2014 Event The U.S. Congress will as for $4.5 billion for additional missile defense spending over the next five years; the funds would partially pay for new radar in Alaska, indicating safety concerns regarding missiles from Iran and North Korea 2013 Event The LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 that went off the radar Friday is discovered in Namibia's Bwabwata National Park; all 33 passengers died in the crash 2013 Event Iran releases a new Qaher-313 combat jet which they claim can evade radar detection 1996 Death Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93 1992 Death Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88 1978 Event U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus 1973 Death Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81 1959 Event Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California 1959 Event 1st known radar contact is made with Venus 1948 Birthday Cesar Zuiderwijk, Dutch rock drummer, Golden Earring, Radar Love 1947 Event Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated 1946 Event 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed 1946 Event U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, New Jersey 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts 1938 Event 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 1935 Event Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR 1934 Event Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany 1934 Event Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany 1930 Event 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC 1903 Birthday Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot 1897 Birthday John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 1892 Birthday Robert A. Watson-Watt, England, physicist, radar 1884 Birthday Otto Bohm, born in Prussia, scientist, helped create England Radar
