Before leaving Prestige, however, Davis had to fulfill his obligations during two days of recording sessions in 1956.

Before the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as did many young bands around 1956.

Before his death in 1924, Lenin, while describing Trotsky as " distinguished not only by his exceptional abilities – personally he is, to be sure, the most able man in the present Central Committee ", and also maintaining that " his non-Bolshevik past should not be held against him ", criticized him for " showing excessive preoccupation with the purely administrative side of the work ", and also requested that Stalin be removed from his position of General Secretary, but his notes remained suppressed until 1956.

Before its formation, TCN-9 was then affiliated with HSV-7 ( due to the fact that they were both Australia's first television stations, having been opened in 1956 ), and GTV-9's sister affiliate was ATN-7.

Before November 1956, there was no permanent human structure at the South Pole, and very little human presence in the interior of Antarctica at all.

Before joining the Cowboys, Schramm was part of the Los Angeles Rams from 1947 to 1956.

** Before My Fair Lady began its six-year, 2717 performance run at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in 1956, that theatre was thought to be cursed., It had been switched back and forth several times between being a motion picture theatre and a live stage theatre.

The 1956 film I've Lived Before was inspired by her story.

Before Highfields School was founded in 1982, when the tripartite education system in Matlock ended, there were two secondary schools in Matlock ; Charles White Secondary Modern School ( founded in 1956, and named after two local MPs, father and son, the latter of who died in 1956 ) and Ernest Bailey's Grammar School ( founded in 1924 and named after its wealthy founder ).

* James W. Cortada, Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865 – 1956 ( Studies in Business and Technology ), ISBN 0-691-05045-7

Before Wiseman's publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, Thiele had determined from Biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem and its king Jeconiah occurred in the spring of 597 BC, whereas Kenneth Strand points out that other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

* A Kiss Before Dying ( 1956 )

Before then, Mississippi had not supported the official Democratic candidate since 1956 ( it voted for George Wallace in 1968 ).

Before 1956, although no permanent post of chairman existed, the three service chiefs took it in turn to act as chairman at meetings.

Before 1957, Tōkyō ’ s red-light districts had flourished as legally-licensed centers for sex workers but, armed with a new constitution and an Equal Rights amendment, post-occupation Japanese women's Christian groups, etc., successfully lobbied the Diet to pass the Prostitution Prevention Law in 1956.

Before coming to the U. N., Brahimi, who represented the National Liberation Front in Jakarta during Algeria's 1956 – 1961 independence movement, was an Arab League official ( 1984 – 1991 ) and the Algerian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1991 until 1993.

Before his 1956 budget speech, a journalist from the Montreal Gazette played a joke on a colleague from La Presse by pretending that he had received an advance copy of the budget by mistake.

Before he was elected as Commissioner of Central Committee of CCP in the 8th National Congress of CPC in 1956, Wang went to Moscow for medical treatment and would never return.

* The Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was Before the Overcoming, 1956 at Paris, 1959, Florida Atlantic University 1990 reprint: ISBN 0-8130-0987-1

Before he moved to Chicago in 1956, Howard had developed a national reputation as a Mississippi civil rights leader, surgeon, and entrepreneur.

Templeman won all three Night Before the 500 midget car features at the 16th Street Speedway in Indianapolis in 1956.

Before his death, Carroll encountered some legal trouble over copyright and ownership issues, regarding his book of old photographs of Glenn Gould ( Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man, 1994 ) which he had snapped in 1956 as part of a magazine article.

Before 1956, the shield was identical, but the surrounding features were different.

Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.

Before the league was started, there were strong rumors that the NBA would purchase the CBA, and call it its developmental league, as the Continental Basketball Association was its " minor league " affiliate for years.

Before the Hornets were eliminated from the playoffs, the NBA approved a deal for the team to move to New Orleans following the season.

Before the Hornets were eliminated from the playoffs, the NBA approved the deal.

Before the 2011-12 NBA season, the Hornets were pondering trade offers for Chris Paul.

Before being drafted into the NBA in 2000, Najera received rave reviews from scouts, who boasted on Najera's quick first step and extraordinary rebounding ability.

Before the 2004 NBA Draft, Gordon thought that he would be drafted anywhere from 7th to 12th, but as the draft got closer he claimed to have an inkling that the Bulls might draft him third as they did with Michael Jordan 20 years earlier in the 1984 NBA Draft.

Before the 1991 – 92 NBA and NHL seasons, a new, modern scoreboard was installed, replacing the one that had been in use since the building opened in 1967.

Before the 2001 – 2002 NBA season, he was signed by the San Antonio Spurs.

Before that, while still Knicks head coach Brown was paired with Brent Musburger during the 1985 NBA Playoffs.

Before 1980, the Phillies had appeared in only two other World Series, in and, and the Eagles had won no NFC conference championships since the 1966 agreement that had created the Super Bowl, while the 76ers won NBA titles in both Philadelphia and in their previous incarnation, the Syracuse Nationals.

Before working for Paradox, he was an employee of Funcom where he worked as a programmer on the Sega Mega Drive console with games like Nightmare Circus and NBA Hangtime.

Before the 1983 – 84 season, the Celtics had repeatedly lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Playoffs, mainly because physical Sixers guard Andrew Toney routinely caused problems for their defensively fragile backcourt.

Before joining TNT in 2004, Aldridge reported for ESPN for eight years, primarily covering the NBA while occasionally doing National Football League pieces.

Before joining the NBA, O ' Brien was the United States Postmaster General under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968.

Before going to the United States, Čabarkapa played for KK Beopetrol and KK Budućnost Podgorica ( on a team with fellow NBA player Aleksandar Pavlović ) in the Yugoslavia.

Before the 2005-06 trade deadline, he was traded by the Nets to the New Orleans Hornets and was named to the 2000-2001 NBA All-Rookie team as a member of the Golden State Warriors.

Before his NBA career, he originally committed to play at the University of Kansas, but decided to enter the NBA directly from Washington Union High School in his hometown of Fresno, California, and was picked by the Utah Jazz with the 23rd selection of the 2000 NBA Draft.

Before playing in the NBA, Ha played for Yonsei University and Samil Commercial School in South Korea.

Before the 2010 – 11 NBA season, it was announced that Gus Johnson was let go by MSG Network, the television flagship station for the New York Knicks.

Before the season even began, Tarpley violated the league's substance abuse policy for the third time and was banned from the NBA for life.