1 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 1st March:

Frederic Chopin

1. Born this date in 1810 was the Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin. He composed some of his best music for a woman in Warsaw who he was too shy to approach in person.
2. In 2000, a student in New Zealand died after colliding with a parked trailer while hurtling down a 38 degree slope in a wheelie bin in an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records. No world record, but possibly a Darwin Award.
3. In 1493, Martin Pinzon, who'd accompanied Christopher Columbus on his journey of discovery as captain of the Pinta, was the first to arrive back in Europe with news of the discovery of the New World.
4. In 1990, the Royal New Zealand Navy became the last navy in the world to scrap daily Rum rations for sailors.
5. In 1983, President and Mrs. Reagan had the Queen and Prince Philip over for a Mexican lunch at the president's ranch.
6. In 1966, the Soviet Venera 3 became the first man made object to impact on another planet (Venus, as it happens). Exactly 16 years later in 1982, another Russian spacecraft, Venera 14 landed on Venus, and sent back data.
7. The Salem Witch Trials in the Massachusetts colony officially began on this date in 1692 with the conviction of Rev. Samuel Parris' West Indian slave, Tituba, for witchcraft.
8. Isabella Goodwin, the first woman detective in the US, was appointed in New York on this date in 1912.
9. Some dumb criminals were in action on this date in 1998. A car thief who set fire to the cars he stole burned to death when he set fire to a stolen van from the inside, not realising the driver’s door handle was broken and he couldn't get out, while in Denmark, a bank robber took money laundering quite literally when he took his stolen Money to a Launderette to wash out the Red dye. Needless to say, all he was left with was mush.
10. In 1912, Captain Albert Berry of the Jefferson Barracks St. Louis, Missouri, made the first parachute jump from a moving plane. It was from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis. He jumped from an altitude of 1,500 feet at a speed of 50 mph.

A superhero love story:

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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