2014 Event The Bharatiya Janata Party wins India's general election, defeating the Indian National Congress; the results appear to signal a desire for greater economic progress 2012 Event The U.S. State Department states the U.N. Secretary-General's decision to attend the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement summit is 'strange' and 'not a good signal' 1976 Event Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity 1966 Event Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colorado 1966 Event Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland 1962 Event MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA 1959 Event Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles) 1958 Event 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip 1951 Event Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system 1941 Event Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet 1941 Event British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro 1940 Event FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal 1933 Event Karl Jansky reports reception of cosmic radio signal in Washington D.C. 1923 Event Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal 1914 Event U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 1907 Event For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year 1907 Event Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1906 Event SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy 1904 Event Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st International radio distress signal 1901 Event Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US 1901 Event Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld 1890 Event 1st signal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation 1885 Event General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum
