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.
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