10 weird and wonderful things that happened on 15 January:
- In 1919, 21 people drowned in a wave of treacle after a giant vat of molasses ruptured in Boston.
- On this date in 1559, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I took place in Westminster Abbey.
- In 1965, The Who released their first single, I Can't Explain.
- In 1870, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson passed the final examination of the Medical Faculty at the Sorbonne, becoming Britain’s first woman doctor.
- In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport in New York. All passengers and crew members survived.
- In 1892, the rules of Basketball were published for the first time in Triangle Magazine, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game originated.
- On this date in 1915, surfing was introduced to Australia as Duke Kahanamoku from Hawaii performed surfboard riding at Sydney's Freshwater Beach near Manly. The Duke made a board out of a piece of sugar pine provided by a surf club member. After some graceful acrobatics, he called for a volunteer from the crowd to join him in a display of tandem riding. Isabel Letham, 16, volunteered and became Australia's first female board rider.
- In 1797, the Top Hat was first worn, by London haberdasher James Hetherington. According to a contemporary report, he "appeared on the public highway wearing a tall structure of shining lustre and calculated to disturb timid people". He was fined £50 for causing a breach of the peace.
- In 2000, Prince Charles called the Millennium Dome (now the O2) a monstrous blancmange.
- In 1846, Angéélique Cottin, 14, of La Perriere, France, experienced a strange phenomenon which would last ten weeks. When she approached objects, they retreated from her, and furniture jumped away from her at the slightest touch of her hand or clothing.
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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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