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Small and Big Facts of the Week
Cyclists Beyl and Van Kempen won the Six Days by a lap. - Mr. Millerand is elected senator for the Seine. The Châlons-Reims train hits a locomotive, killing two and injuring ten. - A Florida town is devastated by a tornado. - Pilot Landry, on a four-engine aircraft, travels from Paris to Amsterdam in 1 hour 50 minutes. - The US Army fleet prepares for the Pacific maneuvers. - Captain Sadoul is acquitted. - Belleville boxer Vinez and Mason draw at the Gaumont Palace. - The largest aircraft carrier is launched in the United States. - The body of a commercial employee is recovered from Charenton. - An American woman bequeaths her $50,000 fortune to dogs. - A Mexican city is destroyed by an earthquake. - On the occasion of his birthday, King Albert I reviewed the troops of the Brussels garrison. - A barge loaded with munitions explodes in the port of Rio de Janeiro. - The explorer Amundsen has embarked for Spitsbergen. - Mr. Henry Lapauze, curator of the "Petit Palais," has died. - Six thousand Arabs jeer Lord Balfour in Damascus. The Herriot Ministry resigns. - In a hotel on Rue Joubert, a man kills his girlfriend and commits suicide. - A painting by Ruysdaël, valued at 250,000 rubles, is stolen from a museum in Petrograd. - A 74-year-old American woman dies on the train returning from Cannes. - The bandit Marcel Pierson is arrested in Brussels. - Two airplanes in distress in the Mediterranean are rescued by ships. - Belgian cyclist Sellier wins the Paris-Roubaix race. - The church in Beauvais, in the Somme region, is destroyed by fire. - In Auteuil, the Prix du Président de la République is won by "Grand Seigneur." - A monument to Jules Guesde is unveiled in Roubaix.
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