14th February

1477 - The earliest recorded Valentine's card is sent, in Norfolk.

1945 Dresden is reduced to rubble by Allied bombing.

1946 - The first genuine electronic computer goes into operation at the University of Pennsylvania.

1999 - Buckingham Palace admits that royal horses were sometimes drugged before official ceremonies.

2001 - A female soldier who goes AWOL to pose as a Page Three girl was demoted.

2001 - The last three-wheeled Robin Reliant rolls off the production line.