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
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