November 13, 1833 Leonid Meteor Shower

I've been reading Volume 1 of the Standard of Truth  published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  On page 193 it tells of the early Latter Day Saints observing a meteor shower.  "The stars seemed to cascade around them like a heavy summer rain.".  When the Prophet Joseph Smith observed the meteor shower he said.  "How marvelous are Thy works O Lord" as he remembered the New Testament prophecies about stars falling from the heavens before the Second Coming of the Lord. 

The most famous depiction of the 1833 actually produced in 1889 for the Adventist book Bible Readings for the Home Circle - the engraving is by Adolf Vollmy based upon an original painting by the Swiss artist Karl Jauslin, that is in turn based on a first-person account of the 1833 storm by a minister, Joseph Harvey Waggoner on his way from Florida to New Orleans. (photo and description taken from wikimedia commons)