| On This Day in American History |
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On May 21, 1932, American Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Her original goal was to fly from Newfoundland to Paris in her single engine plane, partially emulating Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight from New York to Paris five years earlier, but bad weather forced her to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland. The aviation pioneer set many records, but five years after the transatlantic flight, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. Neither remains nor wreckage was ever found. |
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