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Cabot Tower on Signal Hill in St. John’s Newfoundland, was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot’s discovery of Newfoundland, and Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. In 1901, Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message at a position near the tower, the letter “S” in Morse Code sent from Cornwall, England to St. John’s, Newfoundland.