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1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer

1994 U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti

1992 Slovak parliament asks for self rule

1990 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss

1987 Turkey asks to join European market

1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"

1981 Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be

1978 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government

1976 Uganda asks United Nations to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

1975 Czechoslovakian tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City

1973 Greek President Papadopoulos asks for "parliamentary presidential republic"

1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia

1970 After NL record 1,117 consec games, Billy Williams asks to sit out

1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US

1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote

1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty

1963 Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron

1963 Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron

1961 John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp

1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East

1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron

1954 Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings

1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra

1950 Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1st base (handles 13 chances)

1950 U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops

1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, United Nations asks members to aid South Korea, Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict

1950 Chiang Kai-shek asks U.S. for weapons

1948 Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine

1946 U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain

1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers

1942 Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender

1942 Free-Poland and Belgium asks pope to condemn nazi-war crimes

1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1936 Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy

1927 President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference

1926 Philippines government asks U.S. to plebiscite for independence

1926 Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc

1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council

1922 Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help

1918 Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state

1917 President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

1914 Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Colby

1909 Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands

1906 Cuba's 1st president Tomas Estrada Palma asks for U.S. intervention

1898 President McKinley asks for Spanish-American War declaration

1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid

1889 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood

1864 President Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service

1863 Governor Seymour asks Lincoln to suspend draft in New York

1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen

1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle

1808 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain

1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers

1660 English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns

1634 Heeren XIX asks "to secure Eylands Curaeao"

1606 Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"

1577 Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns


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