12 Children Who Made History

In celebration of the International Children's Day, below are 12 children who made history for being child prodigies.

1. Kim Ung-Yong - Korean; attended Hanyang University from the age of 3 until he was 6; invited to America by NASA at the age of 7; earned his Ph.D in physics at Colorado State University at age 15; world's highest IQ and recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.
2. Gregory Smith - American; nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age 12; founder of International Youth Advocates which is an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world.
3. Akrit Jaswal - Indian; has been called "the world's smartest boy"; also known as the "Seven Year-Old Surgeon"; performed his first medical procedure at his family home in 2000; the youngest student ever accepted by an Indian University, Chandigarh College, at the age of seven.
4. Cleopatra Stratan - Moldovan-Romanian; a 3-year old singer who earns 1000€ per song; youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani.
5. Aelita Andre - Australian; the 2-year-old artist who showed her paintings in a famous Gallery, the Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne's Fitzroy.
6. Saul Aaron Kripke - Jewish American; invited to apply for a teaching post at Harvard while still in high school; awarded the Schock Prize, philosophy's equivalent of the Nobel; considered to be the world's greatest living philosopher.
7. Michael Kevin Kearney - American; earned his first degree at age 10 and became a reality show Millionaire in 2008 by winning $1,000,000 on the television game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
8. Fabiano Luigi Caruana - Italian-American; a chess prodigy who became the youngest Grandmaster at age 14 in 2007.
9. Willie Mosconi - American; nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards"; played professional Billiards at age 6; the juvenile straight pool champion and was regularly holding trick shot exhibitions at the tender age of eleven in 1924; still holds the officially recognized straight pool high run record of 526 consecutive balls.
10. Elaina Smith - British; youngest local radio adviser at Mercia FM in Coventry, West Midlands at aged 7.
11. Ainan Celeste Cawley – Malaysian; was just six years old when he gave a Science lecture about acid and alkaloids at a Singapore school; was only seven years old when he passed the Chemistry O level exam which is a test meant for teens aged 16 and up; enrolled in the Singapore Polytechnic and became the world’s youngest student ever to take up a third-year tertiary module.
12. Elise Tan Roberts – British; Mensa Master at the age of 2 by scoring 141 at the Stanford-Binet IQ test beating the record previously held by a three-year-old boy.

 A little background about today's celebration, International Children's Day.

• 1 June 1925 was proclaimed as the International Children's Day by the World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland.
• A major variant is the Universal Children's Day established in 20 November 1954 by the United Nations.
• On 22 November 1949, the Moscow congress on Women's International Democratic Federation established 1 June 1950 as the International Day for Protection of Children.
• The exact date of Children's Day varies in many places around the world.

Screenshot of Google's Doodle for Children's Day, doodle with blocks, a doll and other toys, with the blocks spelling out the word "Google."

References:

Child prodigy becomes youngest member of British Mensa aged just TWO… and he is already smarter than Barack Obama and David Cameron
The Top 10 Child Prodigies of Our Time
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