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