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On December 7, -43: Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric".

People

Born on December 7

Torri Huske 2002– American swimmer (born 2002)
Jalen McMillan 2001– American football player (born 2001)
Dane Belton 2000– American football player (born 2000)
Boo Buie 1999– American basketball player (born 1999)
Pavol Regenda 1999– Slovak ice hockey player (born 1999)
Tony Yike Yang 1998– Canadian-Chinese pianist (born 1998)
Abi Harrison 1997– Scottish footballer
Tommy Nelson 1997– American actor (born 1997)
Pete Alonso 1994– American baseball player (born 1994)
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Geno Chiarelli 1994– American politician
Yuzuru Hanyu 1994– Japanese figure skater (born 1994)
Hunter Henry 1994– American football player (born 1994)
Rahama Sadau 1993– Nigerian actress, filmmaker and singer (born 1993)
Alex Singleton 1993– American gridiron football player (born 1993)
Sean Couturier 1992– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Eugenio Pisani 1991– Italian auto racing driver from Ravenna (born 1991)
Chris Wood 1991– New Zealand footballer
Cameron Bairstow 1990– Australian basketball player (born 1990)

People

Died on December 7

Doudou Adoula Musical artist
Benjamin Zephaniah British poet and author (1958–2023)
Refaat Alareer Palestinian writer and professor (1979–2023)
Emiko Miyamoto Japanese volleyball player (1937–2023)
Dick Allen American baseball player (1942–2020)
Chuck Yeager American flying ace and test pilot (1923–2020)
Remilia American professional gamer (1995–2019)
Ron Saunders English footballer and manager (1932–2019)
Steve Reevis Blackfeet actor (1962-2017)
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Junaid Jamshed Pakistani Islamic preacher and singer-songwriter (1964–2016)
Greg Lake English musician (1947–2016)
Gerhard Lenski American sociologist
Hyron Spinrad American astronomer
Peter Westbury British racing driver (1938–2015)
Shirley Stelfox British actress (1941–2015)
Mark Lewis American storyteller, actor, and teacher (1954–2014)
Édouard Molinaro French film director and screenwriter
Chick Willis American blues singer and guitarist

Timeline

Every December 7 on record

  1. -43 Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.

    Roman statesman and lawyer (106–43 BC)

    Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric".

  2. 574 Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him as Caesar.

    Roman emperor from 565 to 578

    Justin II was Eastern Roman emperor from 565 until 578. He was the nephew of Justinian I and the husband of Sophia, the niece of Justinian's wife Theodora.

  3. 927 The Sajid emir of Adharbayjan, Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj is defeated and captured by the Qarmatians near Kufa.

    889–929 Iranian Muslim dynasty of Azerbaijan and Armenia

    The Sajid dynasty was a Muslim dynasty, of Iranian origin, that ruled from 889/890 until 929. The Sajids ruled Azerbaijan and parts of Armenia first from Maragha and Barda and then from Ardabil. The Sajids originated from the Central Asian province of Ushrusana and were of Iranian (Sogdian) descent and culturally Arabised.

  4. 1703 The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.

    English extratropical cyclone

    The Great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck south Wales and central and southern England on 26 November 1703. High winds caused 2,000 chimney stacks to collapse in London and damaged the New Forest, which lost 4,000 oaks. Ships were blown hundreds of miles off-course, and over 1,000 seamen died on the Goodwin Sands alone.

  5. 1724 Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.

    Religious conflict in Royal Prussia in 1724

    The Tumult of Thorn (Toruń), or Blood-Bath of Thorn refers to executions ordered in 1724 by the Polish supreme court under Augustus II the Strong of Poland. During a religious conflict between Protestant townsfolk represented by mayor Johann Gottfried Rösner, and the Roman Catholic students of the Jesuit college in the city of Thorn (Toruń) in Royal Prussia, the college had been vandalised by a crowd of German Protestants. The mayor and nine other Lutheran officials were blamed for neglect of duty, sentenced to death, and executed on 7 December 1724.

  6. 1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
  7. 1776 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
  8. 1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  9. 1837 The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.
  10. 1842 First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
  11. 1904 Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
  12. 1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  13. 1922 The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
  14. 1930 W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.
  15. 1932 German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
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  1. 1936 Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
  2. 1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
  3. 1942 World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
  4. 1944 An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1,223 people.
  5. 1946 A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
  6. 1949 Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.
  7. 1962 Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
  8. 1963 Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
  9. 1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
  10. 1971 The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Indian Army.
  11. 1971 Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
  12. 1972 Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
  13. 1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
  14. 1982 The Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.
  15. 1983 An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.

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