Amelia Earhart: July 24th to January 5, 1939

Once upon a time, in Atchison, Kansas, 1827, a girl was born. One who, unknown to even herself, would go on to set an example for women for generations to come. Even in her childhood,  she ignored the gender roles of the world, playing basketball over playing with dolls, collecting insects and frogs, & taking an interest in weapons.

After the death of her grandparents, the Earhart family found themselves struggling with money as well as her father’s developing a terrible alcohol addiction. Eventually her mother would receive her inheritance, restoring the family to financial stability.

After graduating high school, she was unsure what she wanted to do with her life. Attempting to pursue a higher education, she would soon drop out to serve as a Red Cross nurse’s aid in World War l. Following this she went thru several phases, from mechanics, medicine, to medical research.

Her life would start to find a sense of direction after she went on her first airplane ride in 1920 with her father at an air show in California. worked hard and with some help from her mother, she was able to pay for flying lessons. she bought her first plane, a Kinner Airster, that she nicknamed, "The Canary" and two years later she earned her pilot’s license.

Soon after getting her pilot's license she was already pushing boundaries & breaking records, setting a new altitude record for female pilots of 14,000 feet. Amelia became the first woman and second person overall to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Following her success, as a pilot, she would earn a number of alias by the people and the press alike, such as "Lady Lindy" for her resemblance to Charles Lindbergh, an aviator much like herself and even the reigning "Queen of the Air."