Recorded #OnThisDay 45 years ago:

The Bodysnatchers - Peel Session 1980

The complete session recorded by The Bodysnatchers on 8 April 1980 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 14th of that month.

Tracklist:

1. What's This? (0:27)
2. Happy Time Tune (2:29)
3. The Boiler (7:05)
4. The Ghost of the Vox Continental (11:16)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-bodysnatchers-peel-session-1980.html

#OtD 8 Apr 1950 anti-fascist guerrilla Josep Lluis Facerias aka 'Face', blew up the Lonja police station in Barcelona, Spain. He was part of the militant underground resistance to the right-wing dictatorship of General Franco https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10763/facerias-blows-up-police-station

#OtD 8 Apr 1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs into the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly in protest at two repressive bills. Though the bombs were thrown away from people to avoid injury, both were sentenced to life imprisonment https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10762/delhi-legislative-assembly-bombing

#OtD 8 Apr 1877 French teacher and communist Jeanne Labourbe was born. Moving to Russia, she took part in the 1917 revolution and helped organise the mutiny of the French Black Sea fleet, for which she was shot by counterrevolutionaries https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10761/jeanne-marie-labourbe-born

George Russell (Æ) was born #OTD 1867. In his reply to Josephine McNeill's letter about salesmanship and selling techniques, he promises to write a piece for The Irish Statesman on the matter. He comments: ‘I have noticed this absence of salesmanship and it is engaging the attention of a friend of mine a Mr Orpen who believes if we studied the techniques of selling we could find good markets in the U.S.A. for our art industries, woollens etc’. (25 March 1929)

Moon enters Virgo, April 8, 2025, 13:40 UTC (☉ in ♈︎, ☾ in ♍︎) #calendar #astronomical #OTD #OnThisDay

https://hermetic.com/crowley/astrology/your-place-among-the-stars/moon-in-virgo

A new French Minister to the US, Edmond-Charles Genet, arrived in Charleston #OTD in 1793. Learn more about the headaches that he caused for the Washington administration by listening to ep. 1.15. #history #POTUS #Washington https://www.presidenciespodcast.com/115-its-not-easy-being-neutral/

#OTD in 1962: "Tony Bender" #Strollo, a top figure in the #Genovese Crime Family, left his home in #FortLeeNJ #NewJersey and never returned.

Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2020/04/going-out-for-few-minutes.html

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

First Day, Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law, April 8, 1904 https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/three-days-of-the-writing-of-the-book-of-the-law #calendar #historic #recurring #OTD #OnThisDay

#OTD, 50 years ago, the world lost the fabulous, audacious and smart #JosephineBaker.

Instead of some sexy banana dance picture, here she is doing some gardening in her Paris home.

Edit: Error correction (I believed the paper newspaper from today, but just learned better on the internet) - she did not die on the 8th of April, but on the 12th.

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20250408date
#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #Zeitzeichen
Die Venus von Milo wird gefunden (am 8.4.1820) https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-die-venus-von-milo-wird-gefunden-am--100.html (@wikinaut)

#Hörtipp
#OTD #20250408date
#KalenderblattDLF #DLF #Kalenderblatt
Gladow-Bande - Der Al Capone von Berlin https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/08-04-1950-todesurteile-gegen-die-gladow-bande-in-der-ddr-100.html (@wikinaut)

#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.

On this day in 1820, the Venus de Milo, a famous ancient statue, is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos. #VenusDeMilo

On this day in 1886, British prime minister Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill. #Ireland

On this day in 1904, France and the UK sign the Entente cordiale. #France #UK

On this day in 1973, Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, died in France at age 91. #Picasso #Art

Vor 190 Jahren starb Wilhelm von #Humboldt. (Nicht nur) sein Bruder Alexander erkannte in seinem Schaffen geistige Größe und Tiefsinn. Lesen Sie mehr im Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/mit%20offenen%20Augen%20durch%20die%20Welt%20gehen #otd

#OTD 7 April 1897 Walter McFarlane, a streetcar motorman, married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Vossler in Chicago, Illinois. They had 2 daughters. Ruth Dorothy was my grandmother and Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" was younger. Ruth died from a botched surgery, leaving 5 children under the age of 7. Mollie and Peggy, with other relatives, helped care for them. Mollie and the children's father died one day apart, 4 years after Ruth died. Peggy, a spinster, accepted the burden of parenting the children throughout their lives. My father accepted his stepmother, but always looked up to Peggy as a mother figure.
#genealogy

Released 48 years ago today
The eponymous debut studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash, titled Garage Land (both in the UK and US versions of the final song)

The Clash – Garageland Live 1977

Remembering Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren

Vivienne Westwood
April 8, 1941 - December 29, 2022

Malcolm McLaren
January 22, 1946 - April 8, 2010

Happy Birthday to Donita Sparks, American singer, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of the punkrock / grunge band L7, born on this day in 1963, Chicago, Illinois

Photo by Dave Willis

48 years ago today
Released on this day in 1977, the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash.

It is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time