Martin Luther King Jr. He made his speech in 1963. He was a civil rights activist. He was buried on April 1968 from being shot.
Harvey Milk. Gay rights activist. Worked in a convienant store. He was in the navy.
Dorothy Hodgekins. Working deep in chemistry and biology. Working with crystallography, which is like taking an X-ray. She used this to find the structure to find penicillin. She physically saw it and structured it.
Gandhi. Born in British India. Born at 14. Moved to London to study Law. Famous for civil rights of Indians. Arranged a 240 mile march to protest the Salt Act.
Winston Churchill. Best known politicians in British History. Well known for his leadership. Refused to surrender in Germany.
Harriet Tubman. She was born in Maryland. She suffered violent as a kid. Her father was freed from slavery when he was 45. She escaped slavery and went to Philadelphia. Worked as a cook and nurse.
Florence Nightingale. Born in Italy in 1820. Youngest child of two. Ministered to the poor and ill in her neighborhood. At 16 she wanted to be a nurse. Known for Red Cross. Queen Elizabeth gave her 250,000 and founded a hospital and created a school for nurses.
Jane Goodall. Born in London on 1934. Went to study chimps. She's still alive and never had a pet till 47 and then got a cat. Awarded over 47 different awards. Went to Oxford University.
Bill Gates. Computer programmer at the age of 13 and made a tic tac toe game. He dropped out of school and then went on to follow his dreams. He made Microsoft and Windows. Most computer companies use Windows. He makes around 250 a second and could spend 7 million dollars a day until he's 90 and couldn't run out of money.
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