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The title of the song appears to have been borrowed from the title of the 1934 book of the same name by Carl Carmer. [1] It refers to a spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower that had been observed in Alabama in November 1833, "the night the stars fell."
The Cutthroat Gap massacre occurred in 1833, "The Year the Stars Fell" in Oklahoma. [1] A group of Osage warriors charged into a Kiowa camp and brutally slaughtered the women, children and elderly there.
The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be among the most spectacular. Because of the storm of 1833 and the developments in scientific thought of the time (see for example the identification of Halley's Comet), the Leonids have had a major effect on the scientific study of meteors, which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena.
On November 15, 1833, Ward published an article in the Journal of Commerce entitled “The Falling Stars”. He stated that according to Matthew 24:29, [4] the meteor storm that had appeared two days before was a sign that Christ was returning soon.
Publishing this fall from Scholastic Press, and aimed at readers in grades 3-7, the book is a novelization of Anne Frank’s life before she went into hiding when the Nazis occupied the ...
[5] [6] [7] In the modern era, the first great meteor storm was the Leonids of November 1833. One estimate is a peak rate of over one hundred thousand meteors an hour, [ 8 ] but another, done as the storm abated, estimated more than two hundred thousand meteors during the 9 hours of the storm, [ 9 ] over the entire region of North America east ...
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November 12–13 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama. November 24 – Psi Upsilon is founded at Union College, becoming the fifth fraternity in the United States. December American Anti-Slavery Society founded in Philadelphia by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.