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.

Lester Bowles Pearson presiding at a plenary session of the founding conference of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

The same divergence also presented a problem for the International Organization for Standardization ( Organisation internationale de normalisation ) at its founding in 1947 ; it settled on the short name ISO as a compromise between IOS and OIN.

An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.

Liberia is a founding member of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and is a member of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), African Development Bank ( ADB ), Mano River Union ( MRU ) and the Non-Aligned Movement.

After World War II Luxembourg abandoned its politics of neutrality, when it became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( 1949 ) and the United Nations.

In the context of the Cold War, Luxembourg clearly opted for the West by joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in 1949, thus renouncing its traditional neutrality, which had determined its international policy since the founding of the state.

Mexico is one of the founding members of several international organizations, most notably the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Organization of Ibero-American States, the OPANAL and the Rio Group.

Poland is a founding member of the World Trade Organization and member of the European Union.

Panama is a member of the Organization of American States and was a founding member of the Rio Group.

In 1949, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland became founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for their defense against Germany, the Soviet Union, and all other potential invaders, and these three countries remain members as of 2011.

Slovenia also is a member of all major international financial institutions ( the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ) as well as 40 other international organizations, among them the World Trade Organization, of which it is a founding member.

The Palestinian flag, adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organization upon its founding in 1964

* October 22 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.

Portugal is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ), and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).

Portugal, during this period, was never an outcast, and was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) and the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ).

The Netherlands is a founding member of the European Union, the OECD and the World Trade Organization.

As one of the founding members, Barbados joined the World Trade Organization on 1 January 1995.

She founded the gender unit at the International Centre for Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ) in Kathmandu and was a founding Board Member of the Women's Environment & Development Organization ( WEDO )

The BSSR, along with the Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet Union, were founding members of the United Nations Organization ( UN ) in 1945.

Youth Brigade of Los Angeles were a group from LA who eventually became known for founding the Better Youth Organization ( BYO ), which advanced the hardcore scene and humanist ideals.

Truman's presidency was also eventful in foreign affairs, with the defeat of Nazi Germany and his decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan, the founding of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, the beginning of the Cold War, the Berlin Airlift, and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

He was the founding chairman of the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and founding director of the Center for Injury Control at Rollins School of Public Health, a collaborating center for injury and violence prevention of the World Health Organization.