10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 14 June:
- Henry III was crowned King of England on this date in 1170.
- In 1381 King Richard II, a teenager, rode out to meet the leaders of Peasant's Revolt.
- In 2012, HBO issued a public apology for any offence caused after a decapitated head on a spike in Game of Thrones was said to resemble that of former U.S. president George W. Bush.
- In 1964, a band called The Manish Boys auditioned for the UK television talent show Opportunity Knocks. One of its members was David Bowie.
- Whiskey distilled from maize was first produced on this date in 1789 by Rev Elijah Craig. He called it bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
- On this date in 1914, two inches of rain, the entire average rainfall for the month of June, and hailstones the size of Plums fell in South London. The underground was flooded, and several people struck by Lightning. North of the river, however, they had glorious sunshine.
- In 1919, British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown set off from Lester's field, Newfoundland, Canada, on the first non-stop transatlantic flight, in a Vickers Vimy, a WWI bomber. The 1,900 mile (3,040 km) flight ended the following day when the pair crash-landed in Galway, Ireland. Neither of the pilots was injured.
- The first Henley Regatta was held on this date in 1839. The event is now an annual festival for rowers and imbibers of Pimms No. 1.
- In 1948, the home of 63-year-old farmer J. Frank Miller was raided by three armed burglars, demanding to know where he kept a rare German Lutheran Bible. Miller refused to tell them, so they shot him and ransacked his house. They found the Bible, one of just two in existence, in a bureau drawer but left nearly $100 in cash.
- In 1982, Argentinian troops surrendered to the British Army, bringing the Falklands War to an end.
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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