Tech History for April 07
Date: 2025-04-07
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Events:
- 1927 – AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. , to New York City , displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).
- 1964 – IBM announces the System/360 .
- 1969 – The Internet 's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
- 1983 – During STS-6 , astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
- 2001 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.