Amelia Earhart contributed much to the science of aviation

Earhart, born in Kansas in 1898, was the first American woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. This 1932 event took less than 16 hours. On a round the world fight in 1937, her plane was lost in the Pacific. The three nations issuing Earhart commemoratives are the US, Mali, and Surinam.
In 1989 in, Atchison, Kansas a girl was born and given the name Amelia Earhart. In later years this girl was destined to become one of the most prominent women [...]