The year is 1908 in America, and the Chicago Cubs have just won the Major League Baseball World Series making them the first ever professional baseball team to compete in three consecutive World Series Championship baseball games.
What else was going on around the world in 1908?
1. The very first Model-T was introduced to the world by the legendary Henry Ford.
2. Construction of the infamous Titanic began in Belfast, Ireland.
3. Ironic as it is, SOS was adopted as the standard radio broadcasted distress signal...
4. The very first Mother's Day was celebrated.
5. The first passenger flight lifts off under the control of French pilot Henri Farman.
6. The timeless masterpiece "Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz" by author Frank L. Baum is published and takes America by storm.
7. The U.S. population is just shy of 89-million and the proud U.S.A. Flag has merely 45 stars within her blue stitching that depict official American States.
8. Eggs are $0.14 cents per dozen, First-Class Postage stamps are $0.02 cents a piece, Sugar is a mere $0.04 cents a pound, and Coffee only $0.15 cents a pound following suit.
9. A ridiculous 7.1-magnitude Earthquake annihilates Sicily and Calabria, Italy. Exactly 12-minutes later a massive 39-foot-tall Tsunami follows. 75-200-thousand Italians lose their lives.
10. Japanese immigrants are forbidden entrance into the United States.
11. For the first time ever, female athletes are allowed to compete on the world stage in London in the IX-Olympic Games.
12. Middle Eastern Countries begin the first ever recorded petroleum production.
13. Thomas Edison launches the Motion Picture Patents Company, intending to control production and raise admission prices. (Yeah, the dude who invented the lightbulb was no-joke still alive and breathing when the Cubbies won the series last...)
14. Cellophane is invented solely for the purpose of use as a stain-proof table cloth.
15. The very first electric powered washing machine is invented by Hurley Co., a Chicago based manufacturer. They named it: The Mighty Thor.
16. "Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship" by Robert Baden-Powell is published. That same year the first ever Boy Scout Troop was formed in England therein creating the world renowned Boy Scouts.
17. Ironically... Alex Joss of the Cleveland Bronchos Professional Baseball Club pitches a no-hitter. This no-hitter is part of two that make Joss the only pitcher in Major League Baseball History to no-hit the same team twice. The team Joss pitched no-hits to? The Chicago White Sox.
18. Wilbur Wright, one of the Wright Brothers, conducts his first public flight demonstration over the Hunaudieres horse racing track in Le Mans, France. The flight lasted only 1-minute and 45-seconds.
19. Henry Pu Yi, of the Manchu Aisin Gioro Dynasty becomes the new Emperor of China. He was only 2-years old at the time.
20. Last but certainly not least, the timeless classic: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is finally published. The popular baseball jingle known the world over is now 108-years old.
