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Born
Born July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas -
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Amelia Earhart
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Wright Brothers First Flight
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School
attended Ogontz School near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Nursing School
Red Cross Nurse -
Learning to Fly
Learning to fly in California, she took up aviation as a hobby, taking odd jobs to pay for her flying lessons -
Purchased her first plan.
In 1922, with the financial help of her sister, Muriel, and her mother, Amy Otis Earhart, she purchased her first airplane, a Kinner Airster. -
Social Worker
Amelia was employed as a social worker in Denison House, in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Flight over the Atlantic
First woman to cross the Atlanitc -
Married
In 1931, Amelia married George Putnam. -
Atlantic Flight
first woman to make a solo transatlantic flight in 1932 -
Designing Clothes
began designing her own line of clothes "for the woman who lives actively." -
Hawaii to the mainland
In 1935, Amelia became the first person to fly from Hawaii to the American mainland. -
Trip around the wrold
Started to Fly Around the World -
Vanished
On July 2, after completing nearly two-thirds of her historic flight -- over 22,000 miles -- Amelia vanished along with her navigator Frederick Noonan.
