1919
Dec 1, Lady Astor was sworn in as the first female member of the British Parliament.

1967
Dec 1, Queen Elizabeth inaugurated the 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope.
1999
Dec 1, Queen Elizabeth approved a law that granted semi autonomy to Northern Ireland and a midnight power passed formally from London to Belfast.

2001
Dec 1 A baby girl was born to Japan's Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito, the royal couple's first child in eight years of marriage; she was later named Aiko.
2004
Dec 1, Andrea Labbe (26), a Toronto woman, stabbed her husband and three-year-old daughter to death before fatally cutting her own throat in one of the most terrible tragedies ever encountered by the city's emergency workers.

2010
Dec 1, Iran hanged Shahla Jahed (40), a former soccer player's mistress. She was convicted in 2002 of murdering her love rival in a case that captivated the Iranian public for several years.

2011
Dec 1, Christa Wolf (b.1929), East German writer, died. Her first novel “Divided Heaven" (1963) was translated to English in 2013 under the title “They Divided the Sky." Her last novel “City of Angels" was also translated into English in 2013. In 1993 Wolf was revealed to have been an informer for the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police.

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