Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, containing the town of Shaw. Formerly known as Crompton, the parish lies at the edge of the South Pennines, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Manchester. There is evidence of ancient British and Anglian activity in the area, and by the Middle Ages it was a small township, although lacking a lord's manor. Farming was the main industry with some hand-loom woollen weaving until textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution initiated rapid urbanisation. By the late 19th century Crompton had emerged as a densely populated mill town. Imports of foreign cotton led to a decline in textiles in the mid–20th century and the last mill closed in 1989. The borough is mainly suburban, with a population of 21,065 as of 2011. Of the 48 cotton mills, some very large, that have existed in the area, six now serve as home to large distribution companies, among them Yodel's Shaw National Distribution Centre.

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1018:

Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles captured and blinded Ibatzes of Bulgaria by means of a ruse, ending the last resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustathios_Daphnomeles

1941:

Corporal Josef Jakobs became the last person executed at the Tower of London, having been convicted of espionage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jakobs

1963:

President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_Glorieuses_%281963%29

1977:

The Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio received a strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal, which became known as the "Wow! signal" (printout pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

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neroli: More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara) used to make perfumes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/neroli

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It is the nature of human institutions to degenerate, to lose their vitality, and decay, and the first sign of decay is the loss of flexibility and oblivion of the essential spirit in which they were conceived. The spirit is permanent, the body changes; and a body which refuses to change must die. The spirit expresses itself in many ways while itself remaining essentially the same but the body must change to suit its changing environments if it wishes to live.   --Sri Aurobindo https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo