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, 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 the year, Arum described UFC President Dana White as " nuts " and " a little too much of a loose cannon " for White's use of a gay slur in reference to an MMA reporter.

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, in the spring and summer of 1968, she attended fundraisers set up by her mother to aid the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic.

* 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 in 1893, Professor McKendrick, of Glasgow, had examined subject and reported unfavourably on the scant knowledge of the special senses displayed by the candidates ; it was in reaction to this that Sir Michael Foster, who had seen the potential in this shy, retiring Bart's man, appointed Rivers as a lecturer and he became Fellow Commoner at St John's College forthwith.

Earlier that day, Boston College football fans had seen their Sugar Bowl-bound team, undefeated and ranked number one in the nation, lose its place to their unranked rival, Holy Cross, in a crushing defeat of 55-12.

Earlier, he was a foundation professor of the then Victoria College of the University of New Zealand from 1899 to 1907.

Earlier, beginning in 1915 and continuing for about a decade, the Woolman School had been created by Philadelphia Hicksites near Swarthmore College ; its head, Elbert Russell, a midwestern recorded minister, tried unsuccessfully to maintain it, but it ended in the late 1920s.

Earlier attempts at purchasing the former campus of Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas and Morristown College in Morristown, Tennessee were also unscuccessful.

Earlier known as Jagirdar College, it was established in 1923 as a school exclusively for the sons of jagirdars and other aristrocats.

Earlier, he was assistant professor of organ and head of the church music department at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and later, the C. F.

Earlier proposal to establish a Government Engineering College in Kalahandi or Koraput region in 1980s was later on shifted to some other part in Orissa for political reasons.

Earlier attempts had been made by the Spanish in what is now Georgia ( San Miguel de Gualdape, 1526 – 27 ; several Spanish missions in Georgia between 1568 and 1684 ), South Carolina ( Santa Elena, 1566 – 87 ), North Carolina ( Joara, 1567 – 68 ) and Virginia ( Ajacán Mission, 1570 – 71 ); and by French in South Carolina ( Charlesfort, 1562 – 63 ).

Earlier protests against the House Committee on Un-American Activities meeting in San Francisco in 1960 had included an iconic scene as protesters were literally washed down the steps inside the Rotunda of San Francisco City Hall with fire hoses.

Earlier modernist examples are the Bauhaus in Dessau ( 1926 ) and the Hallidie Building in San Francisco ( 1918 ).

Earlier that year on May 27, 1974, Brett held the San Diego Padres hitless into the ninth inning before settling for a 2-hit shutout win in the first game of a doubleheader.

Earlier in his career, he had been a member of the San Francisco Giants ' original broadcasting team ( together with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons ) when the Giants moved west from New York in 1958, had called University of California football and basketball games, and had served as the longtime radio play-by-play announcer for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders football team and the San Francisco / Golden State Warriors basketball team.

Earlier in 1897, Aklan fought against the Spaniards with Francisco Castillo and Candido Iban at the helm.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Earlier this month Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with more than 100 leaders of the motion picture industry.

( Earlier the APG had used the name Alliaceae for this group .).

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.

Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.

Earlier, Gongshan had approached Confucius to join him, which Confucius considered at first.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

Earlier, Dai had been involved with the Blue Shirts Society, a fascist-inspired paramilitary group within the Kuomintang, which wanted to expel Western and Japanese imperialists, crush the Communists, and eliminate feudalism.

Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

Earlier dragoon responsibilities for scouting and picket duty had passed to hussars and similar light cavalry corps in the French, Austrian, Prussian, and other armies.

Earlier in the century, Norris had played on one of hockey's early powers, the Montreal HC, nicknamed the " Winged Wheelers.

Earlier, the Scottish philosopher David Hume had put forward a similar view on the difference between facts and values.

Earlier, the emperors had married women from families of the government-holding Soga lords, and women of the imperial clan itself, i. e. various-degree cousins and often even their own sisters ( half-sisters ).

Earlier Imperial sponsorship of Buddhism, beginning with Prince Shōtoku ( 574 – 622 ), had led to a general politicization of the clergy, along with an increase in intrigue and corruption.

Earlier constituent assemblies had written thirteen constitutions ( only ten of which had entered into force ), and the latest had been adopted in 1924.

Earlier pedal harps had a single-action mechanism that allowed strings to play sharpened notes.

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

Earlier submersible work had yielded dismal results.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.