📅 Amelia Earhart flies the Atlantic alone (1932)
Where: Culmore, Northern Ireland
📅 On This Day: May 21
May 21, 1932: Amelia Earhart flies the Atlantic alone. On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart flew alone across the Atlantic and landed in a pasture near Culmore, Northern Ireland. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She flew for almost 15 hours through ice and strong winds.
✨ More events on this day
- 1904 🏅 FIFA, the organisation that runs world soccer and the World Cup, was founded in Paris by seven European countries.
- 1927 🧭 Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris in his plane Spirit of St. Louis, completing the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 2010 🚀 Japan launched IKAROS, a spacecraft with a huge, thin sail that became the first to travel between planets by catching the push of sunlight.
🧠 Question of the day
Where did Earhart land?
- A pasture in Northern Ireland
- An airport in Paris
- The deck of a ship
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Answer: A pasture in Northern Ireland
Questions
What happened on May 21?
May 21, 1932: Amelia Earhart flies the Atlantic alone. It happened in Culmore, Northern Ireland.
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