In 1925 Pershing was sent to try to help resolve the hot border dispute between Peru & this country

In 1912, in the aftermath of the scramble for this continent, Britain & France controlled most of it In 1912 this Native American won the decathlon & pentathlon In 1913 he invented a counter for detecting atomic particles In 1922 the South Bend Tribune established WSBT, this state's first radio station In 1933 he hit in 61 straight games for the San Francisco Seals; he only reached 56 as the Yankee Clipper In 1933 this man's mercantile agency merged with one run by competitor Robert Dun In 1937 he painted a masterpiece that depicted the bombing of a Spanish town In 1940, at age 84, he became premier of France; after the war he was tried for treason & sent to prison for life