The European Council was declared a separate institution from the Council, also chaired by a permanent president, and the different Council configurations were mentioned in the treaties for the first time.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

The Commission on Restructure, chaired by Granville T. Walker, held its first meeting on October 30 & November 1, 1962.

At age 24, Fermi took a professorship at the University of Rome ( one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy ) which he won in a competition whose selection committee was chaired by Professor Orso Mario Corbino, director of the Institute of Physics.

In 1890, Cantor was instrumental in founding the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung and chaired its first meeting in Halle in 1891, where he first introduced his diagonal argument ; his reputation was strong enough, despite Kronecker's opposition to his work, to ensure he was elected as the first president of this society.

Kuala Lumpur was the site of the first East Asia Summit in 2005, and Malaysia has chaired ASEAN, the OIC, and the NAM in the past.

He wrote one of the first pamphlets explaining Conservative ideology in 1946, and in 1988 he chaired the Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism which produced the official statement of Conservative ideology " Emet Ve-Emunah ".

From 1954, Rolf Nevanlinna chaired the committee which set about the first computer project in Finland.

Finn Trosby of Telenor chaired the draft group through its first 3 years, in which the design of SMS was established.

He attended Western Kentucky University where his father chaired the music department, then transferred to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in 1968, but later dropped out to make his first feature.

It is chaired by Head of the Home Civil Service and consists of all first permanent secretaries and other selected permanent secretaries and directors general.

Leading the merger effort were Elmer Kelm, the head of the Minnesota Democratic Party and founding chairman of the DFL party ; Elmer Benson, effectively the head of the Farmer-Labor Party by virtue of his leadership of its dominant left-wing faction ; and rising star Hubert H. Humphrey, who chaired the Fusion Committee that accomplished the union and then went on to chair its first state convention.

He chaired the International Polar Commission in 1879 together with Karl Weyprecht, founding the first International Polar Year 1882 / 83 and the Antarctic Year 1901.

In September 2007, Richard Branson chaired the jury of the first Picnic Green Challenge, a € 500, 000 award for best new green initiative, set up by the Dutch " Postcode Loterij " ( postcode lottery ) and the PICNIC Network of creative professionals.

* Jim Vickerman ( born 1931 ) long-time Minnesota State Senator, first elected in 1986, chaired the Senate's State and Local Government Operations, Rules and Administration, and Agriculture, Veterans and Gaming committees before retiring in 2011.

* During the first day of the summit, the speakers will present their respective papers comprising significant inputs from their respective sectors, while on the second day, the participants will break out into 12 groups ( chaired by a Justice ) and take part in a workshop.

It was designed by the Guernsey Flag Investigation Committee chaired by the then Deputy Bailiff Graham Dorey and first flew in the island on 15 February 1985.

An international jury, chaired by Professor Daniel Roche ( Collège de France, Paris ), and formed by Professors Jean Boutier and Alain Dewerpe ( France ), Peter Jones ( UK ), Marcello Verga ( Italy ) and Bartolomé Yun Casalila ( Spain ), gave the first prize to Italian historian Beatrice Palmero.

Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.

During this time, he was appointed first, on April 2, 1979, to the Cabinet chaired by Joe Clark ( as Minister of Energy, Mines, and Resources ), and then to that headed by Brian Mulroney ( as Minister of Justice ) on June 30, 1986, the same year he was called to the bar of Ontario.

The largest of these were the Shankill and Woodvale Defence Associations, with other groups based in East Belfast, the Hammer and Roden Street The first meeting was chaired by Billy Hull, with Alan Moon as its vice-chair, but Moon was quickly replaced by Jim Anderson and left the organisation by its formal launch in September.

This farmers " co-op " was founded in 1919 under the leadership of local farmer Con O ' Brien of Killickane, who chaired the co-op for its first 40 years and then became Honorary Life President until his death in 1968.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

Among them were the minutes of a Cabinet Eastern Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, which was held on 5 December 1918.

On the meeting of December 8, the presidium of VChK was elected of five members, and chaired by Dzerzhinsky.

At the end of November, a meeting was held in the rooms of Canon John Collins, chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, to launch the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

Every two years the meeting is held in a different member state, and is chaired by that nation's respective Prime Minister or President, who becomes the Commonwealth Chairperson-in-Office.

Soon after the arrests, a high level meeting was chaired by Yahya Khan.

In July 1774, he chaired the meeting at which the " Fairfax Resolves " were adopted, which called for the convening of a Continental Congress, among other things.

He chaired a town meeting that passed a resolution opposing the Boston Port Act.

At the 2012 WSIA Summit in Snow board of directors meeting the creation of a parasail committee chaired by Daytona Beach Parasail's president, Matthew Dvorak was created.

* October 25 – St. Cuthbert's Society, University of Durham is founded after a general meeting, chaired by the Reverend Hastings Rashdall.

Ahtisaari briefed Contact Group foreign ministers on 20 September 2006, in New York City at a meeting chaired by U. S. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.

Daley chaired his final city council meeting on Wednesday morning, May 11, 2011.

Quaker James Mott was well enough to attend, and he chaired the morning meeting ; it was still too radical a concept that a woman serve as chair in front of both men and women.

Each cabinet meeting is chaired by the Prime Minister.

His commitment to the system was such that he chaired every Council meeting he could attend ( 329 of a total of 366 ).

When he chaired a meeting, they had to represent his point of view or else all interdepartmental matters would be outside his control.

At a February 25, 1981, meeting chaired by Meese, Cabinet-level heads of the major foreign affairs agencies agreed on a plan to establish three Senior Interdepartmental Groups ( SIGs ) on foreign, defense, and intelligence problems, chaired respectively by the Secretaries of State and Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence.

With the goal of reforming the government to be more efficient and true to the Communist ideal, Liu himself chaired the enlarged Politburo meeting that officially began the Cultural Revolution.

In 308 the Emperor emeritus Diocletian chaired a historic meeting with his co-emperors Maximian and Galerius in Carnuntum to solve the rising tensions within the tetrarchy.