Today In History:  09 October  [1930]   --  First transcontinental flight by a woman

Laura Houghtaling Ingalls set the first record for a female pilot between Roosevelt Field and Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California in a time of 30 hours 25 minutes, in a de Havilland D.H. 60 Gipsy Moth.

Laura H. Ingalls was a distant cousin of "Little House on the Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was arrested in December 1941 and convicted of failing to register as a paid Nazi agent, and served 20 months in prison.
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