Shoe-banging incident
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shoe-banging-incident-184-3116538
title:
Shoe-banging incident
text:
The alleged shoe-banging incident occurred when Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York City on 12 October 1960. In 2003, American scholar William Taubman reported that he had interviewed some eyewitnesses who said that Khrushchev had brandished his shoe but not banged i
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description:
1960 act by Nikita Khrushchev in the UN
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-banging_incident
date created:
2008-04-21T20:15:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T07:17:36Z
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