Mr. Martinelli explained that there should be more than enough signatures to assure the scheduling of a vote on the home rule charter and possible election of a nine member charter commission within 70 days.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

Along with the Chicago Bears, the club is one of two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

That team had started as a charter member of the American Association in 1882.

The club is a charter member of the American League, one of four clubs ( with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians ) still located in its original city.

It was established as a charter member in 1894.

The current Detroit club was a charter member when the Western League reorganized for the 1894 season.

Ethiopia was a charter member of the United Nations and took part in UN operations in Korea in 1951 and the Congo in 1960.

When over 100 parliamentarians from the twelve member nations of the Council of Europe came together in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first ever meeting of the Council's Consultative Assembly, drafting a " charter of human rights " and creating a Court to enforce it was high on their agenda.

* After joining the NCAA's Division I in 1977, Evansville was a charter member of the Midwest Collegiate Conference, now known as the Horizon League.

* 1954 – The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.

* Rockne was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a charter member and in the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.

A charter member of the KSČ in 1921, he edited the party's newspaper in Bratislava from 1921 to 1926.

The Kansas City Wizards was a charter member of MLS in 1996 and became the Wizards from 1997 onwards.

It is a charter member of the Organization of African Unity and the West African Monetary Union and also belongs to the Niger Basin Authority and the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the Economic Community of West African States, the Non-Aligned Movement, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

The team later turned professional through 1875, becoming a charter member of the National League in 1876, but were expelled from the N. L.

He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

The club began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League, and spent its first season in Los Angeles, California before moving to San Diego in 1961.

Today, with a growing regional profile, a participant in the SFOR peacekeeping deployment in Bosnia and the KFOR deployment in Kosovo, and a charter World Trade Organization member, Slovenia plays a role on the world stage quite out of proportion to its small size.

From 1960 to 1996, the team was known as the Houston Oilers, an original charter member of the American Football League ( AFL ).

There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.

Waldorf schools receive full or partial governmental funding in some European nations, Australia and in parts of the United States ( as Waldorf method public or charter schools ).

The ICJ judgment was backed up by the United Nations, whose charter potentially allowed sanctions or even the use of force to enforce the court's ruling.

In the United Kingdom and parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, a city is traditionally a settlement with a royal charter.

On June 2, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies ( meaning the Caribbean ) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

According to the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States ( excluding charter ) suffered 1. 31 fatal accidents for every 100, 000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0. 016 for scheduled airline flights.

The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to those territories.

The preamble of the charter provides that the members " reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the equal rights of men and women " and Article 1 ( 3 ) of the United Nations charter states that one of the purposes of the UN is: " to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion ".

Cecil Rhodes presented this concession to persuade the government of the United Kingdom to grant a royal charter to his British South Africa Company ( BSAC ) over Matabeleland, and its subject states such as Mashonaland.

The formation of the United Nations, for example, created a means for the world community to enforce international law upon members that violate its charter through the Security Council.

* In the United States, " municipality " is usually understood as a city, town, village or other local government unit, formed by municipal charter from the state as a municipal corporation.

In 1979, the United States federal government went after Sonny Barger and several members and associates of the Oakland charter of the Hells Angels using RICO.

Minnesota was the first state to have a charter school law and the first charter school in the United States, City Academy High School, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992.

Minnesota was the first state to have a charter school law and the first charter school in the United States, City Academy, opened in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992.

Because the attacks on the United States were judged to be within the parameters of its charter, NATO declared that Article 5 of the NATO agreement was satisfied on September 12, 2001, making the US war on terrorism the first time since its inception that NATO would actually participate in a " hot " war.

* NATO's secretary general, Lord Robertson announces that the United States provided " clear and compelling proof " in oral briefings to NATO al-Qaeda's responsibility who affirm the invocation of the mutual defense clause of the organization's charter.

Penn has three claims to being the first university in the United States, according to university archives director Mark Frazier Lloyd: the 1765 founding of the first medical school in America made Penn the first institution to offer both " undergraduate " and professional education ; the 1779 charter made it the first American institution of higher learning to take the name of " University "; and existing colleges were established as seminaries.

* March 21 – The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issues the charter establishing the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, the first organization of its kind in the United States and founder of the nation's first zoo.

* 1816: The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.

* February 2 – The Supreme Court of the United States under John Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College in the famous Dartmouth College v. Woodward case, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution.