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Harriett Quimby was born in Michigan in 1875.
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Her public life began in 1902.
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She also took flying lessons in 1911.She also was the first american woman to become a licensed pilot.
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She manuevered her 50 hp monoplane across the English Channel and was the first woman to do so.
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She died while she was flying over te English Chanell