** Northwest fiddling, with influences from both Ozark and Midwestern fiddle styles, though with a strong emphasis on competitive playing like Texas fiddling.

** Pacific Northwest Coast: Pacific Coast Athabaskan, Coast Salish

** Republic Airlines ( 1979-1986 ), a defunct airline purchased by Northwest Airlines that ceased operating in 1986

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** Winnipeg General Strike: Royal Northwest Mounted Police fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two.

** The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph ( 270 km / h ); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet ( 26 million m³ ) of timber is blown down, with $ 230 million U. S. in damages.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

** Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's Northwest Territories.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

** Northwest Ithaca

** Industry and Occupations Photographs An ongoing and expanding collection devoted to the workers in the Pacific Northwest from 1880s-1940s.

** hybrid dialect of Attic and certain Northwest Greek and Doric features

** 1, 000 watts covering Dyer County & Northwest Tennessee since 1959

** The Northwest Arkansas Times

** 560th Air National Guard Band of the Northwest

** Northern Northwest Coast linguistic area

** Chartered community: found in the Northwest Territories

** NA1401 Northwest Mexican coast mangroves

** Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

** Northwest Angle 33 First Nation ( population 454 )

** Northwest Angle 37 First Nation ( population 338 )

** U. S. states that ceded territorial claims in what would become the Northwest Territory:

** U. S. territories that encompassed land that was previously part of the Northwest Territory:

** U. S. states that encompass land that was once part of the Northwest Territory:

** Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, Nevada, reuniting the comedy team for the first ( and only ) time in over 20 years.

** Operation Julin is the last nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nevada Test Site.

** Jewett W. Adams, Governor of Nevada ( b. 1835 )

** Nevada is organized as a United States territory.

** A total eclipse is seen over parts of California and Nevada.

** Sequoiadendron giganteum, giant sequoia, found on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada of California

** Hawthorne Army Depot near Hawthorne, Nevada

** Newtown, Nevada County, California

** Sierra Nevada Northern Route: U. S. Route 50 Alternate northwestward to Wadsworth, Nevada, then Interstate 80 & old U. S. Route 40 westward over Donner Pass and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento.

** Sierra Nevada Southern Route: U. S. Route 50 westward around Lake Tahoe and over Echo Summit and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento.

** Nevada

** Nevada

** NA0527 Sierra Nevada forests

** BHP Nevada Railroad, a defunct Nevada railroad owned by the company

** Las Vegas, Nevada

** 12 October – House of Blues: Paradise, Nevada

** Southwestern Nevada volcanic field ( SWNVF )

** Konami Gaming, Inc. in Paradise, Nevada.

** The Black Rock Desert in Nevada, location of the Thrust2 and ThrustSSC landspeed record runs, and the annual home to the Burning Man festival.

** Groom Dry Lake in Nevada, location of Area 51.