This Day, That Year – March 15

Rolls-Royce was established by Henry Royce and Charles Rolls on this day in 1906.

Did you know that:

• Coenraad J. van Houten was a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker born on this day in 1801
• Liberty Hyde Bailey was an American horticulturist and botanist born on this day in 1858
• Jesse W. Reno received a patent for the first escalator on this day in 1892