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Events on Sunday 5 January 1941 1
1903 – 1941Amy Johnson (1903-1941)Died 5 January 1941, aged 37Amy Johnson was an English aviator and the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, in 1930. She died after ditching in the Thames Estuary while flying for the Air Transport Auxiliary.