1897 1 penny Great Britain UK Queen Victoria large coin KM 755

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1897 1 penny Great Britain UK Queen Victoria large coin KM 755
1897 UK Events
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13 May – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first ever wireless communication over open sea when the message "Are you ready" is transmitted across the Bristol Channel from Lavernock Point in South Wales to Flat Holm Island, a distance of 3.7 miles (6.0 km).
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19 May – the Anglo-Irish writer Oscar Wilde is released from prison and goes into exile on the Continent.
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22 May – the Blackwall Tunnel, at this time the longest underwater road tunnel in the world, is opened for traffic beneath the River Thames in the East End of London by the Prince of Wales.
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22 June – Queen Victoria celebrates her accession to the throne in 1837 with her Diamond Jubilee celebrations, centred on London.
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26 June – at the Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead, Charles Parsons gives an audacious unscheduled display before the world's navies of the unprecedented speed attainable by his steam turbine-powered
Turbinia
.
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10 September – first conviction for drink-driving given, to London taxi driver George Smith
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Rudyard Kipling's novel
Captains Courageous
and poem "Recessional".
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H. G. Wells' novel
The Invisible Man
and short story "The Crystal Egg".