NOVEMBER 20
1910:The Mexican Revolution begins when Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, calling for the overthrow of the authoritarian presidency of Porfirio Diaz and the revival of democracy in Mexico. Madero will be elected president in 1911, but will be overthrown and killed two years later.
1910:The Mexican Revolution begins when Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, calling for the overthrow of the authoritarian presidency of Porfirio Diaz and the revival of democracy in Mexico. Madero will be elected president in 1911, but will be overthrown and killed two years later.
1820: The Nantucket whaling ship Essex is rammed and
sunk by a giant sperm whale 2,000 miles west of South America. The
unusual event will inspire Herman Melville's tale of Captain Ahab and
the great white whale, Moby Dick. The real-life crew of the Essex,
led by Capt. George Pollard, escape the doomed ship in three
whaleboats, yet have to resort to cannibalism on the open ocean. Eight
crew members survive for three months before being rescued.
1979: Robert Anderson performs the first transfusion of
artificial blood at the University of Minnesota Hospital, to a Jehovah's
Witness patient who refused human blood on religious grounds.
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