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2010 Event - The world's biggest airline is created when United Airlines shareholders approve a deal to merge with Continental Airlines

2010 Event - United and Continental air lines announce that the two American companies will merge, creating the world's largest airline

1991 Event - 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston

1987 Event - 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver

1979 Event - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US

1977 Event - 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes

1965 Event - Continental Football League plays 1st games

1960 Event - Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating

1959 Event - Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth

1959 Event - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League

1959 Event - Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League

1959 Event - New Continental baseball league formed

1958 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League

1956 Birthday - Peter Holsapple, rocker, Continental Drifters

1950 Event - 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC

1941 Event - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev

1940 Birthday - Frank Lorenzo, airline executive, Continental, Texas Air, Eastern

1940 Birthday - Carlin Glynn, U.S. actress, Continental Divide

1937 Birthday - Alain Badiou, born in Rabat, Morocco, influential French philosopher, chair, subscribes to an anti-postmodern form of continental philosophy

1907 Birthday - Renzo Cesana, Rome, Italy, TV host, First Date, Continental

1883 Birthday - Ethel Clayton, Missouri, actress, Hotel Continental

1880 Birthday - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist, continental shift

1785 Event - Continental Congress convenes in New York City

1784 Event - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it

1783 Event - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded

1783 Event - Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address"

1781 Event - Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation

1780 Event - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals

1778 Event - George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army

1778 Event - Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge

1777 Event - Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress

1777 Event - Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army

1777 Event - Continental Congress adopts Stars and Stripes replacing Grand Union flag

1776 Event - Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France

1776 Event - Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "US"

1776 Event - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States"

1776 Event - Continental Congress create a committee to draft Declaration of Independence

1776 Event - Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence

1776 Event - Richard Lee moves Declaration of Independence in Continental Congress

1776 Event - Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington

1776 Event - Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks

1776 Event - General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag

1775 Event - Continental Navy organized with 7 ships

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress formally establishes U.S. Navy

1775 Event - Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army

1775 Event - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet

1775 Event - Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army

1775 Event - Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army

1775 Event - Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass

1775 Event - 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)

1775 Event - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress convenes in Pennsylvania issues paper currency for 1st time

1775 Event - 2nd Continental Congress names George Washington, supreme commander

1774 Event - 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia

1774 Event - Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment

1774 Event - 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights, Philadelphia

1774 Event - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia

1774 Event - 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)

1735 Birthday - John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army

1731 Birthday - Samuel Huntington, Gov-Ct, Continental Congress president

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