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Short Biography of Amelia Earhart
Date of Birth: Born on 24 July 1897
Place of Birth : Atchison, Kansas, USA
Parents: Father - Samuel "Edwin" Stanton
Earhart
Mother:
Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart
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1897 |
This timeline starts on 24
July 1897 when Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison,
Kansas, USA to Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart and
Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart. She was called by the
family pet name "Meeley". Her sister was born two
years later named Grace Muriel Earhart (1899 –
1998), nicknamed "Pidge". Amelia had an
unconventional upbringing - a real tomboy.
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Education: The Earhart sisters
were educated at home by their mother and a
governess until Amelia was 12 years old when she
attended the Hyde Park High School in Chicago,
Illinois
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1916 |
Graduates from Hyde Park High
School |
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1917 |
She visited her sister in
Toronto where she receives training from the Red
Cross and volunteers as a nurse during WW1 at the
Spadina Military Convalescent Hospital in Toronto,
Canada
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1918 |
The Spanish flu pandemic
reached Toronto and during her nursing duties Amelia
contracted the flu which resulted in a serious
condition called Chronic sinusitis and she suffered
from headaches all of her life
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1919 |
Amelia Earhart returns to
Northampton, Massachusetts for convalescence and
enrols the pre-med program of Columbia University,
New York
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1920 |
Leaves Columbia University and
returns to New York. Experiences her first flight
with Frank Hawks and became determined to take
flying lessons and learn to fly
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1921 |
Completes her flying lessons
with Neta Snook a pioneer female aviator who used a
"Canuck" for training. Amelia Eahart then purchases
her first aircraft - the Kinner Airster which she
nicknamed "The Canary."
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1922 |
Amelia Earhart sets a world
record for women's flying with an altitude record of
14,000 feet |
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1923 |
15 May 1923: Earhart became
the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license by the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI)
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1924 |
Amelia Earhart was
hospitalized for another sinus operation and due to
financial problems sells the Kinner Airster and buys
an automobile travelling across North America and
Canada
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1925 |
Works as a teacher, then as a
social worker in Boston, Massachusetts |
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1926 |
Amelia Earhart becomes a
member of the American Aeronautical Society's Boston
chapter and acted as a sales representative
for Kinner airplanes. She also wrote for local
newspapers and her fame spread as a female flyers
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1927 |
By this time Amelia Earhart
she had accumulated nearly 500 hours of solo flying.
She contacts Ruth Nichols about forming an
organization for female flyers
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1928 |
Publicist Capt. Hilton H.
Railey approaches Amelia Earhart to accompany pilot
Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon on
a flight across the Atlantic. She is recognized as
the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as
a passenger and the team are given a ticker-tape
parade in New York followed by a reception at the
White House with President Calvin Coolidge. Amelia
then purchases the Avro Avian Airplane
She became engaged to Samuel
Chapman but this was broken in November
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1929 |
Her fame and celebrity leads
to profitable promotions. She buys a single engine
Lockheed Vega aircraft and is placed third in the
Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland
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1930 |
July: Amelia Earhart sets the
women's world flying speed record of 181.18 mph
(July)
October: Obtains her air transport license
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1931 |
Elected president of the
Ninety-Nines (Women's Pilot Association) advancing
the cause of women in aviation
February: Marries George Putnam, who becomes
her manager.
June: Flew coast to coast in an autogyro
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1932 |
21 May: Amelia Earhart becomes
the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic,
taking 15 hours 18 minutes, flying a Lockheed Vega
5B. In August she then became the first woman to fly
non-stop across USA. She flew coast to coast, Los
Angeles to Newark, in 19 hours 5 minutes in a
Lockheed Vega 5B and broke the previous speed
record. She is awarded the Army Air Corps
Distinguished Flying Cross and the Gold Medal of the
National Geographic Society, presented by President
Hoover and also wins the Harmon Trophy as America's
Outstanding Airwoman
Her book The Fun of It is published
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1933 |
Competes in the National Air
Races in Los Angeles, California and breaks her own
North American transcontinental record with a flying
time of 17 hours, 7 minutes, 30 seconds
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1934 |
Wins the Harmon Trophy for the
third time |
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1935 |
January 12: First woman
to fly solo across the pacific taking 18 hours in a
Lockheed Vega. She is named America's Outstanding
Airwoman by Harmon Trophy committee
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1936 |
July: Purdue University
provide the money for a Lockheed twin-engine
airplane in which Amelia Earhart plans to make a
round-the-world flight
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1937 |
March : Begins her
round-the-world flight in Oakland, California
setting a record for east-west
(Oakland to Hawaii) travel in 15 hours and 47
minutes but the plane is damaged and needs repairs
June: Starts a second
round-the-world attempt from Miami, Florida. Fred
Noonan was her only crew member for the second
flight.
July 2, 1937: Leaves New Guinea and disappears near
Howland Island. Their last known position report was
near the Nukumanu Islands her last radio message
was:
"We must be
on you, but cannot see you, but gas is running low.
Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are
flying at 1,000 feet."
July 19: The official
search efforts ended
The circumstances of Amelia
Earhart's disappearance remain unresolved
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