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Happy Birthday Amelia Earhart! The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, CA, she was born #onthisday in 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Image: Amelia Earhart airmail flight cover, 1963. Gift of the Pan Am Association. 2000.058.1156
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