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On this day September 15-21 (week 38)
September 15, 2024 - September 21, 2024 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries on each day for the week. This week features the opening up of the Northwest Passage, the incorporation of General Motors, NASA's first Space Shuttle, Scotland's vote to remain part of the United Kingdom, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan, Italian film star Sophia Loren and the Boeing B-29 bomber.
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September 15, 2007: Melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean opened up the Northwest Passage, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia
September 16, 1908: General Motors (GM) was incorporated with $2,000 capital, and generated $12m in cash in 12 days. The image shows the GM building in New York in the 1940s
September 17, 1976: NASA unveiled the first Space Shuttle, named Enterprise after the fictional starship from Star Trek. The launch was witnessed by the cast from the hit TV show
September 18, 2014: Scotland voted in a referendum on independence, with 55 percent of the country’s 4.2 million voters opting to remain part of the United Kingdom
September 19, 2023: Azerbaijan recaptured the breakaway republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive that emptied the region of its ethnic Armenian population
September 20, 1934: Italian film star Sophia Loren was born. Her Best Actress Oscar, for the 1961 film Two Women, was the first won by any artist for a foreign-language performance
September 21, 1942: The Boeing B-29 bomber made its maiden flight. The plane, known as the Superfortress, carried out the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945