Friday, August 24, 2007&&
Chronology of Amelia Earhart - 1897 - Born Atchison, Kansas, July 24.
- 1915 - Graduated from Hyde Park High School Chicago.
- 1916 - Studied at Ogontz School at Philadelphia.
- 1918 - Worked as a Nurses' Aide under the Canadian Red Cross.
- 1919 - Went to New York and was enrolled for medicine at Columbia University.
- 1920 - Joined her parents in Los Angeles and trained for the development and use of an aircraft at Rogers Airport. After ten hours of instruction, she made her first solo flight.
- 1926 - Attended Harvard Law School. Took up social service work and was connected with Denison House in Boston. She was later elected to the board of directors.
- 1928 - Was one of the five incorporators of Denison Aircraft Corporation that established a commercial airport at Squantum. She was invited to join Wilbur Stultz, pilot, and Louis Gordon, mechanic, in a flight across the Atlantic.
- 1929 - Became vice president of the New York, Philadelphia and Washington Airways Corporation and president of the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association.
- 1930 - Aviation Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
- 1931 - Married Publisher George Palmer Putnam on February 7. Published The Fun of It.
- 1932 - Flew alone across the Atlantic May 20-21, the first woman to do so, in 13 hours, 30 minutes--a new trans-Atlantic record. For this achievement she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France; was the first woman to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, and received the gold medal of the National Geographic Society. Made her first autogiro flight, and later made the record altitude flight in this plane.
- 1935 - In January, she became the first woman to fly from Hawaii to Oakland. In May, she flew non-stop from Mexico City to New York City in fourteen hours, nineteen minutes.
- 1936 - Became a traveling faculty member and aeronautics and career advisor at Purdue University.
- 1937 - In March, accompanied by Fred Noonan, navigator, she started on a flight around the world. Flew from California to Hawaii but crashed at Honolulu as she was taking off on a second leg of the trip. Returning to the United States, she prepared for another attempt in June 1. She flew south from Miami and went to many other places. The Coast-Guard cutter, Itasca, attempted to establish radio contact with her plane, but because of a difference of frequencies the Itasca radioman was unable to give her bearing. The greatest search party in flight history was sent out, but no trace was ever found of the plane or fliers.
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Chronology of Amelia Earhart 