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Obama urges Germans to collaborate

BERLIN (AP) — Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago. "The...

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On July 25, 1956,
the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; at least 51 people were killed. (The Andrea Doria sank the following day, some 11 hours after the crash.)

In 1866,
Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.

In 1868,
Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.