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This week, Scott and Aaron remember several key moments and figures in the American Revolution – including the “Edenton Tea Party” of 1774, a public protest driven by women in North Carolina. Also: Thomas Edison invents a working light bulb; a 63-year-old woman goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel; and a physician crosses the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy (for a reason Aaron suspects might have been kinda specious).

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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