History Matters: Always Fun To Do The Impossible
This week in history: Walt Disney is born, Rosa Parks takes a seat for justice, and a chimpanzee blazes a trail to space.
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Local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck to 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.
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History Matters: What The Cat Dragged In
This week in history marks the debut of two famous mice: Mickey Mouse in 1928, and the computer mouse in the late 1960s.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Flying Off In Your Stupid Biplane
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a pioneering woman aviator, the invention of the grocery cart, and the largest iceberg ever spotted.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: The Backboard Story
This week in history: James Naismith invents basketball, and a Depression-era program helps build a museum in Hillsborough.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Liberty Still Has a Pulse
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a mock funeral for “liberty” that Wilmingtonians staged in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: The Most Bravest, Gutsiest Bunch
This week in history: North Carolina women publicly stand up to Great Britain in 1774, in a boycott called the “Edenton Tea Party.”
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Fashion Maven of the Nineteenth Century
This week, Aaron and Scott remember Abraham Lincoln’s beard and the inventor of the yellow light at intersections.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet
This week in history: “The Jazz Singer” is released in theaters, the first-ever “talkie” movie with synchronized sound.
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