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1968 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87
1965 Marlee Matlin, Illinois, deaf actress, Children of Lesser God-Academy Award 1857 Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington D.C.) 1848 Caroline Ardelia Yale, U.S., educated deaf 1817 1st U.S. school for deaf (Hartford, Conn) 1817 1st American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut 1789 Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, (school for the deaf), dies at 77 1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Philadelphia, pioneer of educating the deaf 1786 John Goodricke, English deaf and dumb astronomer, dies at 21 1712 Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, French educator, school for the deaf |
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