Henry Ford   U.S.A. : Pioner in Automobiles Birth : 1863    Death : 1947 The credit of heralding the world into ‘car age’ goes to the famous American industrialist Henry Ford. In 1886, he produced his first car that consumed petrol as its fuel. This marked a revolutionary development in the industrial field. In 1903, he founded the Ford Motor. Company at Dearborn (Michigan). The automobile industry set up by. Ford...

Idi Amin   Uganda : Luxury – loving Despot Birth : 1925   Death: 2003 Dada Idi Amin is one of the most savage rulers that the world had ever seen. His eight years rule in Uganda, an East African country, is notorious for its inhuman acts and merciless killing of about 10,000 of innocent people: As per one estimate, about 4 lakh people lost their lives during Idi Amin’s rule which...

C V Raman  2 Best Essay on ” C.V. Raman” India: Nobel Laureate Physicist Birth:1888        Death: 1970 Dr.Chandra Shekhar Venkat Raman is one of the most distinguished scientists of the 20th century. His discovery known as the `Raman Effect’ made a very distinctive contribution to physics. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. He was the first Indian Scientist and also the first Asian...

Chiang Kai-Shek   Taiwan : Nationalist Leader and General Birth : 1846       Death : 1975 Chiang Kai-Shek was one of the most prominent nationalist leaders and politicians of his country. He was also an able military general who succeeded in unifying China by suppressing rebellions. He took part in the 1911 Chinese revolution and was the chief of staff to the great revolutionary leader and the first President of China....

Charles Darwin England : Father of ‘Evolutionism’ Birth : 1809                 Death : 1882 Charles Darwin propounded the revolutionary theory of Evolution in which he explained that different living species attained their present forms after a long and gradual process of evolution. Darwin maintained that man descended from ape regarding the origin of human species. Darwin reached these conclusions after years of hard and patient research. In December 1831, he got...

Lenin   Soviet Union : Founder of Communist Russia Birth : 1870       Death : 1924 Lenin was one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century. He founded the Soviet Union, one of the world’s two most powerful countries today. He organized the peasants and workers of Tsarist Russia for a Communist revolution and in 1917, overthrew the Tsarist regime in Russia. By the 1917 Russian revolution, Lenin gave practical...