HISTÓRIA
Hoje na História 15-21 Setembro (semana 38)
September 15, 2024 - September 21, 2024 - A infografia mostra aniversários para cada dia da semana. Este semana, refer a aberura da Passagem do Noroeste, a incorporação da General Motors, o primeiro Vaivém Espacial da NASA, o voto da Escócia para permanecer no Reino Unido, Nagorno-Karabakh e o Azerbaijão, a estrela de cinema italiana Sophia Loren e o bombardeiro Boeing B-29.
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