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