10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 6 May:
In 1910, George V acceded to the throne following the death of King Edward VII. He celebrated his Silver Jubilee with Queen Mary in 1935.
In 1851, John Gorrie was granted a US patent for an ice-making machine for treating yellow fever. Gorrie is considered the father of refrigeration and air-conditioning.
Meanwhile, in Newport, New York, Linus Yale also received a patent: for the clock-type lock. Yale locks are among the top brands of security devices sold today.
In 2012, Japan shut down its last nuclear reactor, leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970.
In 1782, James Price, a Guildford chemist, began an experiment to turn Mercury into Gold (although some sources say it was sulphur, or half a grain of ‘a certain powder of deep red colour’ with some heated mercury; or a white powder with mercury, borax and nitre, as well as Silver). He presented some of his alleged gold to King George III, and was awarded the degree of MD by Oxford University.
In 1994, England and France were linked for the first time since the end of the Great Ice Age as Queen Elizabeth II and the French President François Mitterrand inaugurated the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
The first Kentucky Derby was run on this date in 1874, at Churchhill Downs track, Louisville, Kentucky, and has been run on the first Saturday in May ever since.
In 2349 BC, according to 17th Century Irish Bishop James Ussher, Noah's Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. He worked this out using astronomy and an old Hebrew Calendar. He also declared that it was a Wednesday.
In 1937, the German airship, Hindenburg, arrived at Lakehurst, New Jersey from Frankfurt. Radio commentator Herb Morrison, was describing the event when the airship struck the landing mast and exploded. ‘Oh, the humanity, all the passengers, I don’t believe it,’ he cried, in his historic recording. 36 of 97 on board died. On this same date in 1919, the British Admiralty had recommended Helium as a safe substitute for hydrogen-filled balloons and airships. The Hindenburg had been designed for helium but had been filled with hydrogen. The official cause of the explosion was listed as "St. Elmo's Fire."
In 1996, Venetian gondoliers went on strike. They stopped serenading their customers when told this made them freelance musicians and therefore liable to pay into a state pension fund.
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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