Pilot Beryl Markham

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Beryl Markham

Living place: Kenya

Birthday: 26-10-1902

Global rank: #58335

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Who is Pilot Beryl Markham?
Beryl Markham is a Kenyan-born British adventurer, author, horse trainer and pilot. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
On September 9, 1936 she made a flight from Abingdon, England, due to a fuel shortage she was forced to land at Baleine. Cove on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia in Canada with a 20-hour flight. Although the flight distance was shorter than the original goal of the flight, she also became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.
His historic flight. she was chronicled by her memoir, West with the Night, which was published in 1942. This book was later re-released in 1983.
The International Astronomical Union has named her after her. named a crater Markham on Venus.
 
 

Young / Before famous

When she was four years old, the whole family moved to Kenya. Her father bought a farm in Njoro near the Great Rift valley and he worked for Hugh Cholmondeley. Her mother did not like life in Kenya and moved back to England. Beryl Markham stayed with her father in Kenya. For a time she returned to England with her mother, but later returned to live in Kenya.
Life on the ranch brought her close to the horses, becoming the first woman as an adult. She holds a license to train horses in Kenya.
After many years living in the US, in 1952 she returned to live in Kenya with a very successful horse training business.

Family life info

Her father is Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck - a horse trainer, her mother is Clara Agnes (Alexander) Clutterbuck. She has an older brother named Richard Alexander "Dickie" Clutterbuck.
Beryl Markham has been married three times, her second husband's name is Markham - a rich man from Mansfield Markham. She had a son with her second husband named Gervase.

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When was Pilot Beryl Markham born?
Beryl Markham was born in 26-10-1902, death year is , at the age of 122.
Where is Pilot Beryl Markham's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Beryl Markham was born in England. Ms working and living in Nairobi - Kenya. Ms, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Beryl Markham's global rank is 58335 and whose rank is 38 in list of famous Pilot.
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Image of Beryl Markham - the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Image of Beryl Markham - the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

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Events in 1902 and 26-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Beryl Markham

  • Enrico Caruso makes his first gramophone recording.
  • Aswan Dam is completed in central Egypt, becoming the chief means of storing irrigation water for the Nile valley.
  • Cuba gains independence from Spain.

Birthday Beryl Markham (26-10) in history

  • Day 26-10 year 1774: The First Continental Congress adjourned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Day 26-10 year 1825: The Erie Canal, connecting Lake Erie to the Hudson River, opened.
  • Day 26-10 year 1881: Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday were involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
  • Day 26-10 year 1975: Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to pay an official visit to the United States.
  • Day 26-10 year 1979: South Korean president Park Chung Hee was killed by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Day 26-10 year 1994: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony attended by President Clinton.
  • Day 26-10 year 2002: Russian government forces stormed the Moscow theater held by Chechen rebels. More than 100 hostages were killed.
  • Day 26-10 year 2005: The Chicago White Sox sweep the Houston Astros to win their first World Series in 88 years.
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