On This Day In History. What Happened Today In History What Happened This Day In History.(Today in History December 7)
Today in History December 7 43 BC Cicero, considered one of the greatest sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of Marcus Antonius. 983 Otto III takes the throne after his father's death in Italy. A power struggle between magnates ensues. 1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 1808 James Madison is elected president in succession of Thomas Jefferson. 1861 USS Santiago de Cuba , under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent. 1862 Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. 1863 Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the "Innocents," robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana. 1917 The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congre...
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