97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

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This week, Scott revisits some of his favorite animal stories: the first-ever cat in space, and a carrier pigeon who saved 1,000 lives in World War II. Also: Thomas Edison invents the light bulb, an engineer solves an “impossible” task (through no fault of his own), and a French woman’s bedtime story becomes an international sensation.

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