America - 1916AD

In 1916AD:

• U.S. troops under Pershing invaded Mexico in retaliation for raids by Pancho Villa.
• U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell unrest; the occupation lasted until 1924.
• Margaret Sanger was arrested for opening a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn.
• Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• American poet Carl Sandburg published his first book Chicago Poems.

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