Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging incident occurred during the 902nd Plenary  Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York in 1960.  During the session on 12 October, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the  Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in  protest ... He also reported that no photographic or video records of the shoe- banging ...
Says Nikita Khrushchev brought an extra shoe to a United Nations session in  1960, which he banged on the desk in protest. — PolitiFact Rhode Island on ...
Sep 20, 2017 ... ... Premier Nikita Khrushchev yanked off a shoe to pound a desk in protest in  1960. ... time, the Irish president of the General Assembly banged his gavel so  hard it broke. ... "Only the United Nations can bring together the international ...  Needless to say, several parts of the world are in turmoil, and it may be ...
Dec 5, 1988 ... Khrushchev's 1960 stay got off to a noisy start after he arrived by sea, aboard ...  Andrei A. Gromyko - did his shoe-banging at the General Assembly. ... But Sir  Brian Urquhart, a British official of the United Nations who rose to be ... one of  Gromyko's, or kept an extra shoe in his briefcase for banging purposes.
Jan 11, 2010 ... In a response to the Philippine delegate who said that the Soviet Union had ...  banging his shoe at the UN General Assembly on October 13, 1960*. ... Whether  he eventually banged it on the desk was the matter of some debate. ... A UN  staffer claimed that the shoe fell off earlier when Khrushchev was ...
Says Nikita Khrushchev brought an extra shoe to a United Nations session in 1960, which he banged on the desk in protest.