The Peking Man
On December 2nd, at 4:00 pm, in 1929, Wenzhong Pei found the oldest human fossil known to us "working in a 40-meter crevasse in frigid weather with a hammer in one hand and a candle in the other". They called it the Peking man, after the Romanized name of the city of Beijing.
Source: Durant, Will, The Story of Civilization, Vol. 1: Our Oriental Heritage New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954.
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Full disclosure, I may occasionally borrow a sentence from Will Durant's Story of Civilization. I absolutely love that collection!