TODAY IN HISTORY - AUGUST 11TH

1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835) dies.

1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1933 – Jerry Falwell, American minister and television host (d. 2007) is born.

1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founded Apple Inc. is born.

1953 – Hulk Hogan, American wrestler and actor is born.

1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created Resident Evil is born.

1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail

1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.

1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

1995 – Russell Hill subway accident: The 1995 Russell Hill subway accident was a deadly train crash that occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Three people were killed and 30 were taken to hospital with injuries when one train rear-ended another train. The subway line was shut down for five days.

2006 – The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.

2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921) dies.

2015 – For the first time in Major League Baseball history, all 15 home teams won their game. Prior to this happening, the record was 12 which was reached over a century ago in 1914.