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A Liberal PM, suffragett­es & Villa lifting FA cup...

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IN 1913, Herbert Henry Asquith was Prime Minister – and would be the last sitting PM from the Liberal Party.

George V was King and HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the Royal Navy’s first oil-fired battleship.

The Commons rejected women’s right to vote and suffragett­e Emily Davison died when FAN Arthur with Mirror from day he was born she ran in front of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby. DH Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and Michael Foot – Labour leader between 1980 and 1983 – was born.

Aston Villa lifted the FA Cup, beating league winners Sunderland, while New Zealander Anthony Wilding won the Men’s Singles at Wimbledon. And a man’s average life expectancy was just 51.

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