Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 9
February 9: Ash Wednesday, Chinese New Year's Day (Year of the Rooster), Tết Nguyên Ðán in Vietnam (2005)
- 474 - As the seven-year old Leo II was deemed too young to rule, his father Zeno was crowned as the co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1895 - Volleyball was invented at a YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
- 1943 - World War II: Allied forces secured Guadalcanal of the Solomon Islands from the Imperial Japanese Army, concluding the Battle of Guadalcanal, a key victory in the Pacific War.
- 1950 - Red scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accused the U.S. State Department of being filled with communists.
- 1960 - Joanne Woodward was honored with the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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