Modern Era · Oceania · Exploration
1937
Amelia Earhart vanishes
July 2, 1937
On the last leg of her attempt to fly around the world, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific trying to find tiny Howland Island. The US Navy searched for two weeks. No wreckage was definitively found. One of the century's most famous women had dissolved into the ocean at forty.
In context
Also in 1937 (5 other events on record)
- Japan invades China at Marco Polo Bridge · East Asia · War
- Rape of Nanjing · East Asia · War
- Guernica bombed · Europe · War
- Hindenburg burns at Lakehurst · North America · Disaster
- Golden Gate Bridge opens · North America · Technology
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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