1901 (11) Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in England to Newfoundland in Canada. The final spike is driven on the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda Railway in Kisumu, Kenya. When a Liverpool Baptist minister calls the South African concentration camps murder camps and says that Britain cannot win battles without striking a mans heart through his wifes honour and his childs life, a crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house. And the first of sixteen Cape Government Railways 8th Class 2-8-0 Consolidation type locomotives enter service, designated Class 8X on the South African Railways in 1912.
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