Today is Saturday, Sept. 3, the 247th day of 2016. There are 119 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: ‘‘Beetle Bailey’’ cartoonist Mort Walker is 93. James “Whitey’’ Bulger is 87. Rock singer-musician Al Jardine is 74. Actress Valerie Perrine is 73. Rock guitarist Steve Jones (The Sex Pistols) is 61. Actor Steve Schirripa is 59. Actor Charlie Sheen is 51. Rock musician Tomo Milicevic (30 Seconds to Mars) is 37. Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White is 30. Hip-hop singer August Alsina is 24.

In 1189, England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

In 1783, representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War.

In 1868, the Japanese city of Edo was renamed Tokyo.

In 1914, Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa became pope; he took the name Benedict XV.

In 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland,

In 1976, America’s Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.

In 1951, the television soap opera ‘‘Search for Tomorrow’’ made its debut on CBS.

In 2015, A federal judge jailed Rowan County, Ky., Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, but five of her deputies agreed to issue the licenses themselves, potentially ending the church-state standoff.