{"id":4137,"date":"2026-04-16T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:29:15","slug":"harriet-quimby-became-the-first-woman-to-fly-solo-over-the-english-channel-in-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4137","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Quimby in 1912 Became the First Woman to Fly Solo over the English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12176\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12176\" class=\"wp-image-12176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Harriet-Quimby-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Harriet Quimby\" width=\"223\" height=\"167\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harriet Quimby<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Harriet Quimby in 1912 became the first woman to fly solo over the English Channel<\/strong>. She flew from Dover, England, to Harclat, France. She was welcomed as a hero in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Children could read more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/space\/americas-first-lady-of-the-air.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harriet Quimby<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Quimby in 1912 became the first woman to fly solo over the English Channel. She flew from Dover, England, to Harclat, France. She was welcomed as a hero in France, Great Britain, and the United States. Children could read more at:\u00a0Harriet Quimby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5367,5477,857,237,2580,408,2579,2581],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5367","tag-april-16","tag-dover","tag-england","tag-first-woman-to-fly-solo-over-english-channel","tag-france","tag-harriet-quimby","tag-to-harclat","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29344,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/29344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}