Today in History - History - August 11th

1963Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational

1944British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy

1980Yanks Reggie Jackson hits his 400th HR off Chicago's Britt Burns

1919Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau - named after sponser Indian Packing Company

1984Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform

1993Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)

1985Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

1993Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

1984Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olympic track golds

1956Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"

1953Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Augusta Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89)

1921Alex Haley, Ithaca New York, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), (d. 1992)

1925Physicist James Chadwick (33) weds Aileen Stewart-Brown

1949Molecular biologist Francis Crick (33) weds artist Odile Speed (29)

2014Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (Mork & Mindy, Good Will Hunting), commits suspected suicide at 63

1994Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81

1937Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies at 75

1986Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (1963 Wimbledon), dies of a brain tumour at 45

2003Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach, dies in a car accident at 66

1919Andrew Carnegie, US steel industrialist/philanthropist, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83