Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)

In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart
departed Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight
to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a
$10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first.

The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she
safely landed at Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.

On January 11, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became
the first person to receive an injection of the hormone insulin
for Type-1 diabetes—a disease that for millennia had been
considered a death sentence for anyone who developed it.

Canadian scientists Frederick Banting (right) and Charles
Best circa 1924, three years after they successfully isolated insulin for the first time.

Laboratory on the University of Toronto campus where
Banting and Best carried out some of their research on
insulin.