1922 - Cubs beat Phillies 26-23 in highest scoring major-league game 1940 - First British night bombing of Germany (Berlin) 1944 - US Army XII Corps reaches Troyes, France 1960 - AFL begins placing players names on back of their jerseys 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1979 - Somali adopts constitution 1988 - Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston 1991 - Carl Lewis runs 100m in a world record 9.86 seconds 2014 - 66th Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Seth Meyers broadcast on NBC 2017 - President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling More Historical Events »