19 April

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 19 April:

1. On this date in 2000, a Georgia mechanic was killed by an exploding tyre. He should have known better than to try and fix a wheel rim with a welding torch without deflating the tyre first. The heat caused the air in the tyre to expand, which caused the explosion.
2. In 1934, Shirley Temple’s first film, Stand Up and Cheer, was released.
3. In 1987 The Simpsons first appeared on TV. Their debut was on the Tracey Ullman Show as a filler between sketches.
4. In 2001, over 100 staff and students in Friley Hall kitchen at Iowa State University baked the world’s largest Rice Krispie square. It took them 8 hours, using 818 pounds of Rice Krispies, 1,466 pounds of Marshmallows and 217 pounds of butter. It was twelve feet long, six feet wide and two feet deep. It had to be loaded on a truck to be weighed: 2,480 pounds.
5. In 1982, astronauts Sally K. Ride and Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first woman and the first African-American to be selected for US space missions.
6. On this date in 2002, something happened which had only happened 9 times in the last 2,000 years: five planets visible to the naked eye were in conjunction, namely Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
7. In 1958, Bobby Charlton played his first international match for England.
8. In 1637, Amye Everard became the first English woman to be granted a patent, for her tincture of Saffron and essence of Roses.
9. In 1587, Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbour and sank the Spanish fleet, an action he referred to as "singeing the king of Spain's beard."
10. In 1951, Eric Morley, Publicity Officer with Mecca Ltd, devised the first Miss World beauty contest to coincide with the Festival of Britain. There were 30 contestants, but only five came from overseas. The winner was Kiki Haakonson, a Stockholm policeman’s daughter.

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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