TODAY IN HISTORY

On Oct. 9, 1936, the first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

In 1967, Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader

Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture.

In 1975, Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2001, in the first daylight raids since the start of U.S.led attacks on Afghanistan, jets bombed the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.

In 2004, a tour bus from the Chicago area flipped in Arkansas, killing 15 people.

In 2006, Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.

In 2010, Chile’s 33 trapped miners cheered as a drill punched into their underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing 66 days.