Mark Twain’s Mysterious Link to Halley’s Comet

Mark Twain was born exactly two weeks after the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835. Many years later, he was quoted as saying:

"I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

Twain died on April 21st, 1910, the day after the comet reappeared.

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