Google announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Phantom of the Opera' was premiered in London with stars Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman.
Hoover Dam began producing electricity and transmitting it to Los Angeles, California.
A 2,000-strong student protest against police brutality broke out in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Bruce Springsteen released his album 'Tunnel of Love.'
British Parliament met at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster during the Great Plague of London.
