Today is Thursday, April 7, the 98th day of 2016. There are 268 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Media commentator Hodding Carter III is 81. California Governor Jerry Brown is 78. Director Francis Ford Coppola is 77. Singer John Oates is 68. Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is 67. Singer Janis Ian is 65. Actor Jackie Chan is 62. Football Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett is 62. Actor Russell Crowe is 52.

In 1862, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

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 1966, the US Navy recovered a hydrogen bomb that the Air Force had lost in the Mediterranean Sea in a B-52 crash.

In 1984, the Census Bureau reported Los Angeles had overtaken Chicago as the nation’s ‘‘second city’’ in terms of population.

In 1994, civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; in the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu moderates were slaughtered by Hutu extremists.

In 2006, a suicide attack in a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad killed 85 people.

Last year, President Obama announced commitments from Google, Microsoft, and others to help the nation’s health system prepare for a warmer, more erratic climate.