10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 29 January:
- Oprah Winfrey, US actress and TV host was born on this date in 1954. Her mother intended to name her Orpah, but a typo on her birth certificate legally recorded her name as "Oprah."
- In 1988, during the intermission of a matinée performance of Verdi’s Macbeth at the New York Met, a failed opera singer named Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide by leaping from the balcony.
- In 2018, Viorica Dăncilă was confirmed as Romania's first female Prime Minister.
- In 1965, during a concert in London, singer P.J. Proby split his pants on stage, significantly increasing his "naughty" reputation. Later, he was banned by the ABC theatre chain for his new habit of splitting his trousers on stage on purpose for dramatic effect.
- On this date in 1845, Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror under the pen name, "Quarles".
- In 1856, Queen Victoria instituted Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross. The medal is awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces for outstanding bravery ‘on the field of battle’. Until 1942 the medal was made from the metal of a cannon captured from the Russians at Sevastopol.
- The crime which inspired the Boomtown Rats song I don't like Mondays occurred on this date in 1979. Brenda Spencer, 17, fired repeatedly at the school across the road from her home in San Diego, killing 2 children and wounding 8. When asked why she'd done it, Spencer replied, "I don't like Mondays."
- In 1989 an artificial leg which had belonged to Sir Douglas Bader was put up for sale. His widow was selling memorabilia to raise money to buy herself a house.
- Also in 1989, the Episcopal church appointed its first female bishop.
- In 1886, the first successful gasoline-driven car, the Motor-wagen built by Karl-Friedrich Benz, was patented. It had one cylinder, three wheels and its top speed was 15 miles per hour.
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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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