08 happened on June 1900: Marconi in the sea lever

08/06/14

consent of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of the Navy transfers Guglielmo Marconi to the sea lever. The next day Marconi will be enrolled as a volunteer for a year in the Workers category and destined for the Italian Embassy in London to the dependence of the naval officer.

[For the industrial exploitation of his invention Marconi had set up in Great Britain a company that bore his name - Marconi's Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. - and, for the commitments with it, he owed according to British law to reside in London]

Source: Military Navy