the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving. April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa. May May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London. June June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization. June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7-litre 35/45 hp Itala. June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague. June 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people. July July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State. July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen. July 15 – The London Electrobus Company started running the first ever service of battery-electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street. July 21 – The sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro, off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths. July 24 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control. August August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands. August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington. August 29 – The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers. August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and establishing the Triple Entente. September September 7 – British passenger liner sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City. September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions. October October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto