Find Records That Have Most Current Date?

I have two tables

table_1
--Emp_id--|--Sup_id--|Sup_name|--Date--|
-------------------------------------------------
--00001--|--00005 --|---ABCD--|01-MARCH-2004
--00002--|--00006 --|---BCDE--|02-MARCH-2004
--00003--|--00007 --|---CDEF--|03-MARCH-2004
--00001--|--00008 --|---DEFG--|04-APRIL-2004
--00003--|--00009 --|---EFGH--|05-APRIL-2004

table_2
--Emp_id--|Emp_name|
--------------------------------
--00001--|--QWER--|
--00002--|--ASDF--|
--00003--|--ZXCV--|
--00004--|--POIU--|

table_1 contain records on employee and the supervisor they are under at a certain date.

As some employee(00001 & 00003) have a different supervisor from different date, I'll like to extract from table_1 the record of each employee in the table that only contain the supervisor info on the most recent date.And from table_2, i'll like to extract the employee's name. These records extracted from both the tables would the be put into a new table,table_3

Example: For employee 00001, only extract record that have the most recent date which is 04-APRIL-2004 and not on 01-MARCH-2004

table_3
Emp_id|Emp_name|Sup_id|Sup_name|Date|
------------------------------------------------
00001 |--QWER--|00008 |--DEFG---|04-APRIL-2004
00002 |--ASDF-- |00006 |--BCDE---|02-MARCH-2004
00003 |--ZXCV-- |00009 |--EFGH---|05-APRIL-2004

How to write an SQL statement to perform this?