From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 04/Sep/2018 - Part 1
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This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.
Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.
1. Stefanía Fernández
Stefanía Fernández is a Venezuelan TV host, model and former beauty pageant winner.
She won Miss Venezuela beauty contest in 2008 and went on to win Miss Universe title in 2009.
She earned a Guinness record for being crowned the Miss Universe title by a compatriot as the previous year's winner as well from Venezuela.
Being a Miss Universe, she traveled around the world and campaigned creating awareness about humanitarian issues and also promoted education on HIV/AIDS.
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
Dadabhai Naoroji was an Indian intellectual, educator and a politician who was the first Indian to be a British MP when he became Liberal Party member of parliament in UK house of commons between 1892 to 1895.
He was known as Grand Old Man of India and he is credited with co-founding the Indian National Congress.
He holds record for many firsts in India, as he was the first Indian to be a professor at Elphinstone college in Mumbai, was the first Indian to open an Indian company in Britain.
He served as a mentor to Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi and Gopal Krishna Gokhale as part of being the president of Indian National Congress.
3. Daniel Nestor
Daniel Nestor is a Canadian retired tennis professional who mainly participated in doubles and is a winner of 12 grand slam titles in doubles and mixed doubles.
He also holds a record for being the first doubles player to win 1000 matches.
His 12 grand slams include 8 doubles titles(4 French Open, 2 Wimbledon and one each of US Open and Australian Open) and 4 mixed doubles titles(3 Australian Open and a Wimbledon).
He was also part of Olympic gold medal winning doubles team in 2000 Sydney Olympics along with Sebastien Lareau.
He has been honoured with Order of Canada in 2010.
4. Andrew McCollum
Andrew McCollum is an American who holds masters degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education and is one of the co-founders of Facebook.
He works as an angel investor and after leaving Facebook in 2007, he co-founded JobSpice and in 2014 he was selected as CEO of Philo, an internet television company.
While studying his Bachelors at Harvard University, he got to know Mark Zuckerberg and that led to a team involving him, Zuckerberg and few other students to create Facebook.
As part of Facebook development team, he also got an opportunity to work on Wirehog, a file sharing program program.
5. Shane Gould
Shane Gould is an Australian former competition swimmer who won 5 medals in 1972 Munich Olympics including 3 gold medals.
She became the first swimmer (male or female) to win Olympic medals in 5 individual events and her medals included 3 gold medals(200 m freestyle, 400 m freestyle and 200 m medley) along with a silver in 800 m freestyle and a bronze in 100 m freestyle.
She didn't take further part n swimming after her appearance in 1972 Olympics citing the pressure because of her fame and media profile.
She was honoured with Best Sportswoman in the World, Australian Woman of the Year in 1972, Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981, Australian Sports Medal in 2001.
She has been inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1977 and Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985.
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Dear Sir thank you again for your cool and very important efforts.
Before reading this post I really don't know very much about The Great Old Man of the India.
Thank you, dear sir.
God bless you.
Dadabhai Naoroji has been among many firsts as we read and it's a brave act at that time itself in going to Britain and becoming a politician there.
His vision in building cotton trading company in England and he himself as a cotton trader are also commendable.
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