TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011

Today is Tuesday, March 15, the 74th day of 2011. There are 291 days left in the year.

1493 ― Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage

1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City)

1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

1928 ― Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)

1957 ― Third nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)

1964 ― LBJ asks for a ``War on Poverty”

1964 ― Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton)

1968 ― LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix ``most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1978 ― People's Republic of China performs nuclear test

1999 ― Pluto again becomes outermost planet