Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. She opposed traditional stereotypical gender roles since she was a kid. She played basketball and football. She also enjoyed catching frogs and bugs. Amelia went to Ogontz School located in Pennsylvania after graduating high school but then started working for Red Cross as nurse’s aid in Toronto, Canada during World War I. She moved back to the United States after the war and went to Columbia University located in New York to study medicine. Amelia and her father went to see the air show in California, and she rode a plane for the first time. She realized “this is what I have to do”. She begins flight training at the beginning of the year of 1921. Amelia worked really hard to pay for the training costs, and also got her own airplane and named “the Canvy”.
Amelia has many aviation records. In 1922, she converted the first female pilot to fly solo above 14,000 ft. ten years later, she became the first women to fly over the Atlantic Ocean by solo and was awarded for “heroism or remarkable accomplishment while engaging in an aerial flight”. She also became the first women to fly solo across the U.S. without any stops, and solo flight to the U.S. region from Hawaii. In addition, Amelia was the first administrator of the Ninety-Nines (global alignment) of licensed pilots, which now symbolizes female pilots from 44 nations.
On June 1, 1937, Amelia and her navigator took off from Miami to become the first woman to fly around the world. All the flight went well until July 2. They departed from Lae Papua New Guinea to get to Howland Island, which is located on the Pacific Ocean, yet they disappeared during the flight. The U.S. government called for 4 million dollars to search them, however, they still do not where they crashed. Many investigators are considering that they did not have enough fuel.