Running Numbers

1 Number of months of a five-year term E.L. Beeler served before escaping his Philadelphia County prison in 1867. Beeler was re-arrested Feb. 18, 1898, while acting as a witness during court proceedings for a man seeking divorce from Beeler's ex-wife. If only M. Night was into Coen Brothers-type plots.

3 Number of games chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov won—while also chalking up two draws and one loss—against IBM's Deep Blue to win the match in Philadelphia Feb. 17, 1996.

60 Number of passengers rescued by the tugboat Laura B. after the Galtimore and Philadelphia Steamship Company's steamer Ericsson capsized and sunk on the Delaware Feb. 16, 1898.

11 Number of All-Star games—one for every year he was in the NBA—played by Julius Erving, who was born Feb. 22, 1950.

4,256 Number hits made—a league record—by former Phillie Pete Rose, whose meeting with MLB officials Feb. 21, 1989, led to his eventual lifetime ban from the game for betting on baseball. Fortunately, no professional athlete has ever gambled on sports since.

370,000 Total number of people who visited the Art Museum's Salvador Dal' exhibit, which opened Feb. 16, 2005. Salvador Dal' exhibit? In Philadelphia? Wha?