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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December 15 is Bill of Rights Day, marking the 232nd anniversary of their ratification – and Scott is celebrating with his annual bell-ringing ceremony in Hillsborough, inviting everyone to the historic courthouse that day at noon for 232 seconds of consecutive bell ringing. He brings a few bells into the studio this week to demonstrate!

And Scott and Aaron also discuss other notable events this week in history, much of which revolves around flight: the Montgolfier brothers’ pioneering balloon flight in 1782, and of course the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903.

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