On This Day: December 1st

The Arecibo Telescope collapses.

Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.

The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan.

The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.

The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.

The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in the European Union.

The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent.

As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, a new subject of the Russian Federation, the Perm Krai, was created.

The United Russia political party was founded.

Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.