Today In History For April 7th

Today is Thursday, April 7, the 97th day of 2011. There are 268 days left in the year.

In 1927, the image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter announced he was deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon.

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286 million-mile journey to the Red Planet.