Today is Wednesday, Aug. 3, the 216th day of 2016. There are 150 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Football Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy is 91. Singer Tony Bennett is 90. Actor Martin Sheen is 76. Football Hall of Famer Lance Alworth is 76. Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 75. Movie director John Landis is 66. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Marcel Dionne is 65. Country musician Randy Scruggs is 63. Actor John C. McGinley is 57. Hip-hop artist Spinderella (Salt-N-Pepa) is 45. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is 39. Actress Evangeline Lilly is 37.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that took him to the present-day Americas.

In 1914, Germany declared war on France at onset of WWI.

In 1916, Irish-born British diplomat Roger Casement, an advocate of independence for Ireland, was hanged for treason.

In 1921, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused to reinstate former Chicago players implicated in the ‘‘Black Sox’’ scandal, despite their acquittals in a trial.

In 1936, American Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, taking the 100-meter sprint.

In 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.

In 1972, the Senate ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. (The United States unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

Last year, President Obama unveiled a federal plan that seeks to slow global warming by dramatically shifting the way Americans get and use electricity.