Today In History For February 23rd

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2011. There are 311 days left in the year.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi.

On Feb. 23, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, following word of a possible assassination plot in Baltimore.

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.