Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

Prior to 1969, Carson City was also the county seat of Ormsby County.

:" Prior to ... 1969, only one Supreme Court case, three court of appeals ' decisions, and one district court decision in the previous quarter-century featured an anonymous individual as the sole or lead plaintiff.

Prior to 1969, most local Roman Catholics worshipped at St. Patrick's in Newry, an Irish-founded parish about away.

Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for a local advertising agency, and in 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, Tumbleweeds.

Prior to Simon's learning the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody and several lines from Carthy's arrangement in creating his song, " Girl from the North Country ", which appeared on The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ( 1963 ), Nashville Skyline ( 1969 ) ( together with Johnny Cash ), Real Live ( 1984 ) and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration ( 1993 ).

Prior to the late 1960s many public houses in the area were owned by the local brewer Hewitt Brothers and gave a distinctive local touch but following a takeover in 1969 by the brewer Bass-Charrington these have been re-badged ( many times ), closed or sold off.

* Arthur Prior ( 1914 – 1969 ), philosopher and logician

Prior to 1969, taking steps to cause an abortion was an offence liable to life imprisonment.

Prior to 1969, airworthiness standards for civil aircraft in the United States Federal Aviation Regulations specified that distances were to be in statute miles, and speeds in miles per hour.

Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the Company functioned as a law society for the city's solicitors.

Prior to 1969, Stuyvesant did not accept female students.

Prior to its closing in late 1969, Eastern State Penitentiary ( then known as State Correctional Institution, Philadelphia ) had established a far reaching program of group therapy with the goal of having all inmates involved.

Prior to the 1969 military coup of Gaafar Nimeiry, a blue-yellow-green tricolor design was used.

* William Prior ( priest ) ( 1883 – 1969 ), English Anglican Archdeacon of Bodmin

Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Saaty was professor of statistics and operations research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( 1969 – 79 ).

Prior to entering government service, he served as executive vice president of Systems Control Inc. from 1969 – 78, where he applied estimation and control theory to military and commercial problems, with particular concentration on algorithms used to perform real-time resource allocation and control.

Prior to the 1969 general election in September of that year, Porritt sparked a heated debate with a Labour candidate Eddie Isbey when he argued in a speech to the Southern Cross Medical Care Society that the welfare state was " uneconomic ".

Prior to release on any album, Mitchell performed " Woodstock " at the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, one month after Woodstock.

Prior to the release of the " Get Back " single in the spring of 1969, all Beatles singles were issued in mono in the US.

Prior to his London appointment, he had been a Toronto police officer since 1969.

Upon returning to Britain, Lord and Lady Wakehurst worked with community organisations including the Order of St John of Jerusalem, of which Wakehurst was Lord Prior from 1948 to 1969, subsequently also a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order ( GCStJ ), and for the English-Speaking Union.

Prior to 1969, when the format changed to country music, WWNC played middle of the road music.

Prior to recording, the term " for unlawful carnal knowledge " was first used by the band Coven as a track on their album Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls in 1969.

Prior to the Gulf War in 1990 – 91, when the Intifada's intensity began to wear down, Arafat supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and opposed the US-led coalition attack on Iraq.

Prior to attending university, he began a career in politics.

Prior to the development of the formal Juno award ceremonies, RPM Magazine began polling its readers in 1964 to determine which artists and groups were considered the best in Canada.

Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, protests about local racial segregation which began quietly in Franklin Street restaurants led to mass demonstrations and disturbance.

Prior to the United States ' involvement in the conflict, construction began on MacDill Field, the predecessor of present day MacDill Air Force Base.

Prior to the 1980s when there were no 24-hour news channels competing with Front Page Challenge, each round of the game began with silent black and white newsreel footage of the news story in question while a narrator, not heard by the panelists, summarized it.

Prior to the start of the Revolutionary War, the early Quaker settlers became dissatisfied with the quality of the farmland within Newberry Township and began moving out of it.

Prior to one of the biggest fights of his career, Mosley began training with Naazim Richardson.

Prior to the introduction of the Bulletin Board System ( BBS ), modems typically operated on direct-dial telephone lines that always began and ended with a particular modem at each end.

The Prior at Winchester began to lease Fleet Ponds and the pastures there to a tenant at Fleet Farm, at an annual rent of 23 shillings and 4 pence plus “ a hundred of the fishes, pike, tenches, perches, bream and roaches, to he carried and delivered ( to Winchester ) in a good and fresh state ”.

Prior to this, the service was operated by Rapid Transit, Inc., which began bus service in Winthrop on January 28, 1940, the day immediately following the abandonment of the former Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn " Narrow Gauge " Railroad.

Prior to his election, the UNIA began publication of the third house organ, a monthly newspaper entitled " Garvey's Voice ".

Prior to the 2003 season, Alou was named manager of the Giants, the team where he began his professional baseball career, replacing Dusty Baker who had left to manage the Chicago Cubs.

Prior to the 1990s and 2000s no serial in Shōnen Sunday had run over 40 volumes, but that began to change with series such as Meitantei Conan, MAJOR, InuYasha, Shijō Saikyō no Deshi Kenichi and Karakuri Circus, which maintained a high level of popularity.

Prior to the advent of temperature control fermentation, the late harvest dates for Nebbiolo meant that the wines began fermentation when the weather turned cold.

Prior to Marr the programme had a number of regular secondary presenters including Ken Sykora, Kenneth Robinson ( who began in 1971 during the Baker era ), Rosie Boycott, Catherine Bennett and Lisa Jardine.

Prior to the phylloxera epidemic, wealthy Chilean landowners were influenced by their visits to France and began importing French vines to plant.

Prior to major hydrologic modifications that began in the early 1900s, the river was wider and deeper and generally flowed more slowly due to a relatively small difference in elevation between Lake Sammamish and Lake Washington.

Prior to World War I, thousands of Percherons were shipped from France to the United States, but after the war began, an embargo stopped shipping.

In about 1476 Rosselli began a cycle dedicated to Filippo Benizzi, fifth Prior General of the Servites, which was then completed by Andrea del Sarto 1509 – 10.

Prior to her departure she began portraying Kelly Cramer on ABC's One Life to Live, also making brief appearances on All My Children, until she departed in 2006.

Prior to the new Ground Training Program, which began officially on 24 June 1946, some training was carried out by individual units, primarily physical engineering, bombardiering, and armament.

Prior to the 2001 season, the university began a program of modernization of the stadium by enclosing the southern endzone with seats, and the state-of-the-art Murphy Center ( named for Wendell Murphy ) was built behind it.