Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

Before 1974, Chemung County was governed by a board of supervisors.

Before 1974, that role had been filled by Famagusta which is now located in the Turkish controlled part of the island which is not recognised as a legal port by any country except Turkey.

Before 1974, NFL teams kicked off from the 40 ; starting in 1974, the NFL moved its kickoffs back to the 35, and twenty years later, the kickoff line was pushed back to the 30.

Before moving to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the Pacers played their games at Market Square Arena from 1974 – 1999 and at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum ( currently known as the Pepsi Coliseum ) from 1967 – 1974.

Before retirement, in 1974, he starred in La Mary, a hit movie directed by Daniel Tinayre.

He was also the voice of Father Mouse in the 1974 Christmas special Twas the Night Before Christmas, and sang the song Give Your Heart a Try in that production.

Before 1974, Morphou was an almost entirely Greek Cypriot community.

Before 1974, St Ives Borough Council was the principal local authority for what now forms the civil parish of St Ives.

Before 1974 Ilkley was an urban district, a type of local government district.

In 1974, Diamond released the album Serenade, from which " Longfellow Serenade " and " I've Been This Way Before " were issued as singles.

Before the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 Wisbech was a municipal borough ; it is now a civil parish in the Fenland District.

Before entering politics, Morgan worked as an Industrial Development Officer for South Glamorgan County Council from 1974 to 1980.

* Where Have I Known You Before ( 1974, Polydor )

* 1974: Long Before Our Mothers Cried ( Strata-East Records )

Before the year 1924 it started at 6 and at 7 between 1924 and 1974.

Before 1974 all crimes and offences were prosecuted at the suit of ( after action taken by ) the Attorney General.

Before 1974, the land the airport sits on was largely owned by the United States Air Force, which operated an air force base there.

( 1946 ); “ Essentials for Nigeria ’ s Survival .” ( 1965 ); “ Before Us Lies The Open Grave ” ( 1947 ); “ The Future of Pan-Africanism ” ( 1961 ); “ The Realities of African Unity ” ( 1965 ); “ Origins of the Nigerian Civil War ” ( 1969 ); I Believe in a One Nigeria ( 1969 ); Peace Proposals for Ending the Nigerian Civil War ( 1969 ); Dialogue on a New Capital for Nigeria ( 1974 ); “ Creation of More States in Nigeria, A Political Analysis ” ( 1974 ); Democracy with Military Vigilance ( 1974 ); “ Reorientation of Nigerian Ideologies: lecture on 9 December 1976, on eve of the launching of the UNN Endowment Fund ” ( 1976 ); Our Struggle for Freedom ; Onitsha Market Crisis ( 1976 ); Let Us Forgive Our Children, An appeal to the leaders and people of Onitsha during the market crisis ( 1976 ); A Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); Civil War Soliloquies: More Collection of Poems ( 1977 ); “ Themes in African Social and Political Thought ” ( 1978 ); Restoration of Nigerian Democracy ( 1978 ); Matchless Past Performance: My Reply to Chief Awolowo ’ s Challenge ( 1979 ); A Matter of Conscience ( 1979 ); Ideology for Nigeria: Capitalism, Socialism or Welfarism?

Before the game begins, each player creates his or her player character and records the details ( described below ) on a character sheet.

* Before the printing press, the state of the written records of cases rendered the stare decisis doctrine utterly impracticable.

Before Mackenzie's death almost all Associates records had been deleted.

Before the 20th century, the Zhou Dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) was the earliest Chinese dynasty that could be verified from its own records.

Before computerisation replaced manual filing systems in large fingerprint operations, manual fingerprint classification systems were used to categorize fingerprints based on general ridge formations ( such as the presence or absence of circular patterns on various fingers ), thus permitting filing and retrieval of paper records in large collections based on friction ridge patterns alone.

Before his 22nd birthday, he had set many records for high scoring, some of which still stand, and became Australia's sporting idol at the height of the Great Depression.

Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organisation.

Before the end of October 1969, several records were released on the subject — including " The Ballad of Paul " by the Mystery Tour, " Brother Paul " by Billy Shears and the All Americans, and " So Long Paul " by Werbley Finster, a pseudonym for José Feliciano.

Before a hearing date was set, the state issued a subpoena for much of the Association's records, including bank statements and leases, but most notably the names and addresses of the " agents " or " members " of the Association in Alabama.

Before 1910, they also performed on vaudeville and minstrel show records, one of which, " The Camp Meeting Jubilee ", released in 1904 as Victor no.

Before the government's registration system was created, evidence of births and / or baptisms ( and also marriages and death or burials ) was dependent on the events being recorded in the records of the Church of England or in those of other various churches – not all of which maintained such records or all types of those records.

Before this eventuated World Class were almost the sole performers in the club, managed by Alonzo who smooth-talked his way into obtaining a record deal from CBS Records for the group and was using money generated from sales to build an inexpensive four-track recording studio at the back of the club to cut records for his acts.

Before the 5th century A. D. the details of its history which can be gleaned from surviving records and literature are exceedingly meagre, obscure and confusing.

Before a formula for gangsta rap had developed, artists such as the New York City-based Boogie Down Productions and Los Angeles native Ice-T implemented detailed observations of " street life ", while the chaotic, rough sounding production style of Public Enemy's records set new standards for hip hop production.

) Before that, sparse records of Slavic religion were mostly written by non-Slavic Christian missionaries who were uninterested in accurately portraying pagan beliefs.

Before World War I, Beka also made gramophone records for the United Kingdom market under the Beka-Grand Records label.

Before 1904, Earp returned to Colton where city records show that he along with three others unsuccessfully petitioned the city leaders to repeal a temperance law that only allowed one saloon in town.

Before Jaws set box office records in the summer of 1975, successful films such as Quo Vadis, The Ten Commandments, Gone With the Wind, and Ben-Hur were called blockbusters based purely on the amount of money earned at the box office.

Before the 5th century A. D. the details of its history which can be gleaned from surviving records and literature are exceedingly meagre, obscure and confusing.

Before attending New Prep School, Torchetti played for Jamaica Plain High School in the Boston City League, where he set state scoring records, superseding the ones achieved in the late 1960s by the legendary Robbie Ftorek of Needham High School.

Before disbanding in 1990, Youth of Today released two 7 " EPs ( one later remixed and released as a 12 ") and two LPs, widely considered to be some of the most influential American hardcore records of their time.

Before Lattimore was called as witness, investigators for the SISS had seized all of the records of the Institute of Pacific Relations ( IPR ).