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Amelia was born on 24 July 1897.
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Raised in Atchison, Kansas, and then in Des Moines, Iowa
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During World War I she served as a nurse in a Canadian field hospital.
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Amelia studied at the University of Columbia, New York.
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In October 1922 she achieved her first altitude record, flying at 4267 metres.
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In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane.
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In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia made a non-stop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this achievement.
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In January 1935, she made a solo crossing between Honolulu (Hawaii) and Oakland (California).
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In 1937, Amelia Earhart announced that she would attempt to circumnavigate the globe using a different route than usual. They began the journey on 1 June 1937, flying from Miami (Florida) to South America, from there to Africa and then to the East Indies.
After completing 33,000 kilometres in 30 days, more than two-thirds of the journey, her plane disappeared in a storm on 2 July, on the penultimate leg of the trip, which was to take them from Lae (New Guinea) to Howland Island, off Australia. -
Disappeared on 2 July 1937 and declared dead on 5 January 1939, when her bones were found on the island of Nikumaroro.
