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Mark Twain Was Born and Died in the Same Years That Halley’s Comet Flew By the Earth | Emily Upton

Monday, October 21, 2013 22:25
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Mark Twain Was Born and Died in the Same Years That Halley’s Comet Flew By the Earth

Mark Twain Was Born and Died in the Same Years That Halley’s Comet Flew By the Earth

Today I found out that Samuel Clemens was born and died during Halley’s comet years.

This is a somewhat uncommon occurrence given that Halley’s comet only passes by the Earth approximately every 76 years. What makes it even more remarkable is that Clemens predicted the year of his death.

In 1909, Clemens—known by his pen name, Mark Twain—said,

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.

 

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