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Helen Keller was born on this date as a healthy child to Captain Arthur H. and Kate Adams Keller in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
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Helen becomes very ill at the age of 19 months. The illness causes her to go blind and deaf.
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Helen meets Annie Sullivan, who will become her teacher. Annie breaks through Helen’s dark world by teaching her sign language at a water pump.
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Helen has mastered the Braille alphabet as well as the manual alphabet and even learned to use a typewriter! She begins classes at Horace Mann School for the Deaf in NYC.
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Helen attends Cambridge School for Young Ladies
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Helen graduates from Radcliff College at the age of 21. While there she writes her first book.
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Helen passes away. During her life she became an activist for change and the handicapped.
