1996 Curaeao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte)
1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1991 Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1991 North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
1990 North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF
1989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form common market
1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market
1982 Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)
1982 Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1978 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
1975 U.N. passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism"
1973 John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1972 Egypt and Libya form federation
1971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
1971 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research
1971 Egypt, Libya and Syria form federation (FAR)
1970 Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations
1969 Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
1968 AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires
1968 Beatles form Python Music Ltd.
1967 Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
1967 Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1967 Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C.
1966 Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1964 Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market
1964 Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market
1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar form republic Tanzania
1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC
1958 Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
1958 U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1958 Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation
1958 Egypt and Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1955 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
1953 Allied forces form West Germany
1953 John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union
1952 East German SED decides to form German DR army
1951 Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ
1951 France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community
1949 Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association
1948 Communist form North China People's Republic
1947 Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union
1947 U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense
1942 OSS, Office of Strategic Services, forms
1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC
1936 Gen Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt
1936 Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
1935 Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers
1931 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front"
1930 Jurgens and Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever
1925 German NSDAP form SS
1924 Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM
1923 Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)
1920 Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1917 Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia
1916 Dutch Girl Guides form
1911 Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union
1907 England, Russia and France form Triple Entente
1907 Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd.
1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1897 Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of NY
1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1894 Daily Racing Form founded
1892 Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer, Bio in Sonata Form
1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
1877 Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
1876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Assn
1873 Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1865 Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
1864 Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington D.C. (12 members)
1860 D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist, On Growth and Form
1805 Horatio Greenough, U.S., neo-classical sculptor/writer, Form and Function
1801 Ireland and Great Britain (England and Scotland) form United Kingdom
1792 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1788 Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1787 Black Masons form 1st lodge
1757 ALF, alien life form, ALF
1707 England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain
1707 English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain
1689 England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg
1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1674 Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1673 Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1666 Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
1658 France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
1657 France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1643 Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1633 Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1571 Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1526 Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac
1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
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