Here’s What Happened the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series

Henry Ford introduced the Model T, Butch Cassidy died in a shootout, and more.

This week, the Chicago Cubs won Major League Baseball’s World Series. As Cubs fans know, this was a long time coming: Chicago hadn’t won the title since 1908.

To give you some historical perspective of just how long ago that victory was, we’ve compiled a list of what happened the last time the Cubs won a World Series. (And after that, stick around to see what happened in 1948, the last time their competitor, the Cleveland Indians, won the title.)

The United States had no income tax (that would come five years later). Turkey was still part of the Ottoman Empire, and writers Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy were still alive. The tragedy of the Titanic

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