2014 Event The world's largest banana company is created as the Irish fruit company Fyffes merges with U.S. company Chiquita; the new company, ChiquitaFyffes, will trade on the New York Stock Exchange 2013 Event AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, merges with US Airways Group; American Airlines Group is formed and the public company begins trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol AAL 1976 Event ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets and Spurs) merges into NBA 1960 Event In Britain, News Chronicle and Daily Mail merge, and London Evening Star merges with Evening News 1949 Event NFL merges Cleveland Browns, San Francisco '49ers and Baltimore Colts from AAFC 1935 Event WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) 1932 Event WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC 1897 Event Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York 1877 Event Chase National Bank opens in New York City (later merges into Chase Manhattan) 1848 Event Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president
