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

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On this date in:

1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain, on a voyage that takes him to the present-day Americas.

1914: Germany declares war on France at the onset of World War I.

1936: Jesse Owens of the United States wins the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he takes the 100-meter sprint.

1949: The National Basketball Association is formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League.

1972: The U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. (The U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)

1981: U.S. air traffic controllers go on strike, despite a warning from President Ronald Reagan they would be fired, which they were.

2011: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denies all charges against him as he goes on trial for corruption and complicity in the deaths of protesters who’d helped drive him from power.

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1991: The Youngstown YWCA will close its battered-people center after Mahoning County commissioners fail to commit to provide the funding needed to keep it open.

The Youngstown Pride defeats the Memphis Rockers, 102-100, at Beeghly Center, giving Pride Coach Bob Patton his 100th victory and putting the team in sole possession of second place in the World Basketball League’s Northern Division.

The biggest twins born at North Side Hospital in 30 years are a boy and girl born to Mrs. Mary Nord of Hubbard. Adam is 10 pounds, 12 ounces and Ashley is 7 pounds, 14 ounces.

1976: Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Bannon restores to their jobs 41 city employees who were fired in January by Mayor Jack C. Hunter, who said they violated the state’s Ferguson Act when they went on strike.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge David F. McLain issues a temporary restraining order preventing the layoff of 37 Warren firefighters. Mayor Arthur Richards says the layoffs of firefighters, police and other city employees are necessary because the city faces a $700,000 budget deficit.

Campbell City Council votes to place a repeal of the city’s charter form of government on the ballot, which, if passed, would return the city to a statutory form of government.

1966: County building permits worth $1.2 million are issued for branches and additions in Austintown and Boardman to three large district firms: Strouss-Hirshberg’s department stores, Consolidated Warehouse and McKay Machine Co.

Three youths attending the Mahoning Valley Vocational School are injured when a passenger sleeping in the front seat of a car stretches, pushing the driver out of the car. Police say the driver, Michael Fisher, was apparently leaning on the door handle when pushed. He and Paul Wyatt and Dennis Howard all suffered minor injuries.

James Carle, Charles Avenue, a 1957 graduate of Boardman High School, is named supervising elementary principal for four schools in Liberty Union District of Delaware County.

1941: Between 1,200 and 1,500 delegates and wives are arriving in Youngstown for the Ohio convention of the American Federation of Labor at the Hotel Pick Ohio. It’s the first AFL state convention in the city since 1913.

An Office of Production Management order stops the use of silk in the manufacture of hosiery. It has 40 million women discussing the prospects of longer skirts, bare legs and the return of cotton hosiery.