On this day - 12 October
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
Alleged shoe-banging incident
Nikita Khrushchev served as leader of the Soviet Union during the 1950s until he was deposed in 1964.
On October 12th 1960 the alleged shoe-banding incident occured when Khrushchev was reported to have taken off his shoe and banged it on the desk while in a United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. It was reported to have occurred in response to comments made by a Filipino delegate Lorenzo Sumulong who felt there was deprivation of liberty occurring to the people of Eastern Europe at the hands of the Soviet Union.
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