The 100 Years War.

Unlike any other city, Chicago has a love affair with it's Cubs. For 100 years Cubs fans have watched their team pitch, catch, bat and lose. The losing is so historic and monumental that it is celebrated like no other failure in sports. Around town the Cubs are respectfully known as the "Lovable Losers" by friend and foe alike. For years Cub fans would look upon weepy, loathsome Red Sox fans and laugh. What a bunch of pussies. So they sold the Babe. At least you got a broadway play out of it. Ernie "Mr. Cub" Banks never even played in the playoffs.

For most of us it's hard to put in perspective just what 100 years means. Just think about that number! If you were celebrating your 100th birthday this year you weren't alive for the last Cubbies' World Series parade. But in case you are having trouble bending your mind around that number you're in luck because I have compiled a partial list of events that have happened since the last time the Cubbies called themselves baseball's best. Enjoy!

1908

   

  Cubs win their 2nd and last World Series.

1909

* Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.

1910

* Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.

1912

* Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
* The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
* Clarence Crane created Life Savers.

1913

* The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
* The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as Ecstasy.
* Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
* Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.

1916
   

   Cubs move into Wrigley Field
* Radios tuners invented, that received different stations.
* Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.

1918

* Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.

1920

* The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
* The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson.

1923

* Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
* Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.

1926

* Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.

1927

* Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
* Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.

1928

* Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.

1929

* Yo-Yo invented as an American fad.

1935

* The first canned beer made.

1936

* Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.

1937

* The first jet engine is built.

1938

* The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.

1939

* Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.

1943

* Richard James invents the slinky.
* James Wright invent silly putty.
* Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.

1944

* The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.

1945

* The atomic bomb invented.

1950

* The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.

1951

* Super glue invented.

1952

* Mr. Potato Head patented.
* The first diet soft drink sold.

1954

* Ray Kroc started McDonald's.

1961

* Valium invented.
* The non-dairy creamer invented.

1967

* The first handheld calculator invented.

1969

* The arpanet (first internet) invented.
* The artificial heart invented.

1971

* VCR or videocassette recorder invented.

1972

* Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.

1973

* Bic invents the disposable lighter.

1979

* Cellular phones invented.
* Walkman invented.
* Scott Olson invents roller blades.

1984

* The Apple Macintosh invented.

1985

* Windows program invented by Microsoft.

1989

* High-definition television invented.

1998

* Viagra invented.