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 remember a pair of memorable Atlantic crossings: Molly Brown’s “unsinkable” trip on the Titanic, and “Wrong-Way” Corrigan’s flight to Ireland (which was almost certainly intentional, no matter what he said after the fact). Also, reflections on Nelson Mandela, still a global inspiration whose birthday was this week in 1918.
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