February 16, 1909 (Tuesday)
- At the West Stanley Colliery in Stanley, County Durham, England, 160 coal miners were killed.
- Born: Hugh Beaumont, American TV actor who portrayed Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver, in Eudora, Kansas (d. 1982)
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