGE HANDEL’S “MESSIAH.” In a charity performance at the New Musick Hall in Ireland in 1742, the composer sat at the harpsichord and conducted the first concert of his masterpiece “Messiah.” This sacred oratorio became Handel’s most popular work and has been performed every year since 1742. Newspapers of the day anticipated the popularity of the first performance and asked women not to wear hoops under their skirts and men not to wear swords so that 700 people could fit into a hall designed for 600.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1743. The third president of the U.S. and the second vice president was born in Virginia. Jefferson, who died in Virginia in 1826, wrote his own epitaph: “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia.”

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“SILENT SPRING” WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1962. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” warned humankind that for the first time in history, every person is subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from conception until death. Carson painted a vivid picture of how chemicals — used in many ways, but particularly in pesticides — have upset the balance of nature, undermining the survival of countless species. This popular and influential book was a soft-spoken battle cry to protect our natural surroundings. Its publication signaled the beginning of the environmental movement.

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BUTCH CASSIDY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1866. The notorious outlaw robbed banks and trains throughout the American West during the late 1800s with “the Wild Bunch” — a gang that teamed him with Harry Longabaugh (“the Sundance Kid”). Under pressure from Pinkerton agents, Cassidy and Sundance fled to South America in the early 1900s. Details of Cassidy’s death are uncertain, but many believe he was killed in Bolivia in 1908 while attempting to rob a mine station.

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

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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” — Thomas Jefferson, who was born on this day in 1743