June 17, 1928: Amelia Earhart Takes Off on Landmark Flight
On this day in 1928, Amelia Earhart began her transatlantic flight, the first by a woman. Earhart and her team left from Trepassey Harbor in Newfoundland and landed in Burry Port, Wales, nearly twenty one hours later. The landmark flight made headlines around the world.
When the crew returned to the United States, they were greeted with a parade in New York and enjoyed a reception at the White House with President Calvin Coolidge. This monumental flight made “Lady Lindy” the best known female flier and one of America’s first celebrities.
Three weeks before her 40th birthday, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean and her story became legend.
Flip through American Experience’s photo gallery of significant women in Flight in the 20th Century.
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A Geisha girl poses in her Kimono in Kyoto, June 1927.
Photograph by Franklin Price Knott, National Geographic
Grace changes us and change is painful.
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Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut to go into space, blasted off aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger 30 years ago, on June 18, 1983, as a mission specialist for Space Transportation System Mission 7 (STS-7).
Clear Lake Cottage by MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects
Photography is by Ben Rahn
He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
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