nov 20, 1820 - An 80-tonsperm whaleattacks theEssex(awhalingship fromNantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novelMoby-Dickis in part inspired by this story.)

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