THIS DAY IN HISTORY - OCTIOBER 9

1936 - The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1958 - Pope Pius XII dies at age 82, ending a 19-year papacy. (He would be succeeded by Pope John XXIII.)

1974 - Businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, dies in Frankfurt, West Germany (at his request, he is buried in Jerusalem).

2006 - Google Inc. announces it is acquiring YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.

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