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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
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culture · American aviation pioneer (1897–1937) · aircraft pilot · memoirist · travel writer · journalist · women's rights activist · aviation writer · also Amelia Earhart, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Señora Lindy, El bebé del cielo, Señora George Putnam, Earhart
Born 24 July 1897 · Died 5 January 1939 · Q3355
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Amelia Earhart Disappears (1937)
Amelia Earhart First Female Aviator Flies Solo Across Pacific in 18 Hours, 1932
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2026· 7 entries
NPR: From cockpit to catwalk with aviation icon Amelia Earhart
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The Columbus Dispatch: Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937. New evidence could find her plane.
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The Independent: Could the Amelia Earhart mystery finally be solved? A new expedition could offer answers
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NBC News: Expedition to find Amelia Earhart’s plane will begin this year
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Popular Mechanics: A Restored Radio From 1937 Might Have Finally Located Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane
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Popular Mechanics: After 89 Years, the Clue Leading to Amelia Earhart’s Plane May Have Surfaced. It’s Been There the Whole Time.
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2025· 3 entries
President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered all government records concerning Earhart to be declassified and released
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Yahoo: American aviation icon Amelia Earhart in historic images
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The university opened a new Purdue University Airport terminal called Amelia Earhart Terminal
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: How explorers found Amelia Earhart's watery grave. Or did they?
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New York Post: Possible sonar breakthrough in Amelia Earhart mystery was nearly lost as adventurers investigated ‘date line’ theory: report
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Tony Romeo funded and coordinated an expedition around Howland Island to find Earhart's plane and did not find any evidence of it
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2019· 1 entry
Robert Ballard led an expedition around Nikumaroro Island to locate wreckage of Earhart's plane and did not find any evidence of it
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Bones found on the remote Pacific Island of Nikumaroro belong to famed aviator Amelia Earhart.” Unproven.
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2013· 1 entry
Flying magazine ranked Earhart No
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2009· 1 entry
Purdue erected a bronze statue of Earhart holding a propeller in front of the residence hall named after her
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
And 2006, David Jourdan extensively searched a 1,200-square-mile (3,100 km2) area north and west of Howland Island with deep-sea sonar devices
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2001· 1 entry
Another commemorative flight retraced the route Earhart flew in her August 1928 transcontinental record flight
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1997· 1 entry
On the 60th anniversary of Earhart's round-the-world flight, San Antonio businesswoman Linda Finch retraced the final flight path, flying a restored 1935 Lockheed Electra 10, the same make and model of aircraft as Earhar
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1993· 1 entry
“Amelia Earhart: The Price of Courage”
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1990· 1 entry
Donald Angwin, a veteran of the Australian Army's World War II New Britain campaign, reported that, in 1945, he had seen a wrecked aircraft in the jungle that may have been Earhart's Electra
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Ann Pellegreno flew a similar aircraft to Earhart's, a Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a round-the-world flight that followed Earhart's flight plan
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1964· 1 entry
Purdue University opened Earhart Hall in honor of her legacy and contribution to the university during her time as a career counselor for female students and technical advisor for the aeronautics department
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1942· 1 entry
A United States Liberty ship named SS Amelia Earhart was launched; it was wrecked in 1948
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1939· 3 entries
Died 1939-01-05.
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“I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly.”
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“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”
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1937· 3 entries
At 10:00 am local time (12:00 am GMT), Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae Airfield in the heavily loaded Electra
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Disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world
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Earhart and her crew set out on the first leg of her round-the-world flight, but they abandoned this attempt after a non-fatal crash that damaged the aircraft
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1936· 1 entry
Earhart started planning to fly around the world; if she succeeded, she would become the first woman to do so
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1935· 3 entries
Using her Lockheed Vega aircraft that she had named "old Bessie, the fire horse", Earhart flew solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City
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Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California
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Earhart joined Purdue University as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and as a technical advisor to its Department of Aeronautics
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1934· 1 entry
Earhart interceded on behalf of Isabel Ebel (who had helped Earhart in 1932) to be accepted as the first woman student of aeronautical engineering at New York University (NYU)
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1933· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Society of Woman Geographers (1933).
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1932· 2 entries
Became the first woman to make a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for her achievement
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On May 20, 1932, 34-year-old Earhart set off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, with a copy of the Telegraph-Journal, given to her by journalist Stuart Trueman to confirm the date of the flight
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1931· 2 entries
Earhart set a world altitude record of 18,415 feet (5,613 m) flying a Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyro she borrowed from the Beech-Nut Chewing Gum company
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In Putnam's mother's house in Noank, Connecticut, in what has been described as a marriage of convenience
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1930· 1 entry
Earhart became an official of the National Aeronautic Association, and in this role, she promoted the establishment of separate women's records and was instrumental in persuading the Fédération Aéronautique International
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1929· 5 entries
Said: "She was a born flier, with a delicate touch on the stick
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Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) appointed Earhart and Margaret Bartlett Thornton to promote air travel, particularly for women, and Earhart helped set up the Ludington Airline, the first regional shuttle service bet
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During the first Santa Monica-to-Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nicknamed the "Powder Puff Derby" by Will Rogers), which left Santa Monica, California, on August 18 and arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 26
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Following the Women's Air Derby, Earhart called a meeting of female pilots
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And sought out Earhart, proposing to her six times before she agreed to marry him
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1928· 3 entries
Were honoured with a ticker-tape parade along the Canyon of Heroes in New York City, a traditional celebration reserved for national heroes
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After three unsuccessful attempts to take off from the Jeffries Yacht Club in East Boston, the crew of Friendship made critical adjustments to reduce weight
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Was the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane
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1927· 2 entries
American heiress Amy Phipps Guest – daughter of philanthropist (and Andrew Carnegie's business partner) Henry Phipps Jr
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Flew the first official flight out of Dennison Airport
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1925· 1 entry
Earhart found employment first as a teacher, then as a social worker at Denison House, a Boston settlement house
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1924· 1 entry
Earhart drove her mother in "Yellow Peril" on a transcontinental trip from California with stops throughout the western United States and northward to Banff, Alberta, Canada
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1923· 1 entry
Earhart became the 16th woman in the United States to be issued a pilot's license (#6017) by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
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1922· 1 entry
Earhart flew the Airster to an altitude of 14,000 feet (4,300 m), setting a world record for female pilots
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1921· 1 entry
At Kinner Field on the west side of Long Beach Boulevard and Tweedy Road, now in the city of South Gate
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1920· 2 entries
Earhart and her father attended an "aerial meet" at Daugherty Field in Long Beach, California
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Studied at Columbia University (1919–1920).
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1918· 1 entry
When the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic reached Toronto, Earhart was engaged in nursing duties that included night shifts at Spadina Military Hospital
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1917· 1 entry
Earhart visited her sister in Toronto, Canada, where she saw wounded soldiers returning from World War I
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1916· 2 entries
Studied at Hyde Park Academy High School (1916).
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Studied at St. Paul Central High School (1915–1916).
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1915· 2 entries
After a long search, Edwin Earhart found work as a clerk at the Great Northern Railway in St
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But the current claims officer reconsidered his retirement and demanded his job back, leaving Edwin Earhart unemployed
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1909· 1 entry
When the family was reunited in Des Moines, the Earhart children were enrolled in public school for the first time and Amelia, 12, entered seventh grade
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1907· 1 entry
Edwin Earhart's job as a claims officer for the Rock Island Railroad led to a transfer to Des Moines, Iowa
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1904· 1 entry
With the help of her uncle, Amelia Earhart constructed a home-made ramp that was fashioned after a roller coaster she had seen on a trip to St
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1897· 2 entries
In Atchison, Kansas, the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" Earhart (née Otis; 1869–1962)
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Born 1897-07-24.
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