What is December 7?
{{calendar}} {{Day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[43 BC]] &ndash; Roman writer, lawyer and statesman [[Cicero]] is [[Assassination|assassinated]]. * [[574]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Justin II]] retires. * [[1703]] &ndash; The Great [[Storm]] of [[1703]] in [[Great Britain]] makes landfall. * [[1724]] &ndash; [[Religion|religious]] troubles were followed by the [[execution]] of nine [[Protestant]] [[citizen]]s and the [[mayor]] of [[Toruń|Thorn (Toruń)]] by [[Poland|Polish]] authorities. * [[1732]] &ndash; The [[Royal Opera House]] opens in [[London]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; [[Glibert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette]] arranges to enter the American [[military]] as a [[general]]. * [[1787]] &ndash; [[Delaware]] becomes the first state to ratify the [[US Constitution]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle]] of Prairie Grove, [[Arkansas]]. * [[1869]] &ndash; American outlaw [[Jesse James]] commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, [[Missouri]]. === 1901 &ndash; 1950 === * [[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The [[United States]] declares [[war]] on [[Austria-Hungary]]. * [[1941]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Canada]] declares war on [[Finland]], [[Hungary]], [[Romania]], and [[Japan]]. * [[1941]] &ndash; The [[Japan]]ese attack the [[Hawaii]]an city of [[Pearl Harbor]] during [[World War II]]. 2,403 people are killed, 188 planes are destroyed, and 8 US ships are damaged or destroyed. * [[1946]] &ndash; A [[fire]] at the Winecoff [[Hotel]] in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], kills 119 people. * [[1949]] &ndash; [[Chinese Civil War]]: The government of [[Republic of China]] moves from [[Nanking]] to [[Taipei]]. === 1951 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1962]] &ndash; [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]] revises the [[principality]]'s [[constitution]], [[Devolution|devolving]] some of his power to advisory and legislative [[council]]s. * [[1970]] &ndash; West German Chancellor [[Willy Brandt]] makes a gesture of [[reconciliation]] towards the victims of the [[Warsaw]] [[Ghetto]] uprising, k