Google announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.
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Hoover Dam began producing electricity and transmitting it to Los Angeles, California.
Bruce Springsteen released his album 'Tunnel of Love.'
The Dublin and Kingstown Railway officially opened.
One thousand radio stations from over 100 countries around the world simultaneously broadcast John Lennon's 'Imagine' in honor of what would have been his 50th birthday.
A fragment of a meteorite landed in Peekskill, New York, US, and smashed a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
