On This Day: The First U.S. Female to Earn a Pilot’s License
On August 1, 1911, an accomplished journalist and film screenwriter became the first female in America to receive a pilot’s certificate. Harriet Quimby was born in May of 1875 to a poor farm family in Coldwater, Michigan. Growing up, her mother encouraged her to believe she could succeed in any almost any endeavor she dreamed…









