What is Amelia Earhart known for?
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American aviator, noted for her flights across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and her attempt to fly around the world. Earhart?s disappearance on her final flight near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean remains a mystery. II Early Years Print this section Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. She attended Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Columbia University in New York City, and various other schools. In 1917 and 1918, during World War I, she served in a nursing corps in Canada. Earhart learned to fly in 1921 in an open-cockpit plane in California. Her interest in aviation continued after she moved to Boston, where she took a job as a social worker. III Setting Records Print this section In 1928 Earhart was invited to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air, and in June she joined pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon in a trimotor Fokker plane nicknamed Friendship. The plane left Newfoundland on June 17 and reached Wal
