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: The Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands ended, giving the Allied forces a key victory in the Pacific War over the Japanese military.
- 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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