President Donald Trump says he has ordered the government to declassify and release all records on missing aviator Amelia Earhart.

Library of Congress via CNNATCHISON, Kan. - Amelia Earhart was a trailblazing pilot and an OG girl-power icon who broke gender stereotypes along with aviation records. So on Amelia Earhart Day, which honors her birth on July 24, 1897, here's a look at the pioneering aviator's brief life and fascinating legacy. She almost had a medical careerDuring the first World War, Earhart worked as a Red Cross nurse's aide in Canada. In 1929 she joined other women aviators in forming The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Then there's the theory ignited by the 1970 book "Amelia Earhart Lives," by Joe Klaas, who argues the aviator never actually died in 1937 but served as a spy during World War II.