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Great Achievements by Teenagers (view source)
Revision as of 22:51, November 28, 2015
, 22:51, November 28, 2015→Achievements, listed by age at which they were made: Young Tom Morris
* '''17''' - Private 1st Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, [[United States Marine Corps]], earned the [[Medal of Honor]] five days after his 17th birthday during the [[Iwo Jima]] battle in [[World War II]]; he was a Marine for ''three years''. [http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_living/ii_mc_lucas.html]
* '''17''' - Private 1st Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, [[United States Marine Corps]], earned the [[Medal of Honor]] five days after his 17th birthday during the [[Iwo Jima]] battle in [[World War II]]; he was a Marine for ''three years''. [http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_living/ii_mc_lucas.html]
* '''17''' - [[Mendelssohn]] composed his Octet, widely considered the best of its genre. He had already written 12 string symphonies by age 14.
* '''17''' - [[Mendelssohn]] composed his Octet, widely considered the best of its genre. He had already written 12 string symphonies by age 14.
* '''17''' - Young Tom Morris won the 1868 Open Championship, and remains the youngest ever winner of a major [[golf]] championship. He went on to win again in 1869, 1870 and 1872; effectively four consecutive victories as the Open was not contested in 1871.<ref>http://golf.about.com/od/progolftours/qt/youngmajorm.htm</ref> <ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0006/</ref> <ref>http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jul/18/young-tom-morris-open-golf</ref>
* '''17''' - [[Pele]] scored six goals in four games in the 1958 [[World Cup]], including perhaps the finest goal ever in the finals, leading [[Brazil]] to the championship.
* '''17''' - [[Pele]] scored six goals in four games in the 1958 [[World Cup]], including perhaps the finest goal ever in the finals, leading [[Brazil]] to the championship.
* '''17''' - [[Malala Yousafzai]] became the youngest ever recipient of a [[Nobel Prize]] in 2014. Her Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. Malala was barely 11 years old when she began championing girls' education in [[Pakistan]], writing a blog (Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl) which chronicled her hope to keep going to school and her fears for the future of the province of Swat. She was critically injured in a failed assassination attempt on Oct. 9, 2012, when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head. <ref>http://www.people.com/article/malala-yousafzai-wins-nobel-prize</ref><ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24379018</ref>
* '''17''' - [[Malala Yousafzai]] became the youngest ever recipient of a [[Nobel Prize]] in 2014. Her Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded with Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. Malala was barely 11 years old when she began championing girls' education in [[Pakistan]], writing a blog (Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl) which chronicled her hope to keep going to school and her fears for the future of the province of Swat. She was critically injured in a failed assassination attempt on Oct. 9, 2012, when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head. <ref>http://www.people.com/article/malala-yousafzai-wins-nobel-prize</ref><ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24379018</ref>