10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 23 January:
- 23 January 1919 saw the birth of Ernie Kovacs, an American comedian and pioneer of television comedy. He said of his own medium: “Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well-done.”
- On this date in 1806 William Pitt ‘The Younger’ died at the age of 46. At the age of 24, he became Britain's youngest prime minister. There is controversy over his last words. Some say they were ‘Oh, my country! how I love my country!’ Others claim he said ‘Oh, my country! how I leave my country!’; or ‘I think I could eat one of Bellamy’s veal pies.’
- Another person who met their end on this date was ballerina Anna Pavlova, aged 49. She was the first ballerina to embark on a world tour, and her most famous dance is the Dying Swan. Suffering from pneumonia whilst on tour, she was told she needed an operation, but would never be able to dance again if she had it. She refused to have the operation saying "If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead." Three weeks later she died of pleurisy, about three weeks shy of her 50th birthday.
- A somewhat undignified death occurred on this date in 1998. A circus act in Romania ended in tragedy when fire-eater Vlad Cazacu belched mid-performance and was blown to bits.
- In 1594, Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus was performed, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play.
- In 1849, English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree, from the Medical Institution of Geneva, New York.
- The weather on this day in 1969 could hardly be described as good weather for ducks. 300 of the unfortunate birds died when light from newly installed mercury vapour street lamps, shining through a heavy fog, caused them to mistake a car park for water and crash into buildings in Maryland.
- In 1963 The Beatles drove home to Liverpool after a recording session in London. Their van had no windscreen, and it was so cold the band sat in the back wearing paper bags on their heads and drank Whiskey to keep warm.
- In 1647, in the early hours of the morning, shepherds and travellers in Northamptonshire reported having seen an apparition of a battle which had taken place two months earlier, complete with sound, in the sky.
- In 1937, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen opened a trust fund to take care of his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, when he died. The fund would make Charlie the world's richest dummy.
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The Power of Love
Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic ordering and the significance of chance encounters. She believes there's a spiritual explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.
A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.
Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.
When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.
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