Aug. 24 in history

... Department, slated to begin on Jan. 1, 1913. 1932: Amelia Earhart embarked on a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., making her the first woman to fly solo, nonstop, from coast to coast. 1959: Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram ...

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