<P> The 1910 visitation is also recorded as being the travelling companion of Hedley Churchward, the first known English Muslim to make the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca . However, his explanation of its scientific predictability did not meet with favour in the Holy City . </P> <P> The comet was also fertile ground for hoaxes . One that reached major newspapers claimed that the Sacred Followers, a supposed Oklahoma religious group, attempted to sacrifice a virgin to ward off the impending disaster, but were stopped by the police . </P> <P> American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet's perihelion . In his autobiography, published in 1909, he said, </P> <P> 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 .' </P>

Who was born when halley's comet was in the sky