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Amelia Earhart's birthday.
Amelia was born on July 24th 1892. -
1932
She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California and to solo nonstop from California to Mexico. -
1935
She became the first woman to fly across the Pacific Ocean. -
1937
In 1937, she attempted with a copilot, Frederick J. Noonan, to fly around the world at the equator, but her plane was lost on the flight between New Guinea and Howland Island. -
1992
In 1992, a search party reported finding remnants of Earhart's plane on Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island), Kiribati, but their claims were disputed by people who had worked on Earhart's plane. Other artifacts that could be from Earhart's flight (but no clear evidence) have been found on Nikumaroro, and her fate remains a mystery.
