December 7th
A momentous day of the year for all of history.
On December 7th, 43 BC, Cicero was assassinated on the proscriptions of the Second Triumvirate, specifically at the behest of Marc Antony.
On December 7th, 1703, the Great Storm struck Wales and southern England, claiming over 8,000 human lives, over 5,000 homes along the Thames, innumerable thousands of livestock, thousands of chimneys in London and over 4,000 oak trees in the New Forest.
On December 7th, 1776, Lafayette joined the Patriot cause in the American Revolutionary War.
On December 7th, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America.
On December 7th, 1917, the United States declared war on Austria–Hungary in World War I.
On December 7th, 1932, Einstein was first granted his American visa.
On December 7th, 1941—a day which will live on in infamy, not the least because of the infamous irony in the speech given to Congress declaring it to live on in infamy—the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, leading the United States to declare war on the Empire of Japan.
On December 7th, 1949, the government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan, where they would then remain unto the present day.
On December 7th, 1965, the Catholic and Orthodox churches simultaneously revoked mutual excommunications upon the other that had been in place since the Great Schism of 1054.
On December 7th, 1972, the last Apollo mission is launched, upon which the Blue Marble photograph is taken of the Earth.
And on December 7th, 2017—a day which will also live in infamy—I got married.
You might have to wait a while to see the significance of that though. 😉
