10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 2 December:
- In 1998, a Belgian Air Force plane dropping crates of food by parachute to starving villagers in the Sudan accidentally hit a hut, killing one man and injuring two others. A spokesman for the Belgian Ministry of Defence said: "The hut was hidden by tall grass and the crew didn't spot it until it was too late."
- In 1933, the first transatlantic telephone wedding took place as Bertil Clason of Detroit, Michigan, married Sigrid Carlson of Stockholm, Sweden.
- In 1908, Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) was crowned China's last Emperor at the age of three. He sat on the massive throne bawling, “I want to go home!”
- Charles Dickens gave his first reading in New York on this date in 1867. Before the box office opened the queue was almost a mile long.
- In 1943, Carmen Jones, a contemporary reworking of the Bizet opera Carmen, by Oscar Hammerstein II with an all-black cast, opened on Broadway.
- In 1901, King Camp Gillette patented a safety razor with a double-edged disposable blade.
- In 2003, Darkness singer Justin Hawkins was held for two hours at JFK Airport, New York after police mistook him for a wanted man also named Hawkins, who looked similar. The police only agreed to let him go after Justin's fiancée and his manager Sue Whitehouse produced a tour schedule to prove that he had an alibi: he was in England on the day the crime was committed.
- In 2001, London official town crier Peter Moore had his traditional brass bell stolen from County Hall Waterloo.
- Red Telephone boxes first came into operation in Britain on this date in 1929.
- In 2012, a 200-year-old letter dated 20 October 1812, in which Napoleon Bonaparte vowed to blow up the Moscow Kremlin, fetched €187,500 (£151,000) at a French auction.
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A Superhero love story.
Sent away to school to get her away from undesirable company, Agnes finds herself homesick and lonely. A brief connection with Jason Warner leads to the teenage crush to end all teenage crushes. Jason is barely aware Agnes exists, but she plans her whole future around him.
It is only when they meet again as adults that the connection becomes mutual; but before it can develop, Jason makes a discovery which rocks his entire world. He needs time alone, away from everyone, including Agnes. When Jason is finally ready to go back to his old life, Agnes has moved on and he cannot find her.
Agnes is now a single parent to the remarkable Seraphina. The Power League want to harness Seraphina's powers for evil before the Freedom League become aware of her. Agnes has no idea her new colleague and friend is a supervillain with his own agenda, and his willingness to babysit is not as innocent as she thinks. As Incendio starts teaching Seraphina to use her powers, the Freedom League intervene. Little do they know that they have found one of their own.
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