TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Oct. 9, 1967

Marxist revolutionary guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was summarily executed by the Bolivian army a day after his capture. ON THIS DATE

1910

A coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado left 56 miners dead.

1936

The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.