Prior to 1976, it was known as the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, which was established in 1968 by the Parliament of Canada to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors.

Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.

* A. N. Prior ( 1976 ) Papers in Logic and Ethics.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

Prior also sang backing vocals on the title track of Jethro Tull's 1976 album Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die.

Prior to 1976, Alaska's personal income tax rate was 14. 5 percent — the highest in the United States.

Prior to 1976 it was part of the Diwaniya Province, which also included present day Al Muthanna Governorate and Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.

Prior to 1976 the province was known as Muntafiq Province.

Prior to 1976 it had been named Kirkuk Province.

Prior to 1976, it was called Mosul Province and also included the present-day Dohuk Governorate.

Prior to Keith's signing with Sparrow Records and two years before the release of " No Compromise ", Tommy James ( of Tommy James and the Shondells ) released " Don't Wanna Fall Away From You " on his 1976 Fantasy album titled " In Touch ".

Prior to 1976, Cuba was divided into the following provinces ( from west to east ):

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

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

Prior to modern times, the three main branches of the current corporate family tree were for many years themselves systems: Norfolk and Western, formed in 1881, Southern Railway System in 1894, and Conrail, formed much later, in 1976 .< ref name = trainsmag >

Prior to his election to Congress, Castle served as a member of the Delaware General Assembly, first in the State House of Representatives ( 1966 – 1967 ) and then in the State Senate ( 1968 – 1976 ).

Prior to 1976, this is also the business section's name of New Straits Times.

Prior to 1976 it was known as Kut Province.

Prior to 1976 it was part of Ninawa Governorate, which was called Mosul Province.

Prior to the 1976 season, Lemon was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Prior to the perihelion passage, and using 28 positions obtained between 1975 August 10 and 1976 January 27, Comet West was estimated to have an orbital period of about 254 thousand years.

Note: Prior to approximately 1976, most Nikon lenses had a suffix appended directly after the " Nikkor " name that was used to denote the number of optical elements in the lens design.

Prior to the 1976 – 77 NHL season, Charron signed as a free agent with the Washington Capitals, where he played until he retired following the 1980 – 81 NHL season.

Prior to its expansion under Philip II, the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, to which the modern region owes its name, lay entirely within the current Greek province of Macedonia.

Prior to 1991, he also designed and set up a nuclear fuel factory at the Punjab province.

Prior to the 4th century BC, the kingdom covered a region approximately corresponding to the Western and Central parts of province of Macedonia in modern Greece.

Each province is governed by a Prior Provincial, each commissariat by a Commissary General, each of the two congregations by a Vicar General, and every monastery by a Prior ( only the Czech monastery of Alt-Brunn in Moravia is under an abbot ) and every college by a Rector.

Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu.

Prior to the adoption of the current coat of arms, the trees were used, without the lion, as the symbol of the province.

Prior to 1995, Kalinga and Apayao comprised a single province named Kalinga-Apayao, until they were split into two to better service the needs of individual native tribes in the provinces.

Prior to 1995, Kalinga and Apayao used to be a single province named Kalinga-Apayao, until they were split into two to better service the needs of individual native tribes in the provinces.

Prior to the CNE, a major agricultural fair was held in a different city every year in the province of Ontario.

Prior to 2000, Gorontalo province was part of North Sulawesi province on the eastern border.

Prior to the rural to urban migration, the Amerindian and Afro-Ecuadorian ethnicities were mostly constrained to the Andes region and province of Esmeraldas and the Chota Valley in the province of Imbabura respectively.

Prior to 1956, the Nova Scotia Liberal Party had ruled the province for 76 of its 89 years, most of that time with fewer than 5 opposition members.

Prior worked as a mining engineer in England until 1873 when he moved to the province where he settled in Nanaimo and took employment as assistant manager of the Vancouver Coal Mining & Land Co., Ltd.

Prior to 2007, the province was known as West Irian Jaya ().

Prior to the 1972 election, Thompson moved to British Columbia to teach and tried to win a seat from that province, but was defeated in the attempt.

Prior to becoming the tenth province of Canada in 1949, Newfoundland ( then a separate British Dominion ) used the Forget-me-not as a symbol of remembrance of that nation's war dead.

Prior to the 1996 provincial election, the province was divided into 16 dual-member districts, each of which was represented by one member who held the title Assemblyman and one member who held the title Councillor.

Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, Bulakan, as well as the rest of the towns of Bulacan province was consisted of small scattered settlements of villages each then called " balangay " or " barangay " a word derived from the name of the boats used by the early seafaring Malays who went to various islands of what now called Philippines.

Prior to an administrative reorganization in 1994, Unity was part of a much larger province of Upper Nile, and the state is still sometimes called Western Upper Nile.

Prior to 1918, all of Lithuania Minor was part of the Kingdom of Prussia's province of East Prussia, the core of medieval Prussia.