February 1909 - February 4, 1909 (Thursday)

February 4, 1909 (Thursday)

• Edgeworth David and his crew successfully rendezvoused with the ship Nimrod.
• The California House of Representatives voted 46–28 to pass a school segregation bill to "establish separate schools for Indian children and for children of Mongolian or Japanese or Chinese descent" to block Asian-Americans from attending school with White students. Bills prohibiting Asian-Americans from serving on corporate boards or from living outside districts both failed. The segregation bill moved on to the State Senate.