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World Constitutional Convention call signatories
- TanzaniaA 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool sits on display at the British Museum, recovered from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
- Clement AttleeClement Richard Attlee was born on the 3rd of January 1883 in Putney, Surrey. He grew up in a two-storey villa with a large garden and tennis court.
- SenegalIn 1444, the Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias stepped onto Gorée Island, marking the first European contact with what is now Senegal.
- PakistanIn the Soan Valley of northern Pakistan, stone tools dating to approximately 2 million years ago mark some of the earliest human activity in South Asia.
- Max BornMax Born entered the University of Göttingen in April 1904, stepping into a world dominated by three renowned mathematicians.
- Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was born on the 3rd of February 1932 in Kingston, Colony of Jamaica. He entered a middle-class family where his father Herman…
- William BeveridgeWilliam Henry Beveridge entered the world on the 5th of March 1879 in Rangpur, India. His father served as an Indian Civil Service officer and District Judge…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901, in Portland, Oregon. His father Herman Henry William Pauling worked as a traveling salesman for the…