Today is Monday, April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Monday, April 7, the 98th day of 2008. There are 268 days left in the year. On this date in 1927, an audience in New York watches as the image as well as voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover are transmitted live from Washington in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

In 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. In 1939, Italy invades Albania, which is annexed less than a week later. In 1945, during World War II, American planes intercept and effectively destroy a Japanese fleet that was headed to Okinawa on a suicide mission. In 1957, shortly after midnight, the last of New York’s electric trolleys completes its final run from Queens to Manhattan. In 1966, the U.S. Navy recovers a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain. In 1978, President Carter announces he is deferring development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation weapon. In 1983, space shuttle astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson take the first U.S. space walk in almost a decade as they work in the open cargo bay of Challenger for nearly four hours.

April 7, 1983: Bit by bit, sections of city-owned fence along I-680 are disappearing. Police suspect the thieves may be selling the fence parts for scrap metal.

Dave Dravecky, former Boardman High pitching great, gives the San Diego Padres a 5-3 win over the San Francisco Giants, allowing his team to sweep the three-game season-opening series.

April 7, 1968: A peaceful noon march in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is staged by a group of about 200 youths from a South Side playground to the Mahoning County Courthouse.

James H. Grohl, former newspaper reporter and editor, is appointed to the staff of the Robert A. Sherman Agency to direct public relations activities for the Warren-based advertising agency’s industrial and commercial accounts.

April 7, 1958: Imre Horvath, 22, of 1146 Donation St., Youngstown, a Hungarian Freedom Fighter who arrived in Youngstown 15 months earlier, plummets to instant death when his parachute fails to open during a jump from 6,000 feet near Bird Airport. He had been a paratrooper in the Hungarian Army and was a veteran of more than 80 jumps.

More than 5,000 people fill the Rev. Rex Humbard’s spectacular $2.5 million Cathedral of Tomorrow in Cuyahoga Falls for the inaugural service. As a 100-voice choir sang “The Old Rugged Cross,” a 100-foot cross with 4,700 colored light bulbs came to life.

April 7, 1933: The Youngstown Federation of Women’s Clubs is co-operating in the second annual clean-up week to be conducted under the direction of the city engineering department.

Dr. Battelle McCarty, Warren district superintendent of the M.E. Church, says he has criticized Eleanore Roosevelt for her position on beer, but denies describing her as the most dangerous woman who has occupied the White House.