On this day, November the 3rd, in the year of 2016, the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball won the World Series, breaking an 108 year drought of not winning the championship.

Before winning in 2016, the Cubs last won the World Series during the Roosevelt administration in 1908. Through that 108 year time span, the Cubs found little success with their on the field play.

Whenever they would find their footing, something would always stop them from winning the World Series, such as when in 2003, spectator Steve Bartman interfered with a live foul ball, causing the Cubs to lose a series against the then Florida Marlins, making them not advance to the World Series (Bleacher Report).

However, with a team built by their then General Manager Theo Epstein (who helped the Boston Red Sox end their eight six year World Series drought), the Cubs started to win.

In 2015, the Cubs made it to the NLCS (the game for National League teams to advance to the World Series), and in 2016, they made it to the World Series, defeating the then Cleveland Indians (now Guardians), who themselves had a lengthy World Series drought (Britannica).

The subsequent victory parade was attended by an estimated 5 million people, the seventh largest gathering of people in history (WGN Radio 720).