Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester,
England. The population was 45,198 at the 2011 census. Historically in
Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills
of the Pennines, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) east of Manchester. "Ashton",
deriving from Old English for "settlement by ash trees", probably dates
from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the Middle Ages, Ashton-under-Lyne was a
parish and township and Ashton Old Hall was held by the de Asshetons,
lords of the manor. Granted a Royal Charter in 1414, the manor spanned a
rural area of marshland, moorland, villages and hamlets. By the mid-
19th century Ashton had emerged as an important mill town at a
convergence of newly constructed canals and railways. The transport
network allowed for an economic boom in cotton spinning, weaving, and
coal mining, which led to the granting of municipal borough status in
1847. (Full article...).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-under-Lyne>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1683:
Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first
university museum, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum>
1913:
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest
Augustus of Hanover, one of the last great social events of European
royalty before World War I began fourteen months later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia>
1948:
Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian
forces finally captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the
defenders had abandoned it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yad_Mordechai>
1982:
The port city of Khorramshahr was liberated by Iranian forces
during the Iran–Iraq War after 575 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Khorramshahr>
2006:
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been
credited for raising international public awareness of climate change
and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
consilience:
1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different
data sets. [from mid 19th c.]
2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring
to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most
interesting game in the world — making the most of one's best.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick>