In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the influential Bourbaki group.

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

Under Abdülaziz's reign, Turkey's first postage stamps were issued in 1863, and Turkey joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875 as a founding member.

It is a founding member of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ( Rio Treaty ).

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

This influence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty and ended when Itten resigned in late 1922.

* Beeb Birtles, a singer-songwriter and a founding member of Little River Band.

Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.

He is best known as a founding member of and lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic.

Chile is a founding member of the United Nations, the Union of South American Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Cuba is currently a lead country on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is a founding member of the organization known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a member of the Latin American Integration Association and the United Nations.

It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers ' Union ( EBCU ).

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

The Xinhai Revolution ultimately succeeded with the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, and Chiang became a founding member of the KMT.

Neil is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the album Woodface.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

Eastman is credited as a founding member of the ACLU, but her role as founder of the NCLB may have been largely ignored by posterity due to her personal differences with Baldwin.

Denmark has been a member of NATO since its founding in 1949, and membership in NATO remains highly popular.

The Disciples continues to relate to the National Council of Churches, of which it was a founding member.

A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

The DPP is a member of Liberal International and a founding member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats.

Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

* July 29 – Motown Records releases " Reflections ," the first single by the group's new billing, " Diana Ross & The Supremes " and after firing founding member Florence Ballard ; Ballard, nevertheless, sings on the record and appears on the vinyl's cover alongside group members Ross and Wilson because the song was recorded before her dismissal.

Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman ( June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976 ) was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown group The Supremes.

Williams is noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the Motown group The Temptations.

Founded in 1960 while the group's founding members performed together at their high school's glee club, they eventually were signed to Motown Records ' Tamla label in 1961.

* Eddie Kendricks ( Edward James Kendrick, 1939 – 1992 ), Motown recording artist and founding member of The Temptations

Elbridge " Al " Bryant ( September 28, 1939 – October 26, 1975 ) was an American tenor, and one of the founding members of Motown singing group The Temptations.

1986Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme is the name of a 1986 autobiography that features the memoirs of Mary Wilson, one of the founding members of Motown singing trio The Supremes.

Barbara Diane Martin ( born 1943 ) in Detroit, Michigan is an African-American singer ; better known for being one of the original founding members of Motown singing group The Supremes.

Among the early highlights were the musician and dancer Hilário Jovino Ferreira — responsible for the founding of several blocks of afoxé and Carnival's ranchos — and Tias Baianas, a term given to the female descendants of Bahian slaves.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, medical researchers used the presence of the hymen, or lack thereof, as founding evidence of physical diseases such as " womb-fury ", i. e. ( female ) hysteria.

With regard to the history and purpose of the founding, one must take into account that this " organisation and its female counterpart ( YWCA ) were established to provide low-cost housing in a safe Christian environment for rural young men and women journeying to the cities.

In the early 1990s, because the vast majority of the students of the university were male, an initiative to increase the number female students resulted in founding a separate emancipation commission.

A by-product of this gig was founding vocalist Gay Woods rejoining the band fulltime, partly because Prior was experiencing vocal problems, and for a while Steeleye toured with two female singers, and released the album Time 1996, their first new studio album in seven years.

The founding of Mombasa is associated with two rulers: Mwana Mkisi ( female ) and Shehe Mvita.

The founding of the School of Nursing is usually linked to Johns Hopkins ' statements in his March 1873 instruction letter to the trustees that " I desire you to establish, in connection with the hospital, a training school for female nurses.

In 1998, she took on additional responsibilities as the founding director of Princeton's multi-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, while continuing to study how male and female genomes are packaged and the consequences of the differences for regulating embryo growth.

Within months of the founding of the Islamic Republic the 1967 Family Protection Law was repealed, female government workers began to observe Islamic dress code, women were barred from becoming judges, beaches and sports were sex-segregated, the marriage age for girls was reduced to 9 and married women were barred from attending regular schools.

The daughter of a liberal-minded civil servant whose pacifist tendencies made him welcome the end of the Habsburg Empire and the founding of the republic in 1918, Lihotzky became the first female student at the Kunstgewerbeschule ( today University of Applied Arts Vienna ), where renowned artists such as Josef Hoffmann, Anton Hanak or Oskar Kokoschka were teaching.

She later became one of over 800, 000 women in the military service, founding three female air regiments which would eventually fly over 30, 000 sorties in World War II.

For example the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) and the Leander Rowing Club in England had both been male-only establishments since their founding in 1787 and 1818, respectively, but both opened their doors to female members at the end of the 20th century at least partially due to the requirements of the United Kingdom Lottery Sports Fund.

The emblem was designed by Lin Huiyin, a female architect, with her colleagues from the Department of Architecture in Tsinghua University: Li Zongjin, Mo Zongjiang, Zhu Changzhong, also her husband Liang Sicheng, in a competition held at the founding of the People's Republic of China.

" The founding Guerrilla Girls spoke out against the curator's statement and museum's lack of female artist coverage by placing posters throughout SoHo.

The founding stage begins in the spring when a solitary female ( the " foundress ") or a small group of related females initiates the construction of a nest.

Daddy Warbucks sired the founding bi-color female Fugianna, and Blackie sired Buckwheat, a dark brown / black Burmese-like female.

Since its founding in 1982, WINS has been providing female public school students with hands-on science classes, scientific literacy and skill-building activities, and opportunities for personal growth in a uniquely nurturing setting.

In 1965, along with 32 other female students and 4 female faculty, she became a founding member of the Delta Nu Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota.

She early committed herself to the protection of the environment, in particular the oceans, and was one of the founding members – and for a long time the only female member – of the Club of Rome.

The Fall of Angels, 400 years later, details the arrival of the Angels and the founding of the order mages and the female dominated city of Westwind.

Battlelore's first demo Warrior's Tale was released in 1999, the same year of the founding of the group, but Battlelore attracted the attention of the Austrian record label Napalm Records only after the publication of the second demo Dark Fantasy in 2000, which featured for the first time long standing members Kaisa Jouhki as female singer, Henri Vahvanen on drums and Maria Honkanen on keyboards.

Central Airlines, otherwise notable for hiring Helen Richey, the first female commercial pilot in the U. S., became PAL's main competitor after its founding in 1934.