Earlier in the year, 13-year-old Sarah-Louise Platt ( Tina O ' Brien ) had become pregnant and given birth to a baby girl, Bethany, on 4 June.

Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

Earlier in the year the band had performed at one of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics victory concerts at Whistler Medals Plaza and donated a collection of objects to the Ohio Historical Society including an energy dome, jumpsuit, stickers, and t-shirts.

Earlier that year, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U. S. government's official banking agent in London.

Earlier this year, Wana sold a 31 % stake for € 228m to the partnership of two Kuwaiti companies, mobile operator Zain and Al Ajial Investment Fund Holding, to help finance the roll out of its 15-year 2G GSM network at the end of 2009.

Earlier in the year left-wing councils had protested at Government restriction of their budgets by refusing to set budgets, resulting in a budget crisis in Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council.

Earlier, the guilds of writers had denounced the printing press as " the Devil's Invention ", and were responsible for a 53-year lag between its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in Europe in c. 1440 and its introduction to the Ottoman society with the first Gutenberg press in Istanbul that was established by the Sephardic Jews of Spain in 1493 ( who had migrated to the Ottoman Empire a year earlier, escaping from the Spanish Inquisition of 1492.

Earlier in the year, in January 1882, he had switched on the first steam-generating power station at Holborn Viaduct in London.

Earlier that year, Toland Medical College in San Francisco had agreed to become the University's " Medical Department "; it later evolved into UCSF.

Earlier that year, Osborn had mentioned the animal in a popular press article, under the name " Ovoraptor djadochtari " ( not to be confused with the similarly named Oviraptor ).

Earlier, another Chicago Fire team had played in the short-lived World Football League for one year under the same name.

Earlier that year, she starred in HouseSitter, a screwball comedy with Steve Martin, which was a commercial and critical success.

Earlier in the same year he witnessed a charter of King Ethelred the Unready as Eaduuine dux.

Earlier this year, a dry wind from the Sahara brought down the temperature to as low as in the morning.

Earlier that year, major labor riots broke out in Poland, laying the foundations for Solidarity.

Earlier that same year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is " among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer ... honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice ...".

Earlier in the same year, at the battle of George Square on 31 January, in Glasgow, the city's sheriff was in the process of reading the Riot Act to a crowd of 90, 000 – when the sheet of paper he was reading from was ripped out of his hands by one of the rioters.

Earlier, in 1976, a Special Award was made to Scott Joplin in his centennial year.

Earlier in the game, however, Yastrzemski began the scoring with a home run off left-handed pitcher Ron Guidry, who was having a career year ( 25 wins, 3 loses and a 1. 74 ERA ).

Earlier in the year Parsons had released Safe at Home ( although the principal recording for the album had taken place in mid-1967 ) with the International Submarine Band, which made extensive use of pedal steel and is seen by some as the first true country-rock album.

Earlier that year Witherspoon was chosen to portray June Carter Cash, the second wife of country music singer and songwriter Johnny Cash, in Walk the Line.

Earlier that same year, the team had appeared in the movie Roadhouse Nights, ostensibly based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest.

Earlier that year Richardson had been promoted to Supervisor of Announcers at KTRM.

Earlier in that year of national labor unrest, in central Arizona, the Jerome Deportation took place.

Earlier Christians fighting the Moors, such as Pelayo, could plausibly be described as natives opposing foreign invasion and conquest ; however, by the time most parts of Muslim Iberia were ( re ) conquered by Christian forces, the Muslim population there was centuries old, and much of it undoubtedly composed of converted Iberians rather than migrants from other Muslim lands.

Earlier, Johann Strauss I and Josef Lanner wrote polkas which are either designated as a galop ( quick tempo ) or as a regular polka which may not fall into any of the categories described above.

Earlier critics of the 1933 Banking Act, and of other restrictive banking regulation, argued it did not prevent the return of financial instability beginning in the mid-1960s. Hyman Minsky, a supporter of traditional banking regulation, described the 1966 return of financial instability ( and its increasingly intense return in 1970, 1974, and 1980 ) as the inevitable result of private financial markets, previously repressed by memories of the Great Depression.

Earlier illustrations often described capital as physical items, such as tools, buildings, and vehicles that are used in the production process.

Earlier links as described above were focused on sacrifice rather than romantic love.

Earlier work by the Irish physician Robert Bentley Todd ( 1847 ), Ernest Horn, and Moritz Heinrich Romberg ( 1851 ) had described Tabes dorsalis and noted atrophy of the spinal cord, but in an important paper, Gull also stressed the involvement of the posterior column in paraplegia with sensory ataxia.

Earlier, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Johnson — who has described himself as " pretty much center-left before 9 / 11 "— transformed his blog's discussion of bicycle racing, programming, web design, and the occasional humorous news item into a very active discussion of the War on Terror, Islam and Islamism, Eurabia, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Earlier in 1797, he described his age to George Washington vaguely: " Born Sir at a period, when every American Breast palpitated for freedom, I became early attached to civil Liberty ...."

Earlier attempts based on classical physics are described in the article on classical unified field theories.

Earlier, Matthew Paris had described Silvester as " the king's faithful clerk, dear and close, obtaining the first place in the chancery, where he served him wisely " and certainly Henry would have had the ability to persuade Silvester to accept the bishopric.

Earlier observations described an average radiant of RA = 217 deg, DEC =+ 76 deg, with maximum occurring at a solar longitude of 270. 66 deg ( about December 22 ), with the duration being established as December 17 – 24.

Earlier that day Amoruso's denied the allegations and threatened legal action in an interview to Corriere dello Sport ( an Italian daily sports paper ), The denials were described as " vehement " by the Daily Mail.

Earlier, in the late eighteenth century, when Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, the fourth Nawab of Awadh, attempted to grant the kshatriya title of Raja to a group of influential landed Ayodhya Kurmis, he was thwarted by a united opposition of Rajputs, who were themselves ( as described by Buchanan ), " a group of newcomers to the court, who had been peasant soldiers only a few years before ..." According to historian William Pinch: ( The ) Rajputs of Awadh, who along with brahmans constituted the main beneficiaries of what historian Richard Barnett characterizes as " Asaf's permissive program of social mobility ," were not willing to let that mobility reach beyond certain arbitrary socio-cultural boundaries.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

Earlier, President Ngo Dinh Diem allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc.

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

Earlier, Admiral Burke was involved in the " Revolt of the Admirals ", a near mutiny by the leaders of the Navy in the late 1940s, and was saved from being fired by the intervention of President Harry S. Truman.

Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary and a senior policy adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security and regulatory policy.

Earlier the same day, the Japanese government had broadcast an announcement over Radio Tokyo that " acceptance of the Potsdam Proclamation be coming soon ," and had advised the Allies of the surrender by sending a cable to U. S. President Harry S Truman via the Swiss diplomatic mission in Washington, D. C. A nation-wide broadcast by President Truman was aired at seven o ' clock p. m. ( daylight time in Washington, D. C .) on August 14 announcing the communication and that the formal event was scheduled for September 2.

Earlier in his life, Schundler was a Democrat and was the State Coordinator in New Jersey for Gary Hart's 1984 campaign for President.

Earlier, liberal Republican Robert La Follette, Sr. ran for President as the candidate of the Progressive Party in 1924, while still remaining a Republican in the Senate.

Earlier in an open letter to U. S. President George H. W. Bush he criticized the indifference towards the situation of Kurds.

Earlier President Sloan had properly characterized these efforts as ' intellectual McCarthyism.

Earlier overtures from Harvard President Charles William Eliot towards consolidation of the two schools were rejected or disrupted by Rogers in 1870 and 1878.

Earlier, when it was well known that Brigham Young was a polygamist, the US President appointed him twice as territorial governor and the Senate ratified the appointment.

Earlier, President Ngo Dinh Diem allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc.

Earlier in his career Wood was the personal consulting physician of President Zachary Taylor.

Earlier, he served as Executive Vice President, Programming and Marketing for Showtime / The Movie Channel.

Earlier, Barris spent almost a decade at General Electric Company in a variety of management positions, including Vice President and General Manager at GE Information Services.