Today in History - History - August 11th

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

1985Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

1950Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time

1984Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform

1944British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy

1998Palestine Liberation Organisation and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela

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

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

1929Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)

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

1858Christiaan Eijkman, Nijkerk Netherlands, physician and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1929), (d. 1930)

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

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

1886Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (30) weds Olivia Davidson (32) Athens, Ohio

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

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

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