Shoe-banging incident

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During the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York City on 12 October 1960, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was alleged to have pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong. In 2003, American scholar William Taubman in his biography of Khrushchev reported that after interviewing eyewitnesses, despite the conflicting accounts and with full historiographical humility, he had adopted the view that the shoe was not only brandished but banged.

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