22. Helen Keller
- Born on June 27,1880
- lost vision and hearing at 19 months
- began teaching by Anne Sullivan
- Learned to read and write Braille
- Enrolled in Radcliffe college with the help of Anne
- Became the first blind/deaf person to graduate from Radcliffe
- Helen Keller international was founded
- held many lectures in the United States
- successfully challenged lions international
- Braille is accepted as the worlds standard alphabet
- gave 97 lectures in Japan
- attended a performance at the opera house
- visited military hospitals
- traveled to 35 different continents
- won an Oscar award for a movie on her life
- became the first women to get a honorary award from Harvard university
- the miracle worker came out on broadway
- was awarded the presidential medal of honer award
- died at the age of 88