The French abbé Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche made his way across Siberia in 1761 for the first transit, then perished in Baja California in 1769, after witnessing the second.
In May 2004, BART became the first transit system in the United States to offer cellular telephone communication to passengers of all major wireless carriers on its trains underground.
A first batch of 49 children were released by the Tamil Tigers and sent to the first transit home, in Kilinochchi, in early October, and six more were sent there in December, Unicef said.
In an attempt to observe the first transit of the pair, scientists and explorers from Britain, Austria and France traveled to destinations around the world, including Siberia, Norway, Newfoundland and Madagascar.
The buses, incidentally, were the first transit vehicles in Washington ever to be labeled with route numbers.
Even after the opening of the first transit home in October to help demobilized children reintegrate into society, the Tigers drafted more of them, Unicef said.
"We are the first transit agency in the United States to provide this early warning and intervention".
Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c are the first transiting planets detected in such an orbital configuration.
He proposed at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California during the second transit of Venus last June — the last one until 2117.
He stayed in the area to watch the second transit in 1769, only for cloud to obscure his view.
