Charles Robert Darwin was born in the town of Shrewsbury, England on February 12th 1809. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side. Both families were largely Unitarian, though the Wedgwoods were adopting Anglicanism. On November the 15th, 1809, when Charles was only nine months old, he was baptized in Saint Chad's Anglican Church, where his father was a member.
Chávez was the president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013.
Born into a working-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas
He became a military officer.
he founded the secretive Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s and worked to overthrowingthe Venezuelan political system
He was imprisoned and released from prison after two years, he founded a social democratic political party, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was elected president of Venezuela in 1998.
Allying himself strongly with the communist governments like: 1. governments of Fidel and then Raúl Castro in Cuba. 2. the socialist governments of Evo Morales in Bolivia. 3. Rafael Correa in Ecuador. 4. Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.
He supported Latin American and Caribbean cooperation and was instrumental in setting up the pan-regional Union of South American Nations, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, the Bank of the South, and the regional television network TeleSur.
However, Chavez had extensive disputes with Colombia, and supported rebels in Colombia and Ecuador.
Chávez was a highly controversial and divisive figure both at home and
abroad, having insulted other world leaders and compared U.S. president George W. Bush to a donkey, and called him the devil
His presidency was seen as a part of the socialist "pink tide" sweeping Latin America.
Chávez described his policies as anti-imperialist, being a prominent adversary of the United States' foreign policy as well as a vocal critic of U.S.-supported neoliberalism and laissez-faire capitalism
He was the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Through his socialist reforms in the country which were based on the Bolivarian Revolution, He managed to achieve many objectives: 1. He implemented a new constitution. 2. He also started a participatory democratic
councils. 3. He nationalized several key industries. 4. Hugo Chávez also increased
government funding of health care and education, 5. According
to government figures, Chávez managed to reduce poverty.
Chávez died in Caracas on 5 March 2013 at the age of 58 due to a cancer he had suffered from.
Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta,
Georgia. He was an excellent student and entered Morehouse College in
Atlanta, Georgia, when he was only 15 years old. He become a
national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.
As a civil rights activist, he was, very much like Mahathma Ghandhi, an advocate of nonviolent methods to fight for the advancement of civil rights in the USA.
A Baptist minister, Martin Luther King became a civil rights activist early in
his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott as direct consequent of Rosa Parks refusal to leave her seat for a
white passenger.
King's efforts led to the 1963
March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream"
speech. There, he expanded American values to include the vision of a
color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the
greatest orators in American history.
King received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1964 for his work to end racial segregation and racial
discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means.
King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.