Mark Twain and Halley's Comet

Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910.

He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."

A bullet that reached its destiny years later

Henry Ziegland

1883

he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide.

The girl's brother

shot him

believing he had killed Ziegland

turned his gun on himself and took his own life

But Ziegland had not been killed

The bullet

had only grazed his face

lodged in a tree

Some years later

Ziegland decided to cut down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it

he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of

dynamite

The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him.