in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills 120, with just one survivor. 11 August – Aliens Act 1905, the first modern legislation to control immigration into the U.K. 12 August – First running of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course 25 August – 'Ancient Order of Druids' initiate neo-druidic rituals at Stonehenge. 26 September – Newbury Racecourse first used. 3 October – HMS Dreadnought is laid down at Portsmouth, revolutionising battleship design and triggering an international naval arms race. 13 October – Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a Liberal Party rally at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign. 18 October – London County Council's new street at Kingsway and redevelopment of Aldwych are opened. 21 October – Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a Trafalgar Day concert in London. 26 October – Aspirin sold in the UK for the first time. 5 November – Edward VII declares his eldest daughter The Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, the Princess Royal. He also orders that the daughters of Princess Louise, Lady Alexandra Duff and Lady Maud Duff are to be styled as Princesses of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the style Highness. 19 November – 39 men die in a fire at a model lodging house in Watson Street, Glasgow. 28 November – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin as a political party whose goal is independence for all of Ireland. 4 December – Internal splits within the Conservative Party over tariff reform lead to the resignation of Balfour as Prime Minister. Campbell-Bannerman takes over for the Liberal Party, pending a general election in the new year. 6 December – ”Jacky" Fisher promoted to Admiral of the Fleet. 1905 Suicide rate of 303 per million, all-time UK peak year. Local authority expenditure reaches an all-time peak as a proportion of all government expenditure of 51%. Publications E. Clerihew Bentley's first published collection of clerihews Biography for Beginners, illustrated by G. K. Chesterton. Angela Brazil's first novel A Terrible Tomboy. Arthur Conan Doyle's anthology The Return of Sherlock Holmes. E. M. Forster's novel Where Angels Fear to Tread. Robert Hichens' novel The Garden of Allah. W. J. Locke's novel The