Updated at December 14, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Amelia Earhart |
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Birthdate | July 24, 1897 |
Birth Place | Atchison, KS |
Age (in 2024) | 127 Years Old |
Zodiac | Leo |
Occupation | Pilot |
Amelia Earhart is best known as Pilot who has born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, KS. Currently, Amelia Earhart is 127 years, 4 months and 21 days old. Amelia Earhart will celebrate 128th birthday on Thursday, 24th of July 2025. Below the countdown to Amelia Earhart upcoming birthday.
Legendary aviation pioneer who earned the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She also helped to form a group of female pilots known as The Ninety-Nines.
She grew up as a tomboy, frequently playing on trees and hunting animals such as rats. In her early 20s, she delivered medication and meals to wounded World War I soldiers at Spadina Military Hospital.
In 1935, She joined Purdue's aviation department. She was close friends with Eleanor Roosevelt during the 1930s. In June 1937, the plane she was flying disappeared over the Pacific Ocean and she was declared dead in absentia in January 1939.
She turned down six proposals before accepting George P. Putnam's hand in marriage. They married on February 7, 1931.
Hilary Swank portrayed her in the 2009 film Amelia.
Amelia Earhart is 127 years old today.
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, KS.
Amelia Earhart zodiac sign is Leo.
Amelia Earhart was best known as Pilot.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Amelia Earhart's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1977 | End of a four-day-long Libyan-Egyptian War. |
1980 | The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level. |
1982 | Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299. |
1983 | The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. |
1983 | George Brett playing for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident". |
1987 | US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker. |
1987 | Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak. |
1998 | Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. |
1999 | Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board. |
2001 | The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy. |
2009 | Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes at Mashhad International Airport, killing 16. |
2012 | Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Girkê Legê. |
2013 | A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers. |
2014 | Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers. The wreckage is later found in Mali. All 116 people onboard are killed. |
2019 | Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May. |
1987 | The birth of Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler |
1988 | The birth of Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and dancer |
1988 | The birth of Nichkhun, Thai-American singer-songwriter and actor |
1988 | The birth of Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Maurkice Pouncey, American football player |
1989 | The birth of Kim Tae-hwan, South Korean footballer |
1990 | The birth of Travis Mahoney, Australian swimmer |
1991 | The birth of Emily Bett Rickards, Canadian actress |
1992 | The birth of Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian skier |
1994 | The birth of Phillip Lindsay, American football player |
1995 | The birth of Valentine Holmes, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Kyle Kuzma, American basketball player |
1995 | The birth of Meisei Chikara, Japanese sumo wrestler |
1998 | The birth of Bindi Irwin, Australian conservationist, zookeeper, and actress |
2002 | The birth of Nicole Pircio, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast |
2012 | The death of Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish jurist and politician (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Fred Dretske, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932) |
2013 | The death of Virginia E. Johnson, American psychologist and sexologist (b. 1925) |
2013 | The death of Pius Langa, South African lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1939) |
2014 | The death of Ik-Hwan Bae, Korean-American violinist and educator (b. 1956) |
2014 | The death of Dale Schlueter, American basketball player (b. 1945) |
2014 | The death of Hans-Hermann Sprado, German journalist and author (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916) |
2015 | The death of Ingrid Sischy, South African-American journalist and critic (b. 1952) |
2016 | The death of Marni Nixon, American actress and singer (b. 1930) |
2017 | The death of Harshida Raval, Indian Gujarati playback singer |
2020 | The death of Regis Philbin, American actor and television host (b. 1931) |
2021 | The death of Dale Snodgrass, United States Naval Aviator and air show performer (b. 1949) |
2022 | The death of David Warner, English actor (b. 1941) |
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