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)
