February 22, 1909 (Monday)
- With the USS Connecticut as the flagship, the Great White Fleet finished its round the world voyage. At 11:00 in the morning, the sixteen battleships and their escorts arrived at Hampton Roads, Virginia, where the fleet had departed more than a year earlier on December 16, 1907. President Roosevelt almost fell when his foot slipped while climbing up to a barbette on the USS Mayflower to address the Navy men as "the first battle fleet that has ever circumnavigated the globe".
- Born: Edmund Berkeley, American computer scientist, in New York City (d. 1988)
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