On this date (March 3, 1887) Anne Sullivan arrived at the Keller's home in Alabama to work with their deaf and blind daughter, Helen. Through their work together, Helen Keller would go on to become one of the most influential people in history. Below is a video about Helen Keller from Biography.com or you can read the material here .

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland. While Alexander Graham Bell is associated with the invention of the telephone, many people are unaware that his father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a teacher of the deaf and believed to be the model for George Bernard Shaw's character of Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, which became the film "My Fair Lady." Alexander Graham Bell mother was deaf and he taught students at several schools for the deaf