Sir Edward Elgar, to receive an honorary degree. June 29 – The Automobile Association is founded in the United Kingdom. June 30 – Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", establishing his theory of special relativity. July July 1 – Hundreds of people die in the flooding of Guanajunto in Mexico. July 3 – France's Chamber of Deputies passes a bill for separation of church and state, 341 to 233. July 5 – Alfred Deakin takes office as the new Prime Minister of Australia. July 8 – U.S. President Roosevelt sends his 21-year-old daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and her party on a diplomatic journey to Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Korea. July 10 – A Japanese expedition takes control of the Russian island of Sakhalin after a short battle. July 11 – National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda valley of Wales: an underground explosion kills 120, with just one survivor. July 12 –The University of Sheffield is officially opened by King Edward VII in England. July 14 The government of France institutes its first government assistance program for elderly and disabled persons. In New Zealand, the first known suicide attack by a civilian (as opposed to sacrifices made in military combat) takes place in Murchison. July 15 – The popular fictional character Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief, is introduced in France. July 21 – Sixty members of the crew of the USS Bennington are killed in an explosion of the U.S. Navy gunboat in the harbor at San Diego. July 22 – Florence Kelly delivered her landmark speech about child labor before the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. July 24 – An 8.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Mongolia, the second-largest on record here. July 27 – The Taft–Katsura agreement is reached in Tokyo. July 28 – Frankie Neil becomes the new world bantamweight boxing champion by defeating title holder Harry Tenny in a 25-round bout at Colma, California. July 30 – At Basel in Switzerland, the International Zionist Conference delegates vote to reject the British officer of land in Uganda for a Jewish homeland. August August 2 – The Ancient Order of Druids initiates neo-Druidic rituals at Stonehenge in England. August 7 – King Oscar II of Sweden appoints Prince Gustaf to serve as his regent. August 8 – Fourteen employees of a department store in