On June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress resolved to appoint a committee of 13 to prepare a draft of a constitution for a union of the states.

The committee met repeatedly, and chairman John Dickinson presented their results to the Congress on July 12, 1776.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

On 12 December, the Stationers submitted yet another petition asking for legislation on the issue, and the House of Commons gave three MPs – Spencer Compton, Craven Peyton and Edward Wortley – permission to form a drafting committee.

* June 12 – The world's first Fingerprint Bureau opens in Calcutta ( now Kolkata ), India, after the Council of the Governor General approves a committee report that fingerprints should be used for classification of criminal records.

Thus, the IEEE 802. 12 committee was formed and standardized 100BaseVG.

On July 18, 2008, Purdue University announced that a committee with members from five institutions has investigated 12 allegations of research misconduct by Rusi Taleyarkhan.

A report by John Dower, secretary of the Standing Committee on National Parks, to the Minister of Town and Country Planning in 1945 was followed in 1947 by a Government committee, this time chaired by Sir Arthur Hobhouse, which prepared legislation for national parks, and proposed 12 national parks.

" The committee usually nominates a small number of artists ( 12 in 2010 ) from an increasing number of different genres.

This was due to his international cricket career, many public speaking engagements ( up to 12 a week ) and his responsibilities to the New Zealand Cricket Council coaching committee ( Hadlee was required to do three weeks of fast bowling tuition ).

The Big 12 Conference said it would form a committee to replace Texas A & M with at least one other school.

On October 6, the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors, acting upon a unanimous recommendation of the expansion committee, authorized negotiations with Texas Christian University to become a member of the Conference even though TCU had previously agreed to join the Big East Conference in the near-future.

The committee of 15 ( three women and 12 men ) was led by John Wolfenden ( 1906 – 1985 ) who had previously been headmaster of Uppingham and Shrewsbury and in 1950 became Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading.

After having served in the 8th Route Army during 12 years under General Zhu De's command, he became propaganda chief for the county Party committee in 1947.

On August 12, 2009, Commissioner DiAnne Gove was selected by Republican county committee members to fill the remainder of the term of Daniel Van Pelt in the General Assembly representing the 9th legislative district after Van Pelt had resigned after being arrested on corruption charges.

His thesis was successfully defended on December 12, 1904 ; examination committee members were Johan Brick, Josef Finger, Emanuel Czuber and L. Tetmayer.

Consequently, he was dropped from the NATO " group of 12 " committee that had been drafting NATO's new mission statement.

Elements may include the government's sinister operative from Men in Black, the military bases known as Area 51, RAF Rudloe Manor or Porton Down, a supposed crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, the Rendlesham Forest Incident, a political committee dubbed the " Majestic 12 " or successor of the UK Ministry of Defence's Flying Saucer Working Party ( FSWP ).

Majestic 12 ( or MJ-12 ) is the supposed code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U. S. President Harry S. Truman.

On the 9th Thermidor, however, he took sides against Robespierre, and on 12 September 1794 he was named by the Convention as a member of the executive committee of public instruction.

The act was drafted, rushed through committee, and approved by the House on November 12, 1973, by a vote of 361 – 14 – 60.

The standard known as 1BASE5 was adopted as 802. 3e in 1986 by members of the IEEE 802. 3 standards committee as the Twisted Pair Medium Specification in section 12.

: April 12 A Constituent Assembly, summoned by the provisional committee of pro-Italian notables which has taken over the administration, meets in Tirana and approves a personal union with Italy: Italy's King Victor Emmanuel III is to become the King of Albania.

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

Freda Kirchwey, then editor of The Nation, wrote at the time of her death: " When she spoke to people — whether it was to a small committee or a swarming crowd — hearts beat faster.

Charles Weingartner, one of the founding members of the NCTE committee on Public Doublespeak mentioned: “ people do not know enough about the subject ( the reality ) to recognize that the language being used conceals, distorts, misleads ”.

A steering committee of 27 people was introduced, including four psychologists.

Further, Perutz explained that the report was to a Medical Research Council ( MRC ) committee that had been created in order to " establish contact between the different groups of people working for the Council ".

In 2010, after controversial high school shootings in 2008 prompted government review, a constitutional law committee concluded that people over the age of 20 can receive a permit for semiautomatic handguns.

Under Robespierre the committee initiated the Reign of Terror, during which up to 40, 000 people were executed in Paris, mainly nobles, and those convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal, often on the flimsiest of evidence.

Dejacque " rejected Blanquism, which was based on a division between the ‘ disciples of the great people ’ s Architect ’ and ‘ the people, or vulgar herd ,’ and was equally opposed to all the variants of social republicanism, to the dictatorship of one man and to ‘ the dictatorship of the little prodigies of the proletariat .’ With regard to the last of these, he wrote that: ‘ a dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the most conceited and incompetent, and hence the most anti-revolutionary, thing that can be found ...( It is better to have doubtful enemies in power than dubious friends )’.

The unusual aspect of the orchestra was that, believing that in the ideal Marxist state all people are equal, its members felt that there was no need to be led by the dictatorial baton of a conductor ; instead they were led by a committee.

Sadiq Rahma, technical committee head, who is a member of Al Wefaq said: " The rules we are drawing up are designed to protect the rights of both the families and the Asian bachelors (..) these labourers often have habits which are difficult for families living nearby to tolerate (..) they come out of their homes half dressed, brew alcohol illegally in their homes, use prostitutes and make the neighbourhood dirty (..) these are poor people who often live in groups of 50 or more, crammed into one house or apartment ," said Mr Rahma.

This report, commissioned by the U. S. Congress in 1993, was developed via extensive hearings across the nation from all interested stakeholders, by a committee of talented people.

Perutz also added that the report was addressed to an MRC committee created in order to " establish contact between the different groups of people working for the Council ".

Depending on their roles, those people selected by committee are submitted either to the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, or Secretary of State for Defence for their approval before being sent to the Sovereign for final approval.

In February 2006, a committee of twelve baseball historians elected 17 more people from black baseball to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, twelve players and five executives.

Accommodating the influx of people into St. Moritz was a difficult task for the organizing committee.

The current government is promoting independence – by means of a general election ( that is, the government of the day would have the power to decide whether to go independent or not ) as opposed to a referendum ( a direct vote by the people ) – by establishing a committee to investigate ( though the committee is notably staffed with party members, and without representation by the opposition party ).

The Polanyi Center was established without much publicity in October 1999, initially consisting of two people – Dembski and a like-minded colleague, Bruce L. Gordon, who were hired directly by Sloan without going through the usual channels of a search committee and departmental consultation.

As the recording executives chosen for the Walk of Fame ( Tabinda Walk ) committee worked at compiling a list of important recording industry people who might qualify for a Walk of Fame star, they realized there were many more people who were leaders in their business who would never earn a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

In 1961 Szasz gave testimony before a United States Senate committee in which he argued that the use of mental hospitals to incarcerate people defined as insane violated the general assumptions of patient-and-doctor relationships and turned the doctor into a warden and a keeper of a prison.

The designation of each country's official submission has to be done by an organization, jury or committee composed of people from the film industry, whose members ' names must be sent to the Academy.

" Multiple attempts by the Republic of China to rejoin the UN, no longer to represent all of China but just the people of the territories it governs, have not made it past committee, largely due to diplomatic maneuvering by the PRC, which claims Resolution 2758 has settled the matter.

Umar, on his death bed formed a committee of six people to choose the next Caliph from amongst themselves.