📜 This Day in History
December 7
43 BCCicero, widely considered one of ancient Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists, was killed after having been proscribed as an enemy of the state.- 1837British troops swiftly defeated rebels led by William Lyon Mackenzie and Anthony Van Egmond at the Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only major confrontation of the Upper Canada Rebellion.
- 1942Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
- 1975The Indonesian military began a lengthy occupation of East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism.
- 2011The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
- 2015The JAXA space probe Akatsuki entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.
