Ron Howard celebrates a birthday today along with Tim Daly, Harry Belafonte, and Robert Conrad.
Day: March 1, 2008
What famous author’s birthday and date of death were marked by visits from Halley’s Comet?
Named after Edmond Halley, an English astronomer and mathematician, the comet is visible every 75 – 76 years. On Mark Twain’s birthday in 1835, Halley’s Comet made one of its periodic visits and returned in 1910, the year of his death.