2015 Event During his visit to Bolivia, Pope Francis asks for forgiveness for the Catholic Church for its offenses against the indigenous population of the American continent during the conquest by European powers 2013 Event The U.S. asks China for a detailed account of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square 2012 Event After last months extensive flooding, North Korea asks the United Nations for food aid 2012 Event Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi appoints Hisham Qandil as Prime Minister, and asks him to form a new government 2012 Event The Vietnamese government asks for help from the World Health Organization after an outbreak of an unidentified fatal disease occurs in Quang Ngai Province 2011 Event President Barack Obama asks Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar December 4, 2011 2011 Event China asks Myanmar to protect Chinese corporate interests after Burma's President Thein Sein shut down the Myitsone Dam project 2011 Event Japan asks South Korea to refute a plan to build a Korean World War II 'comfort women' monument near Seoul's Japanese embassy 2011 Event President Mubarak asks his government to resign 1998 Event Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer 1994 Event U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti 1992 Event Slovak parliament asks for self rule 1990 Event 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss 1987 Event Turkey asks to join European market 1984 Event Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" 1981 Event Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be 1978 Event Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government 1976 Event Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe 1975 Event Czechoslovakian tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City 1973 Event Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic" 1971 Event International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia 1970 Event After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out 1967 Event Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US 1965 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote 1964 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty 1963 Event Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron 1963 Event Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron 1961 Event John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp 1957 Event Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East 1955 Event Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron 1954 Event Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings 1954 Event Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra 1950 Event Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances) 1950 Event U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops 1950 Event North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict 1950 Event Chiang Kai-shek asks U.S. for weapons 1948 Event Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine 1946 Event U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain 1943 Event Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers 1942 Event Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender 1942 Event Free-Poland and Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes 1942 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II 1940 Event France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II 1936 Event Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy 1927 Event President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference 1926 Event Philippines government asks U.S. to plebiscite for independence 1926 Event Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc 1926 Event China asks for a seat in the Security council 1922 Event Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help 1918 Event Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state 1917 Event President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany 1914 Event Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Colby 1909 Event Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands 1906 Event Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention 1898 Event President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration 1894 Event Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid 1889 Event Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood 1864 Event President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service 1863 Event Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York 1861 Event Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen 1831 Event John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle 1808 Event Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain 1776 Event George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers 1660 Event English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns 1634 Event Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curaeao" 1606 Event Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt" 1577 Event Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns
