@thomasfuchs in Britain something like this would have been shown on "Newsround" for kids and "The Sky at Night" for adults, although I used to watch both and never saw an aurora featured on there (I guess there simply weren't that many geomagnetic storms since early 1980s!) Local and national newspapers were black and white here until 1990s (although it would be the sort of thing that appeared in the Sunday colour supplement, so you wouldn't have had to wait that long)