Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. She wasn't the type of girl to be wearing dresses or playing dolls with other girls. She was the adventurous one and enjoyed climbing trees and shooting rats or other rodents with rifles-- different things that you could do at any age in early 1900s.
During World War I, she was a Red Cross nurse in Toronto, Canada and grew up watching the planes fly. After the war, she returned to the US and went to Columbia University in New York as a pre med student. She took her first plane ride in in California in December 1920 with a World War I pilot, Frank Hawks. About two months later, she started flying lessons with Neta Snook as her flight instructor. She, of course, had to pay for the lessons, so she worked as a filing clerk at the LA Telephone Company. After the lessons she bought her first plane and named it “ The Canary”. In December 1921, she passed her flight test, earning a National Aeronautics Association license. A few days later she went into her first flight exhibition in Pasadena, California.
Amelia Earhart set some aviation records: her first one was the first woman to ever fly solo above 14,000 feet! Shortly afterwards, she became the first woman to ever fly over the Atlantic Ocean. She left from Newfoundland, Canada and arrived the next day in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. When she came back to the US, Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross, which is a military decoration awarded for heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight. In doing so she was the first woman to ever get that award.
On June 1, 1937, Earhart was going to be the first pilot ever to ride around the world. This was her second attempt because the first attempt didn't go as planned. The plane was just didn't want to take off, but then she took off to be the first person to fly around the world. She took off from Oakland, California riding a twin engine, it would be her and Noonan, another good pilot of their time. The next stop she made was in Lae, New Guinea, and when she landed she would have flown 22,000 miles! She would still have 7,000 more miles left, but that is far.
After Earhart and Noonan departed from Lae, their next stop was at a Tiny Howland Island on July 2, 1937. That date was the last time she would ever be seen alive. She lost radio contact with the U.S coast guard and was running low on gas. In order to find Earhart and Noonan, President Roosevelt put on a two week search to find them, but on July 19 they were declared lost at sea. Shortly after, Earhart and Noonan were lost at sea, people have theories of what had happened to them. The big theory that has been going around is that the Japanese found them, brought them back to their base and executed them. Another one that is, in my opinion, a little more odd says that Earhart and Noonan served as spies for the Roosevelt association and when they returned to the U.S they got new identities, and it was as if they had never even been born.
That is the story of Amelia Earhart and Death Mystery. Until this day, no one knows exactly what happened to her on that flight.
Sources: http://www.history.com/topics/amelia-earhart