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{{Short description|1960 act by Nikita Khrushchev in the UN}}
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[[File:Nikita Khrushchev 1960.jpg|thumb|Khrushchev at a [[Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples|meeting]] of the UN General Assembly on 22 September, three weeks before the incident]]
The '''shoe-banging incident''' occurred when [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by [[Philippines|Philippine]] delegate [[Lorenzo Sumulong]] during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] held in [[New York City]] on 12 October 1960.<ref>{{cite book |author=Carlson |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPSruIbe5CUC&pg=PA408 |title=K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist |publisher=Read How You Want |year=2010 |isbn=9781458772466 |pages=408–412 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Ingrassia |first=Michele |date=6 December 1988 |title=Krushchev brought chaos to UN in 1960 |page=87 |newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |agency=Newsday |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19881206&id=xnYfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3746,7968791}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{citation | last = Taubman | first = William | year = 2003 | title = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | publisher = W.W. Norton & Co. | isbn = 978-0-393-32484-6|pages=475–476, 657 | title-link = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era }}</ref>
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