Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

Having reached the requisite standard, Prince Harry attended the Defence Helicopter Flying School at RAF Shawbury, where he joined brother Prince William.

Having thus become a Privatdozent, Weber joined the University of Berlin's faculty, lecturing and consulting for the government.

Having joined the Liberal Party only in 1965, he was still considered an outsider as well as too radical and outspoken.

Having joined Ibrahim in 1534, Suleiman made a push towards Persia, only to find the Shah sacrificing territory instead of facing a pitched battle, resorting to harassment of the Ottoman army as it proceeded along the harsh interior.

Having joined the Council of Europe as a full member in 1988, San Marino held the rotating chair of the organisation during the first half of 1990.

Having ended his international career, Grace then began the last phase of his overall first-class career when he joined the new London County Cricket Club, based at Crystal Palace Park, which played first-class matches between 1900 and 1904.

Having now changed his appearance to mimic that of the CAT captain, Horza witnesses a game of " Damage ", which Kraiklyn has joined in the hopes of winning enough to make up the losses from his foolhardy expeditions with the crew.

Having heard of Sweyn's defeat by Magnus, Harald met up with his fellow exile in Sweden ( who was also his nephew ), as well as with the Swedish king Anund Jacob, and the three joined forces against Magnus.

Having joined up with Stig O ' Hara ( a guitarist of no fixed hairstyle ), they started playing as a trio.

Having already appeared as a musical guest and then host of Saturday Night Live, McKean joined the cast in 1994 and remained a cast member until 1995.

Having defeated the Fara Sabakh and Fara Sandial, he joined the two countries together ( hence: Sabakh-Sandial ) and ruled it.

Having entered the Capuchin order, after a brief period of service at Kilkenny, he joined the mission in Cork.

Having been defeated twice in recent memory by France, and being keen on revenge, Austria joined the coalition a few months later.

Having at last returned to complete his college degree, he earned the Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922, and joined the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Having joined the Fourth Crusade in about 1201, he distinguished himself at the sieges of Constantinople and elsewhere.

Having obtained a solid grounding in Talmud, Hutner joined a group of the Slabodka yeshiva that established a new yeshiva in Hebron.

Having been joined by the River Etherow, the Goyt joins the River Tame at Stockport, forming the River Mersey.

Having briefly joined the Royalist army, he went abroad to avoid further involvement in the English Civil War.

* Having a skeleton of phalanges, joined by hinge-like joints that provide flexion toward the palm of the hand

Having buried his wife Jane ( Purdon ) and two sons ( of their 20 children ) in the family vault at St. Patrick ’ s, Adam Loftus died at his Episcopal Palace in Kevin Street “ worn out with age ” and joined his family in the same vault.

Having been named as his father's representative in England in 1345 and again in 1346, Lionel joined an expedition into France in 1355, but his chief energies were reserved for the affairs of Ireland.

Having been engaged in continual warfare in the field for two years, without holiday or accommodation, he was showing considerable signs of strain, and was joined in South Africa by his wife.

Having already found the benefits of turbochargers on several race cars and the 1975 911 Turbo, Porsche chose to use this technology for the 924, eventually introducing the 924 Turbo as a 1978 model.

Having spent time in London and other overseas cities, she began working as a typist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney in 1978.

Having extricated himself from a mire of contractual difficulties Beefheart emerged with this new album, in 1978, on the Warner Bros label.

Having lived under cover in various parts of the Middle East and Europe, in 1978 he married Georgina Rizk, a Lebanese celebrity who had been Miss Universe seven years earlier in 1971.

Having overcome personal issues and " writer's block ", Split Enz entered Manor Studios in November 1978, where Elton John had recorded his albums in the few years prior, to record a new album with producer Mallory Earl.

Having gained enough financial support from their music again, the group returned to Australia in late 1978 to see family and friends and also performed in various Australasian locations.

Having credentials as an activist, legislator, and " hero " in a hostage crisis, as well as an early endorsement from the Washington Post, Barry followed in Washington's mayoralty when its first elected mayor, Walter Washington, fell out of political favor in the 1978 election.

Having been High Sheriff of Somerset from 1978 to 1979, he was made a life peer in 1988 as Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewett in the County of Avon, and sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher.

Having appeared in the 1978 British slapstick comedy Rosie Dixon-Night Nurse ; her first major film role was playing the romantic lead in Quadrophenia in 1979.

Having been asked to appear in a song and dance routine on their 1978 Christmas show, the comedians instead performed the routine with a look-a-like, whose face was never seen on camera.

Having lost a sizeable chunk of their membership had long since been lost to the National Front, the Action Party gave up electoral politics and, in 1978, became the Action Society which acted as a publishing house rather than a political party.

Having been appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph Califano, in April 1977, in the next two-plus years Kennedy and the FDA dealt with issues such as the fallout from the attempt to ban saccharin and worked on provisions of the proposed Drug Regulation Reform Act of 1978.

Having previously directed Sixth District Congressman Bill Harsha's re-election campaigns to Congress in 1976 and 1978, McEwen ran for Harsha's seat when he retired in 1980.

Having been predicted by Thomas Gold in 1948, its existence was first demonstrated experimentally by David Kemp in 1978 and otoacoustic emissions have since been shown to arise by a number of different cellular mechanisms within the inner ear.

Having attended The Judd School between 1978 and 1985, he studied at Canterbury Art College 1985 – 1986, and graduated in 1989 in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, where he was in the same year as Damien Hirst.

* You're Still Having Fun, Channel 7's The One ( 1977 – 1978 ; localized version of ABC ad campaign )

Having set around 5, 000 puzzles between 1930 and 1978, Bell is credited with helping to establish its distinctive cryptic clue style.

Having appeared in minor matches for the Netherlands since 1972, Lubbers came to England in 1978 and played once for the Lancashire second XI and seven times for Derbyshire seconds, but failed to break through to the first team and in fact was never to play first-class cricket.