10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 7 May:
This date in 1919 saw the birth of Eva Peron, second wife of President Juan Domingo Perón. She served as First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death from cancer at the age of 33. She is often referred to as Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva".
In 2010, Caroline Lucas became the first ever Green Party MP, having won the Brighton Pavilion constituency with a majority of 1,252.
In 2017 there was an election in France. Emmanuel Macron won the election, becoming the youngest French head of state since Napoleon.
In 1660, Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patented Macaroni.
In 1994 Norway's most famous painting, The Scream by Edvard Munch, was found undamaged in a hotel in south Norway, almost three months after it was stolen from an Oslo museum.
In 1996, Harvard researchers concluded that sex was unlikely to cause heart attacks.
In 1988, the first gathering of people claiming to have been abducted by aliens took place in Boston.
In 1765, HMS Victory, the British battleship and flagship of Lord Nelson, was launched at Chatham, Kent.
In 2002, American college student Lucas Helder was arrested on firearms and explosives charges. He'd planted 18 pipe and bottle bombs across several states including Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Texas and Indiana. Helder confessed to it all quite cheerfully, claiming that his aim had been to make a smiley face on the map.
In 1985, the first Pig racing season began in Tulsa. First-year favourites included Marvin Hogler and Bruce Pigsteen.
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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