Today is Wednesday, Aug. 31, the 244th day of 2016. There are 122 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Baseball Hall-of-Famer Frank Robinson is 81. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 71. Singer Van Morrison is 71. Actor Richard Gere is 67. Olympic gold medal hurdler Edwin Moses is 61. Rock singer Glenn Tilbrook is 59. Former Red Sox pitcher Hideo Nomo is 48. Singer Deborah Gibson is 46. Golfer Padraig Harrington is 45.

In 1881, the first US tennis championships (for men only) began in Newport, R.I.

In 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.3 devastated Charleston, S.C., killing at least 60 people.

In 1939, the first issue of Marvel Comics, featuring the Human Torch, was published by Timely Publications.

In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit the Northeast, with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and parts of Massachusetts bearing the brunt of the storm, which resulted in some 70 deaths.

In 1980, Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike.

In 1986, the Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea, causing both to sink; up to 448 people reportedly died.

In 1997, a car crash in Paris killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.

Last year, the State Department released roughly 7,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, including about 150 e-mails that were censored because they contained information deemed classified.