2015 Event NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detects liquid water on Mars in the form of hydrated salts; the minerals are found along flow lines on steep slopes and tend to appear during 'warm' weather (above 10 degrees F , -23 degrees C) 2015 Event Certain members of Greece's Syriza party form the Popular Unity Party, which opposes the current E.U. bailout; Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who ran on a Syriza anti-bailout platform, resigned after accepting the bailout terms against voter wishes 2015 Event H.J. Heinz Co and Kraft Foods Group Inc. will merge to form the third-largest global food company, Kraft Heinz Co.; the merger will be financed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Jorge Paulo Lemann's 3G Capital 2015 Event The U.S. will support the Ukraine in its fight against separatist militants by providing $75 million in non-lethal aid in the form of drones, ambulances and radios; Humvees will also be sent under a separate agreement 2014 Event Mobile photo sharing app Snapchat settles with the Federal Trade Commission after acknowledging that it falsely claimed that data sent through the app would disappear rather than form a permanent record, creating user privacy violations 2014 Event Researchers have developed synthetic nucleobases, the molecules that form the backbone of DNA; organisms successfully replicated the synthetic bases, implying that creation of new life forms with these additional bases may be possible in the future 2014 Event Football players at Northwestern University cast votes on whether to form a union; the players were ruled last month to be university employees by the National Labor Relations Board, giving the students the right to organize 2014 Event Google is partnering with solar manufacturer SunPower to form a financing program to help families afford solar power for their homes 2014 Event Space station astronauts received an Easter Day delivery in the form of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spaceship filled with food, supplies, equipment and care packages; the space station delivery was the fourth for the commercial space technology company 2014 Event Lebanon's new Prime Minister Tammam Salam declares that he has been able to form a new cabinet, breaking the 10-month impasse between Hezbollah and Sunni rival parties; Salam intends to hold presidential elections on time 2013 Event Italy's vice-secretary of the Democratic Party , Enrico Letta, receives the mandate for form a new government from president Giorgio Napolitano 2012 Event Prime Minister Victor Ponta, of the Social Liberal Union, is nominated by Romanian President, Traian Basescu, to form a new government after Romania holds its parliamentary election later this December 2012 Event Typhoon Haikui, expected to make landfall in Zhejiang early tonight or early tomorrow, prompts the People's Republic of China to evacuate 200,000 people form Shanghai 2012 Event Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2012 Event While Greece struggles to overcome its economic crisis, Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's New Democratic party, negotiates with political rivals to form a coalition government 1997 Death Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phe, nomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', dies from heart failure 1996 Event Curaeao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte) 1994 Event Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites 1991 Event Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States 1991 Event North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition 1990 Event North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen 1989 Event NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF 1989 Event Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form common market 1989 Event Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market 1982 Event Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF) 1982 Event Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) 1978 Event Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government 1975 Event U.N. passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" 1973 Event John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence 1972 Event Egypt and Libya form federation 1971 Event Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson 1971 Event Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates 1971 Event 16 baseball researchers form Society for American Baseball Research 1971 Event Egypt, Libya and Syria form federation (FAR) 1970 Event Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations 1969 Event Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain 1968 Event AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires 1968 Event Beatles form Python Music Ltd. 1967 Event Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull 1967 Event Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) 1967 Event Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C. 1966 Event Buffalo Springfield form, Steven Stills, Neil Young 1964 Event Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market 1964 Event Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market 1964 Event Tanganyika and Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar 1964 Event Tanganyika and Zanzibar form republic Tanzania 1963 Event Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income 1962 Event Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb 1960 Event Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia and Venezuela form OPEC 1958 Event Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society 1958 Event U.S. and Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) 1958 Event Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation 1958 Event Egypt and Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) 1955 Event 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 Event Allied forces form West Germany 1953 Event John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union 1952 Event East German SED decides to form East Germany army 1951 Event Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ 1951 Event France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community 1950 Birthday Beth Anderson, born in Lexington, Kentucky, composer, singer, neo-romantic genre, invented swales, a musical form based on collages, samples of newly composed music vs. existing music, famous for singing with Limahl on 'The Never Ending Story' film title song 1949 Event Basketball Assoc of America and National Basketball League merge to form National Basketball Association 1948 Event Communist form North China People's Republic 1947 Event Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherland form Benelux Union 1947 Event U.S. Air Force, Navy and War Department form U.S. Department of Defense 1939 Event British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC 1937 Birthday Alain Badiou, born in Rabat, Morocco, influential French philosopher, chair, subscribes to an anti-postmodern form of continental philosophy 1936 Event General Mola and Cabanellas form Spanish anti-govt 1936 Birthday John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew 1936 Event Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular 1935 Event Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous 1933 Event Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers 1931 Event 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front" 1930 Event Jurgens and Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever 1925 Event German NSDAP form SS 1924 Event Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM 1923 Event General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship 1923 Event Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form 1922 Event 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) 1921 Birthday Paulo Freire, born in Recife, Brazil, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phenomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' 1920 Event Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League 1917 Event Pact of Corfu signed: Serbs, Croats and Slovenes form Yugoslavia 1916 Event Dutch Girl Guides form 1911 Event Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union 1907 Event England, Russia and France form Triple Entente 1907 Event Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) 1906 Event Brits Rolls, Royce and Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd. 1902 Event Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League 1902 Death Swami Vivekananda, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893, dies at age 39, suffered form Asthma, diabetes, and other physical ailments 1897 Event Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York 1895 Event El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union 1895 Event Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras form a short-lived confederation 1894 Event Daily Racing Form founded 1892 Birthday Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer, Bio in Sonata Form 1889 Event Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany) 1885 Event John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union 1877 Birthday Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer 1876 Event Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association 1873 Event Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary 1865 Event Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn 1864 Birthday Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937 1864 Event Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington D.C. (12 members) 1860 Birthday D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist, On Growth and Form 1805 Birthday Horatio Greenough, U.S., neo-classical sculptor/writer, Form and Function 1801 Event Ireland and Great Britain, England and Scotland, form United Kingdom 1792 Event 24 merchants form New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street 1788 Event Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 1787 Event Black Masons form 1st lodge 1757 Birthday ALF, alien life form, ALF 1707 Event England, Wales and Scotland form U.K. of Great Britain 1707 Event English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain 1689 Event England and Netherlands form League of Augsburg 1675 Event Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom 1674 Event Spain, France and Netherlands form Triple Alliance 1673 Event Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant 1666 Event Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Netherlands form anti-French Quadruple Alliance 1658 Event France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Munster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond 1657 Event France and England form alliance against Spain; England gets Dunkirk 1643 Event Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form United Colonies of New England 1636 Event City of Providence, Rhode Island form 1633 Event Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn 1571 Event Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League 1557 Event 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form 1531 Event Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union 1526 Event Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac 1526 Event Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) 1525 Event Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau 1167 Event Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
