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0049 Julius Caesar leads his army across the Rubicon River, plunging Rome into civil war.

1843 Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," dies in Baltimore.

1861 Alabama secedes from the Union.

1862 Lincoln accepts Simon Cameron's resignation as Secretary of War.

1887 At Fort Smith, Arkansas, hangman George Maledon dispatches four victims in a multiple hanging.

1904 British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland.

1916 Russian General Yudenich launches a WWI winter offensive and advances west.

1923 The French enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to extract Germany's resources as war payment.

1934 The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin.

1940 Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Army's first black general, his son would later become a general as well.