February 15, 1909 (Monday)
- The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill for statehood for the territories of Arizona and New Mexico. The Senate Territories Committee tabled the bill on February 27 after Minnesota's Senator Knute Nelson charged that New Mexican officials were corrupt. The two states would be admitted in 1912.
- Park County, Wyoming, was created.
- Born: Miep Gies, Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian, who helped hide Anne Frank and preserved her diary, in Vienna (d. 2010)
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