Shoe-banging incident
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Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident allegedly occurred at some point in autumn, 1960 (on 23, or 29 September, or on 12, or 13 October) during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly held in New York.
Some sources claim Khruschev pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest of a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong. Others argue Khruschev was responding to the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Though all parties are in agreement that Khrushchev was enraged by both Sumulong's and Macmillan's speeches, and loudly denounced them, there are no photographic or video records of the incident available. There is at least one fake photographic depiction of the incident, where a shoe was added into an existing photograph.
