Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 9

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February 9: Ashurah in Islam (2006)

• 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 (pictured) 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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