A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
10 February 1906
HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened
9 February 1941
Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
8 February 1879
The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney
6 January 1895
Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island
4 February 1555
John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
3 February 1984
Dr John Buster and a research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in the United States announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another…