February 21, 1909 (Sunday)
- Rioting broke out in Omaha, Nebraska, as a mob of 3,000 men and boys smashed buildings in the Greek section of town, centred at 26th and Q Streets. Italians and Rumanians. After a Greek resident had killed an Omaha policeman on Friday, a local attorney reportedly told a gathered crowd, "The blood of an American is on the hands of those Greeks, and some method should be adopted to avenge his death and rid the city of this class of persons."
- President Roosevelt's nephew, Stewart Douglas Robinson, was killed after falling from the sixth floor of a dormitory room at Harvard University's Hampden Hall. Robinson, 19, was a sophomore at Harvard.
- Born: Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor, in Lucerne (still living in 2011)
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