WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1820
Find out what all happened October to November 1820

Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. (9. October 1820)

Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.) (17. November 1820)

An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.) (20. November 1820)

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