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Amelia Earhart was born at her grandparents home in Atchison, Kansas.
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Amelia signs up as a nurse's aide at Toronto's Spandina Military Convalescent Hospital.
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Begins flying lessons and buys her first airplane.
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Sets a womens altitude record of 14,000 feet.
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Amelia Earhart was the first women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger aboard the Friendship.
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Amelia marries publisher and promoter George Palmer Putnam.
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The first women to fly a autogiro, and sets a altitude record of 18,415 feet in the new aircraft.
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First women to fly SOLO across the Atlantic and fly across it twice.
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Is the first women to fly coast to coast, non-stop, in nineteen hours.
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First person to make a solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California.
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Joins Indiana's Purdue University as a career counselor for female students.
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First attempt to fly around the world is halted because of accident during take-off.
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After the airplane is repaired she starts her second attempt around the world, starting in Miami, Flordia.
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Amelia and navigator Fred Noonan disappear in the Pacific.
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Amelia Earhart is declared legally dead.
