Today in History - History - August 11th

1985Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

1944British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Italy

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

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

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

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

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

1993Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

1984During radio voice test US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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