28 February

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 February:

Yellowstone

1. In 1983 the last ever episode of M*A*S*H was aired. The series ended after 11 seasons with a special 2 ½ hour finale watched by an estimated 121.6 million people. 
2. In 1966, The Cavern Club, in Liverpool, in which The Beatles were introduced and appeared over 250 times, closed due to financial difficulties. The club had run up debts of over £10,000. Beatles fans weren't happy about this. Police were called after over a 100 of them barricaded themselves inside the Cavern Club to protest at the club's closure. 
3. In 1662, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary about a severe gale in England, in which more than three thousand trees were blown down in the Forest of Dean. Pepys wrote, “such as hath not been in memory before.” 
4. In 1871, Yellowstone became the first US National Park.
5. In 1996, Prince Charles and Princess Diana agreed to divorce after 15 years of marriage. 
6. In 1948, King George VI, the Queen, Princess Elizabeth, her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret went to see Danny Kaye at the London Palladium, the first ‘non-command performance’ to be attended by a reigning monarch.
7. In 1944, Hanna Reitsch, Nazi Germany's celebrated female test pilot, suggested to Adolph Hitler that he should create a suicide squadron of glider pilots. Hitler was sceptical at first believing that such a squadron wouldn't be an effective use of Germany's limited resources. Her enthusiasm finally won him over; and he agreed to investigate the possibility of adapting the V-1, a pilotless robotic bomb, into a kamikaze vehicle. Reitsch formed a Suicide Group, and was herself the first person to take the pledge: ‘I hereby voluntarily apply to be enrolled in the suicide group as a pilot of a human glider-bomb. I fully understand that employment in this capacity will entail my own death.’ As it turned out, neither she nor anyone else was ever called upon to make that sacrifice, as the squadron was never deployed.
8. In 1790, John Irving became the first convict to be freed in Australia. 
9. In 1988, a 90 year old Miami man was charged with the murder of his 76 year old bride. They'd fallen out over where to go for their honeymoon so he beat her to death with a hammer.
10. In 1989, the world’s biggest litter bin was unveiled in Covent Garden in London; it was sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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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