Today in History - History - August 11th

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

1984Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform

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

1985Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic

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

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

1993Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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