Watch Newcastle United play Liverpool at St James's Park in 1901.
It was the year Queen Victoria died and King Edward VII took the Throne; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was Prime Minister; six British colonies of the vast empire united to form Australia; Marconi sent a wireless communication from the Isle of Wight to Cornwall; 26-year-old Winston Churchill makes his first ever Commons speech, on the Boer War; Britain's first ever cinema is opened in London; and the Royal Navy launches its first submarine...
It was the year Queen Victoria died and King Edward VII took the Throne; Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was Prime Minister; six British colonies of the vast empire united to form Australia; Marconi sent a wireless communication from the Isle of Wight to Cornwall; 26-year-old Winston Churchill makes his first ever Commons speech, on the Boer War; Britain's first ever cinema is opened in London; and the Royal Navy launches its first submarine...
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