BIG BOOK O' DAYS ~ 21 APRIL ~ MARK TWAIN

21 April 1910 was the day that Mark Twain died.

Born Samuel Langhorn Clemens, 30 November 1835 during the appearance of Halley's Comet.

Clemens worked as a river-boat pilot and this is where his pseudonym Mark Twain comes from. The call "mark twain" means the river was only two fathoms deep, the minimum depth for safe navigation.

Writing under the name of Mark Twain, Clemens was an accomplished author and satirist. Best known for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876), "The Prince And The Pauper" (1881), "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). As time progressed, the pseudonym took over.

Twain predicted his own death. A year before his death, Twain commented, "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it..."

Mark Twain died on 21 April 1910.

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