One Year Ago Today - The 2004 Transit of Venus
I will never forget my first sight of that large black dot on the round red ball of the Sun as I kept glancing in my van's rearview mirror that morning wondering when it would be visible over the horizon as I drove to my planned viewing location.
http://www.transitofvenus.org/
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2004/index_vthome.htm
Only seven years and eleven months until the next one.