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2012 Event - After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy

2011 Event - Iran refuses to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that Iran captured after it crash landed in the country; Iran reports they are extracting data from the aircraft

1994 Event - New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure

1988 Event - U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist

1986 Event - Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts, refuses to let Reagan address House

1985 Event - Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons

1982 Event - Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize

1977 Event - NHL refuses merger of 6 WHA clubs

1977 Event - Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell

1974 Event - Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee

1973 Event - AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees

1973 Event - NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington D.C.

1973 Event - President Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation

1971 Event - White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign

1971 Event - Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire

1968 Event - U.S. Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband

1968 Event - France refuses U.K. entry into common market

1968 Event - Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa

1967 Event - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title

1967 Event - Louisville, Kentucky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali

1965 Event - General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR

1964 Event - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1962 Event - Governor R. Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith)

1958 Event - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

1957 Event - Tunisia refuses Russian weapons

1956 Event - Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam

1956 Event - Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans)

1956 Event - University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)

1956 Event - Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad

1954 Event - German government refuses to recognize DDR

1953 Event - President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple

1952 Event - Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)

1951 Event - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio

1951 Event - China refuses cease-fire in Korea

1950 Event - Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women

1946 Event - University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game

1946 Event - Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses

1945 Event - Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy

1941 Event - Governor-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refugees

1940 Event - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees

1938 Event - K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India

1938 Event - Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing

1934 Event - VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe

1933 Event - Yankees refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cincinnati Reds

1932 Event - Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor

1929 Event - President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I

1926 Event - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"

1925 Event - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement

1924 Event - Netherlands refuses to recognize U.S.S.R.

1923 Event - Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter

1923 Event - U.S. foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses U.S.S.R. recognition

1923 Event - Bavarian minister of Interior refuses to forbid Nazi SA

1921 Event - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians

1915 Event - U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates

1914 Event - Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty

1894 Event - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA's awarded cup by trustees as Ottawa refuses to travel to Toronto to play

1892 Event - Homer A. Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson)

1884 Event - William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected"

1831 Event - Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle

1829 Event - President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses

1797 Event - Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks

1751 Event - Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto

1657 Event - English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown

1585 Event - Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands

1556 Event - Pope Paul IV refuses to crown Ferdinand of Austria emperor

1555 Event - English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king

1250 Event - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue

1124 Event - Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)

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