Today in History - History - August 11th

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

1993Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

1956Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"

1985Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

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

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

1984Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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