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Amelia Earhart
1897 - 1939
Birth place
Atchison, United Stat..
Death place
Tarawa, Kiribati
Queen of the Air, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to make a non-stop transatlantic flight (1932), first transoceanic flight from Honolulu to Oakland, California (1935), disappeared in the Electra while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. In her last transmission Earhart broadcast: 'We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. Wait.' Crashed. Missing July 2, 1937, declared legally dead January 5, 1939. Location unknown.
Buried by stargirl on January 5, 2011
