4 February

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 4 February:

1. This date in 1913 saw the birth of Rosa Parks, the US civil rights activist who helped start the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in 1955.
2. In 1951, doctors in Chicago began operating on a woman named Gertrude Levandowski to remove an ovarian cyst. She had a weak Heart, so the surgeons had to proceed with extreme care. The operation lasted a record 96 hours, the world’s longest operation.
3. In 1982 David Grundman, 27, fired his shotgun at a giant cactus in the Arizona Desert. As he admired the damage he’d done to it, a 23ft section of cactus fell on him and crushed him.
4. In 2017, the cave squeaker (Arthroleptis troglodytes), a critically endangered species of Frog, was located and captured for the first time since 1962. Scientists announced plans to breed them.
5. In 1997, the chain store C and A withdrew 6,000 pairs of men’s underpants from 120 shops because the hole was in the wrong place.
6. Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg on this date in 2004.
7. In 1911, Rolls-Royce commissioned their famous figurehead The Spirit of Ecstasy by Charles Sykes. He used Lord Montague’s mistress, Eleanor Thornton, as his model.
8. In 1982, the indoor distance record for throwing a paper aeroplane (47m) was set in Tacoma, Washington.
9. Two years later, to the day, in 1984, Frank Aquilera set the world Frisbee distance record (168m) in Las Vegas.
10. In 1990, a 68-year-old woman arrested for shoplifting cigarettes told Seattle police that it was all Judge Wapner's fault. She said the judge had told talk show host Pat Sajak that "everybody steals, at least once in their life."

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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