26 November

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 26 November:

1. Born this date in 1922 was Charles Schultz, creator of Peanuts. He said “It seems beyond comprehension that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was.”
2. In 1938 Tina Turner (Annie Mae Bullock), US singer and actress was born. Her career has spanned more than 50 years. Turner started her music career as Ike and Tina Turner with a string of hits including River Deep, Mountain High, Nutbush City Limits and Proud Mary. She went on to forge a solo career, with hits including Let's Stay Together, What’s Love Got to Do With it, The Best and Private Dancer.
3. In 1862, on meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, President Abraham Lincoln commented: "So this is the little lady who made the big war."
4. In 1789, President George Washington proclaimed this date (a Thursday) to be the first national Thanksgiving Day holiday.
5. Members of the band Pink Floyd watched the launch of a joint Soviet-French space mission from Soviet Central Asia on this date in 1988. One of the cosmonauts had requested an advance copy of Pink Floyd's live album, The Delicate Sound of Thunder, to play during the flight.
6. In 1867, one Mrs Lily Maxwell of Manchester cast her vote in a parliamentary election. She had been placed on the electoral register by mistake and had to be escorted by a bodyguard to protect her from opponents to women's suffrage.
7. In 1988, Mrs Rita Lockett of Torquay spent £10,000 to repeat her daughter’s wedding two months after the event, because she didn't like the video made on the day. The couple went through the reception with all 200 wedding guests wearing the same outfits listening to the same speeches, this time with a professional video crew on hand.
8. In 1996, Gloria Garza Villanueva, a Mexican Tarot Card reader, was shot twice in the head because a customer didn’t like the future she'd predicted for him.
9. In 1703, England was hit by severe gales, known as the Great Storm. The first Eddystone Lighthouse was swept away, taking the man who built it, Henry Winstanley, with it. More than 8,000 died across the country and the Royal Navy lost 15 warships.
10. In 1993, Penn and Teller performed the world largest card trick on Late Show with David Letterman. The cards were steel, and so heavy that forklift trucks were used to shuffle them.

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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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