" Colonists ", sent to the island to establish possession claims by the United States, built the Earhart Light — named after Amelia Earhart — as a day beacon or navigational landmark.

Image: Earhart Light. jpg | Earhart Light with post World War II repairs

Amelia Earhart was said to have flown here May 22, 1934.

In the early 20th century, the Lyric Opera featured opera tenor Enrico Caruso who appeared there with the Metropolitan Opera in a performance of Flotow's Martha, a boxing match between Joe Gans and Mike Sullivan, and the first public showing of electric cooking in Baltimore, as well as hosting speakers like Aimee Semple McPherson, Will Rogers, Richard Byrd, Clarence Darrow, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and William Jennings Bryan.

While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.

There is speculation that Amelia Earhart might have crash-landed her plane at Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Islands group during her 1937 attempt to fly around the world.

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** Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Earhart subsequently made her first attempt at competitive air racing in 1929 during the first Santa Monica-to-Cleveland Women's Air Derby ( later nicknamed the " Powder Puff Derby " by Will Rogers ).

After a flight lasting 14 hours, 56 minutes during which she contended with strong northerly winds, icy conditions and mechanical problems, Earhart landed in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland.

The flight resumed three days later from Luke Field with Earhart, Noonan and Manning on board and during the takeoff run, Earhart ground-looped.

Laurance F. Safford, USN, who was responsible for the interwar Mid Pacific Strategic Direction Finding Net, and the decoding of the Japanese PURPLE cipher messages for the attack on Pearl Harbor, began a lengthy analysis of the Earhart flight during the 1970s.

Purported photographs of Earhart during her captivity have been identified as either fraudulent or having been taken before her final flight.

Irene Bolam, who had been a banker in New York during the 1940s, denied being Earhart, filed a lawsuit requesting $ 1. 5 million in damages and submitted a lengthy affidavit in which she refuted the claims.

Earhart was a widely known international celebrity during her lifetime.

*, a United States Coast Guard cutter in commission from 1930 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1950, famous for her role during the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937

In 1937 Amelia Earhart began a flight around the world but vanished during it ; her remains, effects, and plane have never been found.

Known for his marriage to ( and being the widower of ) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in the United States during the 1930s.

The Electra is probably best known as the aircraft in which Amelia Earhart vanished during her attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.

The arrivals hall has recently been improved and tax free shopping, WHSmith and the Amelia Earhart Business lounge in the departure area are open during operational hours.

" Amelia " interweaves a story of a desert journey ( the " hejira within the hejira ") with the famous aviator Amelia Earhart who mysteriously vanished during a flight over the Pacific Ocean.

It was written and directed by Trey Stokes and stars Amy Earhart as Stacey ( aka Pink Five ), a fast-talking Valley Girl-type dropped into an X-Wing cockpit during the Battle of Yavin, and presents familiar events and story points from Episode IV from a very different point-of-view.

World War I had been raging and Earhart saw the returning wounded soldiers.

A World War II-era movie called Flight for Freedom ( 1943 ) starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray furthered a myth that Earhart was spying on the Japanese in the Pacific at the request of the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

The first successful construction that was built in any number ( 141 aircraft ) was the Vega, best known for its use to several first-and record setting flights by, among others, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post and George Hubert Wilkins.

Amelia Mary Earhart ( ; July 24, 1897 – disappeared 1937 ) was an American aviation pioneer and author.

Earhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of German American Samuel " Edwin " Stanton Earhart ( born March 28, 1867 ) and Amelia " Amy " Otis Earhart ( 1869 – 1962 ), was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis ( 1827 – 1912 ), a former federal judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town.

Earhart was named, according to family custom, after her two grandmothers ( Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton ).

From an early age Earhart, nicknamed " Meeley " ( sometimes " Millie ") was the ringleader while younger sister ( two years her junior ), Grace Muriel Earhart ( 1899 – 1998 ), nicknamed " Pidge ," acted the dutiful follower.

Their upbringing was unconventional since Amy Earhart did not believe in molding her children into " nice little girls.

" Meanwhile their maternal grandmother disapproved of the " bloomers " worn by Amy's children and although Earhart liked the freedom they provided, she was aware other girls in the neighborhood did not wear them.

Although this love of the outdoors and " rough-and-tumble " play was common to many youngsters, some biographers have characterized the young Earhart as a tomboy.

One look at the rickety old " flivver " was enough for Earhart, who promptly asked if they could go back to the merry-go-round.

In 1909, when the family was finally reunited in Des Moines, the Earhart children were enrolled in public school for the first time with Amelia Earhart entering the seventh grade at the age of 12 years.

The Otis house, and all of its contents, was auctioned ; Earhart was heartbroken and later described it as the end of her childhood.

When the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic reached Toronto, Earhart was engaged in arduous nursing duties including night shifts at the Spadina Military Hospital.

" Simultaneously, Earhart experienced an exacerbation of her old sinus problem as her pain worsened and in early 1924, she was hospitalized for another sinus operation, which was again unsuccessful.

When Earhart lived in Medford, she maintained her interest in aviation, becoming a member of the American Aeronautical Society's Boston chapter and was eventually elected its vice president.

Consequently, with no immediate prospects for recouping her investment in flying, Earhart sold the " Canary " as well as a second Kinner and bought a yellow Kissel " Speedster " two-passenger automobile, which she named the " Yellow Peril.

A dam named for Amelia Earhart, was built in 1966.

Most streets in the community are named after notable historical personalities such as Earhart Lane for Amelia Earhart, Einstein Loop for Albert Einstein, Casals Place for Pablo Casals and Dreiser Loop for Theodore Dreiser.

Fifth College was officially named Eleanor Roosevelt College in a dedication ceremony on January 26, 1995, beating out over sixty other suggestions including Amelia Earhart, Cesar Chavez, and Marie Curie, making it the first UCSD college to be named after a woman and the only college in the United States to be named for Eleanor Roosevelt.