BY:MARTHA BOWEN

HOME TO THE FIRST DEAF COMMUNITIES IN 1602.

SET UP FIRST DEAF PUBLIC SCHOOL IN FRANCE ALONE IN 1760.

WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF ASL, FOUNDED BY THOMAS GALLAUDET & LAUREN CLERE IN 1817.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN HELP FOUND GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY IN 1864.

FOUNDED IN 1864, IT'S THE ONLY DEAF UNIVERSITY. LOCATED IN WASHINGTON D.C.

THE FIRST DEAF&BLIND PERSON TO EARN A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN 1904.

INVENTED DEAF TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEAF FAMILY INFLUENCED HIM IN 1936.

LAW PASSED IN 1973 TO BAN DISCRIMINATION BASED ON DISABILITIES.

STARTED IN 1989 WHEN 6,000 PEOPLE MET AND CELEBRATED AT GALLAUDET.

A TERM FOR AN IMAGINARY PLANET FOR "PEOPLE OF THE EYE" CREATED IN 2012.