🎂 Helen Keller is born (1880)
At a water pump, feeling the running water, Helen first understood the word 'water. '
Where: Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, USA
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📅 On This Day: June 27
June 27, 1880: Helen Keller is born. Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880 at Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama. An illness as a baby left her unable to see or hear, but her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her words by spelling them into her hand.
✨ More events on this day
- 1898 🧭 Joshua Slocum sailed back into port after more than three years, completing the first solo voyage around the world in his little boat Spray.
- 1924 🏛️ The Johor–Singapore Causeway opened after five years of building, a road and railway across the sea linking Singapore with Malaysia.
- 2013 🚀 NASA launched IRIS, a small space telescope that studies the thin layer between the Sun's surface and its hot outer atmosphere.
🧠 Question of the day
What was the first word Helen understood?
- Book
- Mother
- Water
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Answer: Water
🎂 Landmarks that opened on June 27
Questions
What happened on June 27?
June 27, 1880: Helen Keller is born. It happened in Ivy Green, Tuscumbia, USA.
Which landmarks opened on June 27?
Altino Arantes Building (Farol Santander) (inaugurated 1947).
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