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 discusses a heroic (and unlucky) chimpanzee who went to space in 1961 – and coming the other way, a meteor that injured an Alabama woman in the 1950s. Also, Scott celebrates two trailblazing Black Americans: a 19th-century inventor who patented the biscuit cutter, and Rosa Parks, who took her seat (and her stand) in Montgomery this week in 1955.

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