Person:Amelia Earhart (2)

     
Amelia Mary Earhart
m. 16 Oct 1895
  1. Amelia Mary Earhart1897 - Est 1937
  2. Grace Muriel Earhart1899 - 1998
m. 7 Feb 1931
Facts and Events
Name[1] Amelia Mary Earhart
Alt Name[1] Meeley Earhart
Alt Name[1] Millie Earhart
Gender Female
Birth[1] 24 Jul 1897 Atchison, Kansas, United States
Christening[2] 10 Oct 1897 Trinity Episcopal Church, Atchison, Atchison, Kansas, United States
Marriage 7 Feb 1931 Noank, New London, Connecticut, United States(at his mother's house)
to George Palmer Putnam
Death[1] Est 2 Jul 1937 Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, United States
Reference Number? Q3355?


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Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and writer. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

Born and raised in Atchison, Kansas, and later in Des Moines, Iowa, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to female students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. Known as one of the most inspirational American figures in aviation from the late 1920s throughout the 1930s, Earhart's legacy is often compared to the early aeronautical career of pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, as well as to figures like First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for their close friendship and lasting impact on the issue of women's causes from that period.

During an attempt at becoming the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. The two were last seen in Lae, New Guinea, on July 2, 1937, on the last land stop before Howland Island and one of their final legs of the flight. She presumably died in the Pacific during the circumnavigation, just three weeks prior to her fortieth birthday. Nearly one year and six months after she and Noonan disappeared, Earhart was officially declared dead. Investigations and significant public interest in their disappearance still continue over 80 years later.

Decades after her presumed death, Earhart was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1968 and the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973. She now has several commemorative memorials named in her honor around the United States, including an urban park, an airport, a residence hall, a museum, a research foundation, a bridge, a cargo ship, an earth-fill dam, four schools, a hotel, a playhouse, a library, multiple roads, and more. She also has a minor planet, planetary corona, and newly-discovered lunar crater named after her. She is ranked ninth on Flying's list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Amelia Earhart, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. Butler, Susan. East to the Dawn: the Life of Amelia Earhart. (Reading, Massachusetts, USA: Addison-Wesley, 1997).