3 December

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 3 December:

1. In 1999, a woman in Denmark was killed when she climbed up on the roof to fix her TV aerial during a hurricane so as not to miss any weather reports.
2. Pigs might fly? One did, on this date in 1976. A 40-foot long inflatable pig, nicknamed Algie, being photographed at Battersea Power Station for the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals, broke loose from its guide wires. It flew east and reached a height of 18,000 feet. The Civil Aviation Authority issued a warning to all pilots that a flying pig was loose. The pig eventually crashed into a barn in Godmersham, Kent, where the farmer complained that it had frightened his cows.
3. In 1977, Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre reached the top of the UK charts. It was the best selling single ever in the UK.
4. In 1920, Rudyard Kipling was awarded £2 damages for the unauthorised use of his poem, If, in a medical advertisement.
5. In 1586, Sir Thomas Herriot and Sir Francis Drake first introduced the Potato to England.
6. Dr Christiaan Barnard carried out the world’s first Heart transplant in Cape Town on this date in 1967. The donor was Denise Darvall, 25, a bank clerk who agreed as she was dying after a road accident to give her heart to grocer Louis Washansky, 53. It didn't buy him much time. He died 18 days later as a result of tissue rejection.
7. In 2012, an EgyptAir pilot made an emergency landing at Hurghada airport after a Snake bit a Jordanian passenger. And you thought Snakes on a Plane was fiction.
8. Agatha Christie disappeared from her Surrey home on this date in 1926. She was found 11 days later staying under an assumed name at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. She said she had no recollection of how she came to be there.
9. In 1997, a Connecticut criminal pulled into what he thought was a shopping mall while trying to escape police during a car chase. He’d actually driven into the car park of MacDougall Correctional Institution, a high security prison, and was trapped when automatic gates closed behind him.
10. In 1995, to demonstrate their success in animal conditioning, scientists in Finland set up a Basketball match between two teams of Rats.

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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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