On July 1, 1993, the FCC began requiring all U.S. analog television receivers with screens 13 inches or larger to include built-in decoder circuitry that could display closed captioning.

Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College on June 28, 1904. . She became the first deafblind person to graduate from college with a B.A. Radcliffe was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a part of Harvard University.