10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 5 May:
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This date in 1867 saw the birth of Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, aka Nellie Bly, American journalist and women's rights advocate. She wrote about controversial topics like divorce, mental illness and poverty. She set out to beat the fictional Phileas Fogg, and travelled around the world in 72 days. She is most famous for an undercover exposé (Ten Days in a Mad-House) in which she faked insanity in order to study a mental institution from within.
The first live television broadcast from the summit of Mount Everest was transmitted by Japanese television on this date in 1988.
In 1987 more than 130 girls fainted during a gig by Curiosity Killed The Cat in Liverpool.
In 1891, The Music Hall (now known as Carnegie Hall) had its grand opening and first public performance. Tchaikovsky was the guest conductor.
A Grand Alignment: Sun, Moon, and five planets all aligned within 26 degrees in the sign of Taurus, occurred on this date in 2000. The last such alignment occurred in April 1882. Richard W Noone predicted: "On May 5 of the year 2000, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be aligned with the Earth for the first time in 6,000 years. On that day the ice build-up at the South Pole will upset the earth's axis, sending trillions of tons of ice in the water sweeping over the surface of our planet." This was also the date that the lost continent of Mu was supposed to reappear according to the Lemurian fellowship.
In 1988, Australian yachtswoman Kay Cottee became the first woman to sail solo and non-stop around the world.
In 1893, the "Panic of 1893" hit the New York Stock Exchange. Various factors were blamed for the panic, including the bankruptcy of a major railway and shrinking national Gold reserves.
In 1991, the last US cruise missile left Greenham Common Air Base, after a decade of strident women's anti-nuclear protests.
In 2015, scientists announced the discovery of EGS-zs8-1, the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed.
In 1760, Earl Ferrers was the last British peer to be executed, hanged in London for murdering his steward. The hangman’s drop was used for the first time at his execution. It has been said that as a concession to status the rope used was made of silk.
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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