Amelia Earhart Timeline

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 matriculated for medicine at Columbia University.
• 1920 - Joined her parents in Los Angeles and trained for aviation at Rogers Airport. After but ten hours instruction, she made her first solo flight. During this time she worked in a telephone office, worked in a photograph studio and did trucking to earn money for her flying expenses. Bought a second-hand plane.
• 1926 - Attended Harvard Law School. Took up social service work and was connected with Denison House in Boston. 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. Was invited to join Wilbur Stultz, pilot, and Louis Gordon, mechanic, in a flight across the Atlantic. Took off from the Jeffry Yacht Club moorings of East Boston on June 3. Flew to Newfoundland and took off from Trespassey, June 17, and 20 hours, 40 minutes later landed at Burry Point, Wales. Published 20 Hours and 40 Minutes.
• 1928 - July 3-Became a member of Boston Zonta Club, under classification of social worker.
• 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.
• 1930 - May-Became member of Zonta Club of New York City, this time under Aeronautical classification.
• 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. This flight was made from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to near Londonderry, Ireland. 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 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 on June 1. She flew south from Miami and landed at San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dutc h Guiana, Brazil; across the Atlant ic to the Red Sea, along the Arabian Coast to India; across India Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore, Java, Port Darwin, Australia, to Lae, New Guinea. From Lae she took off for Howland Island. The Coast-Guard cutter, Itasca, attempted 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.

The Atchison Globe, Sunday July 21, 1963