Amelia Earhart

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  • Date of birth

    Date of birth

    Born in Atchison Kansas on July 24
  • Graduates from high school

    Graduates from high school

    She graduates from a public high school in Chicago, Illinois
  • Trains with the Red Cross

    Trains with the Red Cross

    She trains with the Red Cross as a volunteer nurse treating wounded World War 1 soldiers
  • The canary

    The canary

    Enrolls in university classes for a year in order to become a medical student, has her first airplane ride, and finds an interest in flying. She completes her flying lessons and buys her first plane, she  named The Canary.
  • Sets a new world record for the highest altitude reached

    Sets a new world record for the highest altitude reached

    Sets a new world record for a female pilot's altitude: 14,000 feet. She is one of the few women to receive and international pilot license
  • Historic flight across the Atlantic

    Historic flight across the Atlantic

    She flies with two pilots as a passenger on a historic flight across the Atlantic, she becomes a celebrity as a result of the flight, she published a book about it and makes solo flights across the United States
  • Places 3rd in a women’s flying race

    Places 3rd in a women’s flying race

    Buys a Lockheed Vega aircraft. Later, she sets a new female pilot speed record of 181 mph.
  • leader of an organization for women pilots.

    leader of an organization for women pilots.

    She becomes a leader for an organization for women pilots, she marries George Putnam and flies coast to coast in an early helicopter
  • First woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean

    First woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean

    She Makes historic flights, including the first solo flight across the Pacific Ocean by a woman.
  • Begins her famous flight

    Begins her famous flight

    She flew to Miami to continue her round-the-world flight, this time with Fred Noonan as her navigator.