SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2014

Today is Saturday, March 15, the 74th day of 2014. There are 291 days left in the year.

1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York, N.Y.)

1908 ― First performance of Maurice Ravel’s “Rapsodie Espagnole”

1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

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

1946 ― British premier Attlee agrees with India’s right to independence

1951 ― Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company

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”