* August 28 – September 2 – The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights to be visible as far south as Cuba and knocks out telegraph communication.

On clear nights, the lights could be seen from over 60 miles away, visible in all of New York City and most of suburban Northern New Jersey and Long Island, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Westchester County, Orange County, New York and Rockland County, New York.

Kiruna is also frequently used as a place from which to see the Aurora Borealis ( Northern lights ).

The Northern lights observatory was founded in 1927.

It is home to the Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival, held every August, and the Festival of Northern Lights, a large Christmas lights festival with many displays along the Sydenham River, downtown, and in Harrison Park, held from November until January every Winter, as well as A Novel Marathon, a special event fund raiser for the Adult Literacy Program of the Owen Sound and North Grey Public Library.

Aurora ( astronomy ) | Northern lights over Banff

In 1891, Hammerfest became the first urban settlement in Northern Europe to get electrical street lights.

* August 28 – September 2-The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights aurora to be visible as far south as Cuba and knocks out telegraph communication.

The island has little light pollution and no street lights meaning that in winter the Northern Lights and the Milky Way are often visible.

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Aurora ( astronomy ) | Northern lights above Cascade Mountain

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* Nutts Corner was the site of the worst air disaster in Northern Ireland when on 5 January 1953 a British European Airways ( BEA ) Vickers Viking crashed after striking landing lights and then a building at the airfield, killing 27 people out of 35 on board.

The show was directed by Richard Glockner, a professor at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls who was assisted by Crystal G. Schneider ( the dramaturg ) and Christina Carr ( lights, stage design, costumes ).

Northern Norway is often described as the land of the midnight sun and the land of the northern lights.

: .... the author was a simple soldier, honest according to his lights but credulous and prejudiced and a strong admirer of Bohemond .... who hawked it round Northern France during his visit there in 1106.

Additional funding was allotted in yet another legislative bill for expenses such as salaries, lights, fuel, furniture and maintenance ; now everything was in place for the creation of Northern Normal and Industrial School.

The Stevenson dynasty built the majority of the Northern lights, in some exceptionally challenging locations.

His success with innovative reflectors on lights led him to search for new business by contacting the newly formed Northern Lighthouse Trust ( now Northern Lighthouse Board ).

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Two twelfth grade students from La Ronge, Northern Saskatchewan, won science fair gold medals for investigating and eventually duplicating the phenomenon, which they determined to be caused by the diffraction of distant vehicle lights.

His nephew Robert Louis described it as " the noblest of all extant deep-sea lights " and according to the Northern Lighthouse Board it is " asserted by some that Skerryvore is the world's most graceful lighthouse ".

The Kinnaird Castle ( one of The Nine Castles of Knuckle ), was built in 1570 by Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th laird of Philorth and sold to the Trustees of the Northern lights in 1787, who turned it into a lighthouse.

Based on the wing chord length ( the only measurement taken for the many of the less studied subspecies ), there is considerable variation across the races, with owls at higher altitudes and more Northern latitudes being the larger varieties.

Going on wing chord length, A. g. apache, found in Mexico to Arizona and New Mexico is the largest subspecies at an average of and is larger than more Northern subspecies in that continent, thus running contrary to Bergmann's rule.

Empty Coaching Stock ( non-passenger ) services have to reverse at Liverpool Central station, when going from Kirkdale Depot to Birkenhead North TMD and vice versa, making use of a single track chord known as the " Stock Interchange Line " linking Liverpool James Street station ( Wirral Line ) and Liverpool Central ( Northern Line ).

The Grand chord section is the lifeline of the country on which Coal, Steel and other important goods are moved from Eastern section to Western and Northern sections of the country.

I write about Northern liberals from considerable personal experience.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

The Iridescence | iridescent inside surface of a red abalone shell from Northern California.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

After some initial success in his efforts to take possession, Albert was driven from Saxony, and also from his Northern march by Henry, and compelled to take refuge in south Germany.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

Evidence from Tell Leilan in Northern Mesopotamia shows what may have happened.

* 1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.

* Ash ( band ), a rock band from Northern Ireland

Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September ( Northern Hemisphere ) or March ( Southern Hemisphere ) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.

There is a proposal to develop some of the roads running from the SW to the NE to create an all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia ( north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory to Winton, in Queensland.

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53 ° N to 66 ° N latitude and from 20 ° E to 26 ° E longitude.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

At a meeting to inaugurate the Northern Corridor Transit Coordination Authority ( NCTCA ), the governments of Uganda and Burundi backed the proposed new railway from the Ugandan western railhead at Kasese into the DRC.

Basque has no official standing in the Northern Basque Country of France and French citizens are barred from officially using Basque in a French court of law.

Bronski also remixed the track " Flowers in the Morning " by Northern Irish electronic band, Electrobronze in 2007, changing the style of the song from classical to Hi-NRG disco