On this day - 19 February

Bernie Sanders announced his intention to run for president on February 19 2019. This would be his second campaign for US presidency, having lost to Hillary Clinton who became the Democratic nomination for the 2016 election. He states his campaign is not solely an effort to defeat Donald Trump, but a bid to transform the country.

He went on to suspend his presidential campaign on April 8th 2020. Joe Biden would go on to take the Democratic nomination and later win the presidential election.

The Ten Tragic Days is the name given to a period during the Mexican revolution where a coup d'état overthrew the President. Francisco Ignacio Madero González was the President and General José Victoriano Huerta Márquez led the coup.

General Huerta had the goal of making the coup at least somewhat legitimate legally. He therefore knew that there were four people in line to take the Presidency should the President resign, including the vice-President, attorney general, foreign secretary and interior secretary. The President, vice-President and attorney general all resigned and the Presidency was passed to Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes, the foreign secretary. Pedro Lascuráin was President for around 45 minutes on February 19th 1913, long enough to appoint General Huerta interior secretary and therefore the next in line to the Presidency. He then resigned.