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What Happened in November 1820

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Nov 3 Cuenca (Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca), Ecuador, declares independence

James Monroe

Nov 7 James Monroe re-elected US president

5th US President James Monroe

Nov 18 Antarctica sighted by US Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer
Nov 20 Whaling ship Essex attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific, only eight of the 20 crew men eventually survive (through cannibalism). Inspiration for the novel "Moby-Dick"

Famous Birthdays

Nov 4 Robert Vinkler Richardson, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Granville County, North Carolina (d. 1870)
Nov 9 Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1892)
Nov 23 Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
Nov 23 John Willis Ellis, American politician, Governor of North Carolina during US Civil War, born in Rowan County, North Carolina (d. 1861)

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Nov 28 German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, born in Barmen, Kingdom of Prussia

Friedrich Engels

Nov 28 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Enfield, North Carolina (d. 1862)

What Happened in 1820

Venus de Milo
April 8, 1820

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