10 Amazing Coincidences From History
3. Mark Twain And Halley’s Comet
Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was born 30 November 1835. Halley’s Comet, which passes Earth every 75 years, also made an appearance in 1835.
74 years later Mark Twain gave a prediction. He said, “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’.”
On 20 April 1910, Halley’s Comet came by again. The following day Mark Twain died of a heart attack. It must have been written in the stars...