Daily Archives for 11 January 2013


January 11: Amelia Earhart Flies Solo

On 11 January 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. Earhart took off from Wheeler Field in Honolulu Hawaii and landed in Oakland California the very next day. Earhart’s flight from Hawaii was one of her later projects before her disappearance in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean. In […]