Events January January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February February 7 – The "Mud March", the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London. February 11 – The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco. February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost. February 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearing and seal), is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. February 21 – The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost. February 24 – The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost. March March The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost. The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths. The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book". Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops. March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia. March 15–16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected. March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London. March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges. c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula. April April 7 – Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania. April 17 The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race. Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island; this will be