10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 29 April:
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In 1962, a boy in Mexico City, Henry Espinola, died of radiation poisoning. In March, he'd found seven pellets of radioactive cobalt in the street, brought them home, and kept them in a cookie jar. Henry's mother, sister died and his grandmother died later in the year. Only his father, who visited just on weekends, survived.
In 1990, wrecking cranes began tearing down the section of the Berlin Wall around the Brandenburg Gate.
In 1995 the longest sausage ever, 2877 miles long, was made in Kitchener Ontario.
In 2019 Avengers: Endgame broke numerous box office records, including the biggest opening weekend in cinematic history.
In 1990, Stephen Hendry of Scotland, aged 21, became the youngest ever Embassy World Snooker Champion by beating Jimmy White 18-12 in the final at Sheffield.
According to Medieval calendars, this was the date Noah left the Ark.
In 1993 Queen Elizabeth II announced that for the first time, Buckingham Palace would be opened to tourists to help raise money for repairs at fire-damaged Windsor Castle.
In 2002, the Queen held a dinner party to celebrate her Golden Jubilee. The guests included 5 prime ministers: Tony Blair, John Major, Baroness Thatcher, Lord Callaghan, Sir Edward Heath, and relatives of another five PMs from her reign. They ate cured duck with melon, and roast troncon of Turbot.
The first known horoscope was devoted to someone born on this date in 410 BC.
In 1998, David Hempleman-Adams, from Swindon, reached the geographic North Pole with Norwegian Rune Gjeldnes, the first person to reach both the north and south geographic and magnetic poles and climb the highest peaks in 7 continents. David's daughter Alicia, aged 8, became the youngest person to stand at the North Pole.
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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