Tonight we celebrate Amelia Earhart, First Lady of the Air, on the occasion of her 115th birthday…
Amelia Earhart, the most famous female aviator in history, was born on July 24, 1897, and disappeared without a trace in 1937 during an attempted global circumnavigation (the long way around, tracing a near-equatorial route)…
Earhart had already become the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic, and set a number of other firsts (not merely records for female fliers), making her a media darling and major celebrity.
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