In 1915, Amelia graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago. She finished high school is 1916 Amelia Earhart moved back to Kansas with her dad After seeing 4 injured men on the streets, she decided she wanted to help people who came from war and became a nurses assistant at Spadina Military Hospital in Canada While being a nurses assistant, patients told her several stories about dangerous airplane fights. Her curiosity led her to the Toronto fair and she watched pilots do stunts with their airplanes. After that she signed up to learn more.

Amelia Earhart taught foreign students how to speak English at the Columbia University in New York. In 1924, Amelia’s parents divorced and she bought a car for her mom for her to move to Connecticut to live with Muriel, Amelia's sister. At age 34, she married George Putnam Somewhere in-between 1913 and 1915, Amelia entered her plane in the women’s air Derby. On May 20 and 21, 1932, when Amelia was the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she was awarded National Geographic Society’s gold metal form the president.

June 12, 1928: First women passenger to fly across the Atlantic. April 8, 1931: Altitude record for autogiros; 18,451 feet May 20-21, 1932: First women to fly across Atlantic solo August 24-25, 1932: Woman’s nonstop speed record 17 hours, 7 minutes

July 7-8, 1933: Women’s nonstop speed record (19 hours, 5 minutes) January 11-12, 1935: First solo from Honolulu to Oakland April 19-20, 1935: First solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City May 8, 1935: First to solo from Mexico City to Newark June-July, 1937: First to fly around the world at the equator (not completed)

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