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 and Aaron discuss people who made history by fooling around – like Elvis Presley, born this week in 1935, or the Davidson College students who performed America’s first medical X-ray back in 1896. Also: the Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War, a British racing pioneer is born, and Andrew Jackson wins a decisive battle – two weeks after the end of the war.

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