Until 1965, the Coast Guard used U. S. Navy hull classification codes, prepending a " W " to their beginning.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, there appears to have been no national government or national leader in Niue.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, time was believed to be independent of motion, progressing at a fixed rate in all reference frames ; however, later experiments revealed that time slows at higher speeds of the reference frame relative to another reference frame.

Until the beginning of the next round, only the television audience knows exactly who the strongest and weakest links are statistically due to Briggs ' narration.

Until 2012 the " S " mint mark was used only on proof coins, but beginning with the El Yunque ( Puerto Rico ) design in the America the Beautiful Quarters program, the U. S. Mint began selling ( at a premium ) uncirculated 40-coin rolls and 100-coin bags of quarters with the San Francisco mint mark.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, straw-twisting was also rather important.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the falles were tall boxes with three or four wax dolls dressed in fabric clothing.

Until the beginning of the Jet Age, piston engines were common on propliners like the Douglas DC-3.

Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German speaking city in the world, and before the first world war and the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire the city had 2 million inhabitants.

Until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the rails were made of wood, were a few inches wide and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood or " sleepers ", placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

Until the beginning of the 18th century, no rotary winnowing fans existed in the West.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the population stayed relatively stable at some 1, 500 persons.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, fishing remained its primary business, but then began to be replaced by the growing tourism industry.

Until 2010, it was held annually on the last teaching day of Trinity term to celebrate the end of lectures and the beginning of Trinity Week.

Until Ricky Gervais hosted the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 2010, the award ceremony was one of two major Hollywood award ceremonies ( the other being the Screen Actors Guild Awards ) that did not have a regular host ; every year a different presenter introduced the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast.

Until the beginning of the 1960s, tractors had a single register of gears, hence one gear stick, often with three to five forward gears and 1 reverse.

Until the beginning of the 20th century people generally did not care which administration Voeren came under.

Until 1888 the Thai New Year was the beginning of the year in Thailand ; thereafter 1 April was used until 1940.

Until the beginning of the 1970s, the club mainly played in local lower division leagues, except from a short visit in the Hovedserien in the 1957-58 season.

Until the beginning of the 20th century Acre belonged to Bolivia.

Until the economic downturn became worse in 2008, along with fuel prices beginning to soar, OAK was one of the nation's fastest growing airports for much of the decade.

Until the beginning January 2010, HKL was responsible for planning and organising all public transport in Helsinki.

Until the beginning of the century it had been of moderate intensity and mainly of a class nature ( under Venetian rule the Italians were employed in the most profitable activities, such as trade and administration ).

Until the introduction of ampicillin by the British company Beecham, penicillin therapies had only been effective against Gram-positive organisms such as staphylococci and streptococci.

Until 1887, the sport was played in England under the rules that prevailed in British India.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

Until the mid-19th century, the Museum's collections were relatively circumscribed but, in 1851, with the appointment to the staff of Augustus Wollaston Franks to curate the collections, the Museum began for the first time to collect British and European medieval antiquities, prehistory, branching out into Asia and diversifying its holdings of ethnography.

Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in many areas of British life.

Until 1968, British law required scripts to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

Until 1995 it was the standard access software provided by British dial-up internet service provider Demon Internet.

Until 1751 in England and Wales ( and all British dominions ) the new year started on 25 March – Lady Day, one of the four quarter days ( the change to 1 January took place in 1600 in Scotland ).

Until the summer of 2009, he was also the Chairman of the British Council and the President of Cardiff University.

Until after World War II, the landlocked British possession of Southern Rhodesia was not developed as an indigenous African territory, but rather as a unique state which reflected its multiracial character.

Until 1949, changes to the British North America Acts could be made only by the British parliament.

Until 2002 it was also available in Boots, a British high-street chain-pharmacy.

Until the Roman conquest of Britain, the area that would become known as Glamorgan was part of the territory of the Silures – a Celtic British tribe that flourished in the Iron Age – whose territory also included the areas that would become known as Breconshire and Monmouthshire.

Until the 1920s, Governors-General were British subjects, appointed on the advice of the British Government, who acted as agents of the British Government in each Dominion, as well as being representatives of the monarch.

Until 1918, the British prime minister's powers had been theoretically quite limited and, as a member of the cabinet, the office-holder was regarded strictly as primus inter pares.

Until at least 1908, the British took the Macdonald line to be the boundary, but in 1911, the Xinhai Revolution resulted in the collapse of central power in China, and by the end of World War I, the British officially used the Johnson Line.

Until the final days of the Mandate period, the museum was administered by the Palestine Government.

Until 1930, the airfield in Kalandia was the only airport in the British Mandate for Palestine.