Today is Wednesday, Feb. 3, the 34th day of 2016. There are 332 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Comedian Shelley Berman is 91. Former senator Paul Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland, is 83. Football Hall-of-Famer Fran Tarkenton is 76. Actress Blythe Danner is 73. Football Hall-of-Famer Bob Griese is 71. Actress Morgan Fairchild is 66. Actress Pamela Franklin is 66. Actor Nathan Lane is 60. Rock musician Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) is 60. Actress Maura Tierney is 51.

In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for a federal income tax, was ratified.

In 1943, during World War II, the US transport ship Dorchester, which was carrying troops to Greenland, sank after being hit by a German torpedo; of the more than 900 men aboard, only some 230 survived.

In 1959, an American Airlines plane crashed into New York’s East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board. Rock ’n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. ‘‘The Big Bopper’’ Richardson died in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

In 1966, the Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first manmade object to make a soft landing on the moon.

In 1998, a US Marine plane sliced through the cable of a ski gondola in Italy, killing all 20 people inside.

In 2006, an Egyptian passenger ferry sank in the Red Sea during bad weather, killing more than 1,000 passengers.

Last year, a commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle at a crossing in Valhalla, N.Y., killing the vehicle’s driver and six people on the train.