10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 5 December:
- George Armstrong Custer, US cavalry commander famous for his ‘Last Stand’ was born on this date in 1839. He attacked Sitting Bull’s encampment on the Little Bighorn River in Montana and all 250 of his men were killed, because he failed to wait for reinforcements to arrive.
- Born this date in 1870 was Bill Pickett, US rodeo cowboy who was the first black man to be inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame nearly 40 years after his death.
- Also born on this date, in 1963, Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards, British skier, the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping and was the British ski jumping record holder (despite coming last).
- In 1982, Thomas Hart of Detroit, MI died from the head injuries caused by a 14 pound burgundy bowling ball that had entered his car through the windscreen the previous day. It is not known how the bowling ball came to be there.
- In 1980, Raquel Welch was fired for taking too long to put on her make-up. She took 3 hours and was replaced by Deborah Winger.
- In 1958, Harold Macmillan opened the Preston bypass in Lancashire, the first stretch of motorway in Britain.
- The first documented use of an Umbrella in Britain occurred on this date in 1758.
- In 1958, The Queen dialled Edinburgh from Bristol – the first direct dialled trunk call.
- In 1945, five US Navy bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Contact was lost and an aircraft was sent to look for them. It too lost contact and no trace of any of the aircraft or their 27 crew was ever found. The unexplained disappearance, believed to have been caused by environmental factors and human error, became part of the legend of the Bermuda Triangle, an area bounded by Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico where ships and planes seemed to vanish mysteriously.
- In 1996, scientists in Adelaide announced the discovery that Koalas have similar fingerprints to humans.
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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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