Today in History - History - August 11th

1976Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses & is hospitalized in Miami

1985Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

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

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

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

1944British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy

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

1984Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform

1993Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

199173rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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