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circa 1935: American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898 - 1937), the first woman to complete a solo transatlantic flight, waves as she emerges from the cockpit of a rotorcraft, Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1935:  American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898 - 1937), the first woman to complete a solo transatlantic flight, waves as she emerges from the cockpit of a rotorcraft, Newark, New Jersey.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)