* 1947 – Maddy Prior, English singer ( Steeleye Span, Silly Sisters, and The Carnival Band )

Prior to 1947 the Indians played most of their games at League Park, and occasionally played weekend games at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

Prior to the independence as a modern state in 1947, the country was both independent and under various colonial empires throughout different time periods.

Prior to the creation of Pakistan in 1947, modern-day Bangladesh was part of ancient, classical, medieval and colonial India.

Prior to this, between 1947 and 1998, it was the capital of the Bydgoszcz Voivodeship, and before that, of the Pomeranian Voivodeship between 1945 and 1947.

Prior to the creation of the Gordon Heights Fire Department ( GHFD ) in 1947, there had been no fire services in the community, dating back to its founding in 1927.

I. M. Bochenski ( Turin, 1947 ) – also quoted in Prior 1976

Prior to the 1943 Quebec Conference, a joint British-American planning team produced a plan (" Appreciation and Plan for the Defeat of Japan ") which did not call for an invasion of the Japanese home islands until 1947 – 1948.

Prior to the creation of the ward on August 1, 1947, the area had been part of Itabashi.

* Maddy Prior ( b. 1947 ), English singer

Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of his or her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies ( appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry the Most Noble Order of the Garter and the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle had been made on ministerial advice since the 18th century and were not restored to the personal gift of the sovereign until 1946 and 1947, respectively ).

Prior to the passage of the Taft – Hartley Act by Congress over President Harry S. Truman's veto in 1947, unions and employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act could lawfully agree to a closed shop, in which employees at unionized workplaces must be members of the union as a condition of employment.

Prior to the advent of the health board system, the 1947 Health Act was the principal legislation on the State's role in the provision of healthcare in Ireland ; this was the act that served as the legislative basis for the Mother and Child Scheme, which was later withdrawn under Church and doctor opposition.

German graduate student Fritz Prior developed solid state gas chromatography in 1947.

Prior to its ban in the early 1970s, doctors prescribed DES to as many as five million pregnant women to block spontaneous abortion, an off-label use of this medication prior to 1947.

Prior to 1947 he was employed by the broadcast's sponsor, Sunoco.

Prior to that date, Broward County had been part of area code 305 for 48 years ; 305 had entered service in 1947 as one of the original area codes, but numerous splits over the years had made 305 more or less coextensive with the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area.

* Maddy Prior ( 1947 )

Prior to the partition of India in 1947, Zafarullah Khan drafted the Pakistan Resolution and presented the Muslim League's view of the future boundaries of Pakistan to Sir Cyril Radcliffe, the man designated to decide the boundaries between India and Pakistan.

Prior to coming to Buffalo, he worked as a mathematician and supervisor in various departments at the Naval Research Laboratory from 1947.

Prior to their escape to Austria, they married on June 27, 1947, and formed an itinerant troupe playing marionettes.

Prior to 1947, it was a part of the Jammu and Kashmir area, it comes under the Jammu section which is part of the greater dispute between India and Pakistan.

Prior to 1947 he also played pro basketball briefly in the American Basketball League ; he then became the head basketball and baseball coach at his alma mater.

Prior to meeting Mallowan, Christie had not had any extensive brushes with archaeology, but once the two married they made sure to only go to sites where they could work together.

# Prior to being drawn and enabled, one is unable to believe … able only to resist.

Prior to more general use of such technology these wheelchair users could only use specialist paratransit mobility buses.

Prior to 1931, as soon as the first necessary run to win the game scored, the play was over, and the batter was credited only with the number of bases needed to drive in the winning run.

Prior to 1970, writers only voted for the best pitcher and used a formula of one point per vote.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

Prior to the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to militaries capable of firing many projectiles in a short space of time were mass-firing volley weapons like the French Reffye mitrailleuse in 1870 – 71, or field cannons firing canister, much like a very large shotgun.

Prior to the Babylonian exile, the names of only four months are referred to in the Tanakh:

Prior to the accident he had captained England 22 times, and, being only 27, was expected to lead them in the 1966 World Cup ; but he was never again selected for the national team.

Prior to Lesotho's independence in 1966, the only paved road in the country was the Kingsway in the capital, Maseru, between the Mejametalana Airport and the Royal Palace.

Prior to 1990, the only specialty performing laparoscopy on a widespread basis was gynecology, mostly for relatively short, simple procedures such as a diagnostic laparoscopy or tubal ligation.

Prior to his death, Mahfouz was the oldest living Nobel Literature laureate and the third oldest of all time, trailing only Bertrand Russell and Halldor Laxness.

Prior to 1950, there were only of railway lines.

Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.

Prior to that date, an award for working more than 100 countries on RTTY was only available via RTTY Journal.

Prior to his death, he had his chief officers swear an oath of loyalty to Izz al-Din, as he was the only Zengid ruler strong enough to oppose Saladin.

Prior to 2008, Stockholm University had only one student union

Prior to the civil war, Somalia had only one national airline, Somali Airlines, that serviced the entire country.

Prior to this contract agreement the Padres had offered to renew Gonzalez's contract during the offseason at $ 380, 500, only $ 500 over the league minimum for the 2007 season.

Prior to vaccination with cowpox, the only known protection against smallpox was inoculation or variolation ( Variola-the Smallpox viruses ) where a small amount of live smallpox virus was administered to the patient ; this carried the serious risk that the patient would be killed or seriously ill.

Prior to the introduction of this new technology, moving image production was only available to the consumer ( or the artist for that matter ) by way of eight or sixteen millimeter film, but did not provide the instant playback that video tape technologies offered.

Prior to his death, Lee told his then only two living instructors Kimura and Inosanto ( James Yimm Lee had died in 1972 ) to dismantle his schools.

Prior to the mid 1990s, WNV disease occurred only sporadically and was considered a minor risk for humans, until an outbreak in Algeria in 1994, with cases of WNV-caused encephalitis, and the first large outbreak in Romania in 1996, with a high number of cases with neuroinvasive disease.

Prior to the closing of the Vandenberg facility, orbiters were transported from the OPF to the VAB on their undercarriages, only to be raised when the orbiter was being lifted for attachment to the SRB / ET stack.