February 18, 1909 (Thursday)
- U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt convened at the White House the first North American Conservation Conference, with delegates from the United States, Canada, and Mexico meeting at the East Room of the White House to discuss the conservation of the natural resources of the continent.
- Born: Wallace Stegner, American author, in Lake Mills, Iowa (d. 1993)
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