Recorded #OnThisDay 38 years ago:

The House of Love - Peel Session 1988

The complete session recorded by The House of Love on 2 August 1988 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 14 September 1988.

Tracklist:

1. The Hedonist (0:07)
2. Don't Turn Blue (3:12)
3. Safe (6:28)
4. Love In A Car (11:37)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-house-of-love-peel-session-1988.html

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JUNE 7, 1892: HOMER PLESSY ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING LOUISIANA’S SEPARATE CAR ACT

Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/homer-plessy-arrested/

I note, in passing, on this day, in history … The Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade begins, The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) and colonists opposing Algerian independence destroy about 500,000 books by arson, …

https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/june-7

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7 juin 1942 : Les forces aéronavales américaines remportent une victoire décisive contre les Japonais lors de la bataille de Midway.
Cette bataille renverse le cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le Pacifique.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_Midway

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📅 JUNE 7 📖
#OnThisDay in #history:

1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.

1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.

1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted royal assent by Charles I and becomes law.

1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.

1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.

1975 – Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.

*Events selected are not necessarily positive/happy/to-be-celebrated, but items I thought were historically interesting and/or significant to their time and I'm trying to select items from a broad range of history and not clumped too close together.