Today In History For February 28th

Today is Monday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2011. There are 306 days left in the year.

On Feb. 28, 1911, President William Howard Taft nominated William H. Lewis to be the first black Assistant Attorney General of the United States. (Lewis took office in March 1911 and served until April 1913.)

In 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes.

In 1975, more than 40 people were killed in London's Underground when a subway train smashed into the end of a tunnel.