April 14, birthdays for Pete Rose, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Abigail Breslin

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April 14, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Baseball hit king Pete Rose celebrates his birthday today. AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File

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Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 104th day of the year.

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ON THIS DAY in 1914, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Gunman Captured with $1,000 Jewels in Winthrop Street.”

The article focused on a daylight burglar’s arrest thanks to an ambulance surgeon and driver.

“Promptness and ready wit on the part of the driver and surgeon of a Holy Family Hospital ambulance, which was returning from the Kings County Hospital, resulted today in the arrest of a desperate daylight burglar, who had just held up two women in their home at the point of a revolver,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include “Little Miss Sunshine” actress ABIGAIL BRESLIN, who was born in 1996; Oscar Award-winning actor for “The Pianist” ADRIEN BRODY, who was born in 1973; Oscar Award-winning actor for “Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life” PETER CAPALDI, who was born in 1958; “Once Upon a Time” actor ROBERT CARLYLE, who was born in 1961; “Away from Her” ACTRESS JULIE CHRISTIE, who was born in 1940; former basketball player CYNTHIA COOPER, who was born in 1963; comedian and actor BRAD GARRETT, who was born in 1960; “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actress SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR, who was born in 1977; “The Breakfast Club” actor and comedian ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL, who was born in 1968; Olympic bobsledder STEVEN HOLCOMB, who was born in 1980; singer and songwriter LORETTA LYNN, who was born in 1935; Hall of Fame baseball player Greg Maddux, who was born in 1966; and former baseball manager and player PETE ROSE, who was born in 1941.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN was assassinated on this day in 1865. Lincoln was shot while watching a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the following day. The assassin was actor John Wilkes Booth.

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“THE FOLDED CLOCK,” by Heidi Julavits, will be featured at the powerHouse Arena from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight in DUMBO. Julavits, making her first non-fiction debut, will be in conversation with Ben Marcus.

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