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April 14, birthdays for Anderson Silva, Adrien Brody, Sarah Michelle Gellar

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April 14, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

MMA legend Anderson Silva celebrates his birthday today. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

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

Notable people born on this day include Sarah Michelle Gellar and Adrien Brody, among others.

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ON THIS DAY IN 1924, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Year in Sing Sing Sentence Given to Chiropractor.”

The article focused on a Brooklyn chiropractor who was convicted of second-degree manslaughter.

“Assistant District Attorney James I. Cuff, who prosecuted him, brought out that on Dec. 13, last, he was called by Andrew Germuth to treat his 5-year-old daughter Caroline. The child was suffering from diphtheria. Instead of ordering complete rest and the scientifically recognized treatment for such an ailment, Meyer manipulated the child’s spine and wiggled her neck, gave no antitoxin or other antidotes and aggravated the diphtheria so that when Dr. Clifton Dance was called in on the night of Dec. 16, it was too late to save Caroline and she died an hour later,” the Eagle reported.

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include actress ABIGAIL BRESLIN, who was born in 1996; Oscar Award-winning actor ADRIEN BRODY, who was born in 1973; actor PETER CAPALDI, who was born in 1958; actor ROBERT CARLYLE, who was born in 1961; 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; actress SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR, who was born in 1977; actor and comedian ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL, who was born in 1968; Olympic bobsledder STEVEN HOLCOMB, who was born in 1980; former baseball player DAVID CHRISTOPHER JUSTICE, who was born in 1966; singer and songwriter LORETTA LYNN, who was born in 1935; Hall of Fame baseball player GREG MADDUX, who was born in 1966; former baseball manager and player PETER ROSE, who was born in 1941; and MMA fighter ANDERSON SILVA, who was born in 1975.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED ON THIS DAY IN 1865. The president 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 John Wilkes Booth, a young actor.

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“GRAPES OF WRATH” WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1939. John Steinbeck’s novel about the Great Depression won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. It chronicled the mass migration to California of dispossessed farmers from the Dust Bowl region of the Great Plains.

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SIR JOHN GIELGUD WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1904.The English director and actor played the role of Hamlet more than 500 times. He made his professional film debut in “Who Is the Man?” in 1924. Other film credits include “Arthur,” “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Plenty.” He won the Tony Award for Best Director in 1961 for “Big Fish Little Fish.” Gielgud died in England in 2000.

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THE FIRST AMERICAN ABOLITION SOCIETY WAS FOUNDED ON THIS DAY IN 1775. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was founded in Philadelphia.

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

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“I am all in favor of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.” — the late actor John Gielgud, who was born on this day in 1904