The Ottoman Empire, the Austria-Hungary Empire, the Russian Empire, and Persia still existed.
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Wrigley Field did not exist.
This is what a car looked like.
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Teddy Roosevelt was the president of the United States.
The Eiffel Tower started sending radio messages over long distances.
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This is what Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine looked like.
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Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was in utero.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was 2 months old.
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Bette Davis was 6 months old.
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Brooklyn's Tim Jordan led major league baseball with 12 home runs.
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White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh was tops with 40 wins.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were on the run in Bolivia.
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Puyi, China's last true emperor, took the throne at age 2.
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Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term schizophrenia.
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An observatory built by Islamic astronomer Ulugh Beg in the 1400s was rediscovered in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Thomas Selfridge had just become the first person to die in an airplane crash.
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The pilot, Orville Wright, survived.
Oil was discovered in the Middle East.
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The rights to the deposit found in Masjid-al-Salaman, Persia (now Iran) were immediately acquired by a company that would later become BP (British Petroleum).
The Geiger counter was a new invention.
The 1908 Summer Olympics in London were wrapping up.
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And plans to build RMS Titanic had just been approved by White Star Line executives.
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