Library for Deaf Action's Deaf Culture Calendar

Laurent Clerc - Born December 26, 1785, in La Balme, France. Died July 18, 1869. Last home address site: Hartford, CT.First deaf teacher in America and a role mentor of […]

Louis Braille - Born January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France. Died January 6, 1852; last home address site: Paris.Inventor of braille in 1824 This world-wide reading system uses different formations […]

Frederick C. Schreiber - Born February 1, 1922, in Brooklyn, NY. Died September 5, 1979; Last home address site: Kensington, MD.Writer, editor, activist, and well known for his powerful and […]

Laura Redden Searing - Born February 9, 1840, in Somerset County, MD. Died August 10, 1923; Last home address site: San Mateo, CANewspaper correspondent who once interviewed President Lincoln, Civil […]

Thomas Alva Edison - Born February 11, 1847, in Milan, OH. Died October 18, 1931; Last home address site: Orange, NJ.Inventor and scientist who received 1,093 patents and who said […]

February 16, 1857 -- Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, known as Kendall School, opens. Founded by Amos Kendall Now a part of […]

Thomas Brown - Born February 25, 1804, in Henniker, NH; also his last home address site. Died March 23, 1886. First deaf American grassroots leader and a NAD seed planter […]

Edwin Allan Hodgson - Born February 28, 1854, in Manchester, England. Died August 13, 1933; last home address site: New York City.Second president and one of the three co-founders of […]

Deaf History MonthMarch 13-April 15, since 1997 To commemorate the three most important deaf cultural dates in American historyMarch 13, 1988: The victory of the Deaf President Now movement at […]

Sophia Fowler Gallaudet - Born March 20, 1798, in Guilford, CT. Died May 13, 1877; her last home address site: Hartford, CT.Influential advocate to the US Congress on behalf of […]

David Peikoff - Born March 21, 1900, in Yanoschina, Polava Province, Russia. Died January 28, 1995; last home address site: Greenbelt, MD.Dynamic leader who was known to hold the office […]

April 8, 1864 -- Charter signed by United States President Abraham Lincoln authorizing the Board of Directors of Gallaudet University to grant college degrees to deaf students. Dr. Edward Miner […]