Meanwhile, the Chicago Cubs win their last World Series. 1909 - H. Geiger and E. Marsden shoot some helium at some gold, causing Ernst Rutherford to discover that atoms have a nucleus. 1912 - Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett fall madly in love aboard a sinking Royal Mail Steamer Titanic , killing over a thousand passengers. It was sad when the great ship went down. 1913 - Federal Reserve Act and Income Tax Constitutional Amendment enacted.
Many conspiracy theories follow.
Record-breaking numbers of people die. 1917 - Russia and a few of its neighbors become the first test case for Marx's theories. Unfortunately, some of the variables from the control group infect the sample and skew the results. Then Stalin comes in and really skews the results. Ethanol is banned throughout the United States thanks to, of all things, a Constitutional amendment.