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On this day, born Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain was born prematurely in Florida, Missouri to John Marshall and Jane Clemens.
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The family eventually moved to what would be known as the 'Mark Twain Boyhood Home' in Hannibal, Missouri.
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Poverty unfortunately stroke and forced the family to move out of Boyhood Home.
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This day would change Twain's family, marking the death of Judge Clemens, and the move back to Boyhood Home.
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Mark Twain apprenticed to Joseph Ament of the Missouri Courier Newspaper
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Twain became a fully licensed pilot. Also piloted on many steamboats.
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The pen name 'Mark Twain' was born when it was first used on "Enterprise".
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Published “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” in the November 18 issue of the New York Saturday Press.
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published.
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Married Olivia Langdon in Elmira.
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Son, Langdon, was born. Unfortunately died in infancy (2 years later).
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Daughter, Susy, was born.
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Daughter, Clara, was born.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published.
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Daughter, Jean, was born.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published.
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Received Master of Arts degree from Yale University.
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Visited sick mother in Keokuk , Iowa. Attended her funeral later on.
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Twain's publishing firm faces bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893.
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The Clemens family faces bankruptcy.
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Susy dies after contracting meningitis.
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Received honorary doctorate degree from Yale University.
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Olivia's illness puts her to rest.
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Travels to England to receive honorary doctorate degree from Oxford University.
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Daughter Olivia marries Ossip Gabrilowitsch at Stormfield.
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Twain's daughter, Jean, dies.
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As heart complications set in, Twain returned home to Stormfield where he died. Halley's Comet was in the sky again, as it was during his birth.