Helen Keller Photo Album
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Time line of Helen Kellers Life
1880 Born in
Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27.
1881 At the age
of 19 months lost sight and hearing as a result of meningitis.
1886 Recognized
by Alexander Graham Bell as being exceptionally bright.
1887 Began
instruction under Anne Sullivan.
1888-98 Learned to read and write in Braille.
1899 Mark Twain
recognized her great intellect and discouraged spirit despite her blindness and
deafness.
1900 Enrolled in
Radcliffe College as a regular student with the help of Sullivan.
1903 Published
her first book The Story of My Life.
1904 First
blind/deaf college graduate to graduate from Radcliff College.
1908 Published
The World I Live In
1915 Helen Keller
International (HKI) was founded.
1919 Met Charlie
Chaplin, the first in the entertainment world.
1924 Held many
lectures and tours in United States.
1925 Successfully
challenged Lions International, the world's largest fraternal organization.
1926 Helen Keller
met President Calvin Coolidge.
1927 Published My
Religion
1929 Published
Midstream: My later Life at 49.
1932 Braille is
accepted as the world's standard alphabet for the blind thanks to Royal
Institute for Blind in U.K.
1937 Established
a close friendship with Japanese people. Gave 97 lectures in 39 cities.
1938 Published
Helen Keller's Journal.
1941 Attended a
performance at the Opera House in New York where she experienced music through
vibration.
1943-46 Visited military hospitals calling it the crowning
experience of her life.
1946-57 After visiting 35 continents on behalf of the
handicapped, governments began schools for the blind and deaf.
1953 Met Winston
Churchill and Prime Minister Nehru of India.
Honored at the Sorbonne in Paris by the French government,
in a ceremony commemorating the birth of Louie Braille.
1954 Ivy Green,
Helen Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama is made a permanent Shrine.
1955 Won an Oscar
Award for documentary movie made on her life.
Published Teacher-Anne Sullivan
1956 First women
to receive an honorary degree from Harvard University.
1960 Met
President Eisenhower who became the first non-blind person to use talking books
during his recovery from a heartattack.
1961 The Miracle
Worker the story of Helen Keller's early instruction by Annie Sullivan debuted
on Broadway.
Met President John F. Kennedy the 10th and last she became
acquainted with.
1964 Suffered a
stroke and retired from public life.
Awarded the Presidential Medal of freedom by President
Lyndon Johnson.
1968 Died at the
age of 88.
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