Galileo

Galileo had been compelled by the Roman Inquisition not to assert 'what seemed contradict Scripture'before he was imprisoned
The teaching of Lord Buddha had been spread all over five hundred years before the Tripitaka was written.
Thomas More had been condemned as a traitor and executed four hundred years before he was canonized as a saint by Pope Pixus XL.
The new world had been discovered by Christopher Co-lumbus before it was explored by Amerigo Vespucci,an Italian navigator,for whom America was named.
The Suez Canal had been completed ten years before Ferdinand de Lesseps designed the Panama Canal.
Many lives had been saved by penicillin before its discoverer received the Nobel Prize.
The Bastille had been stormed before the National Asembly of France promulgaed a new constitution.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been derstroyed by atomic bombs before World War II ended.
Radium had been discovered by a Frence physicist,Pierre Curie,and his Polish wife,Marie,two years before the former was killed in an accident.
Many intellectuals in Thailand had been imprisoned before the new Prime Minister,General Kriangsak Chomanan,declared an amnesty for them in 1977.