Today is Friday, March 15, the 74th day of 2013. There are 291 days left in the year.
1892 ― First escalator patented by inventor Jesse W. Reno (New York City)
1912 ― Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1945 ― Billboard publishes its first album chart (King Cole Trio is No. 1)
1952 ― Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
1956 ― “My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
1957 ― Third nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1964 ― LBJ asks for “War on Poverty”
1964 ― Liz Taylor's fifth marriage (Richard Burton)
1968 ― LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1999 ― Pluto again becomes outermost planet