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The shoe throwing incident also sparked off widespread protests by Sikhs against the CBI which had given a clean chit to Tytler. [37] After the shoe throwing incident, Congress calculated politically that all the media controversy created could make it lose many seats especially in Punjab. Fearing further controversy, Congress dropped both ...
On 14 December 2008, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi removed his shoes and threw them at United States president George W. Bush during a joint press conference with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. Bush quickly ducked, avoiding being hit by either of the shoes. The second shoe collided with a U.S. flag positioned ...
Khrushchev at a meeting of the UN General Assembly on 22 September, three weeks before the incident. The alleged [1] shoe-banging incident occurred when Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General ...
On May 23, 2023, a woman was arrested for allegedly throwing a brick at San Francisco Mayor London Breed during an open-air Board of Supervisors meeting. [95] On September 16, 2024, protesters threw ping pong balls at Mayor Andre Dickens and other members of the Atlanta City Council.
Peter Robert Gray (10 May 1980 – 30 April 2011) was an Australian environmental activist, notable for two landmark court cases, and for having thrown his shoes in public at former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard in protest over Australia's participation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Pages in category "Protest tactics" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. ... List of shoe-throwing incidents; 0–9. 2001 sex strike for ...
Shoe-banging incident, Nikita Khrushchev at the UN General Assembly held in New York; Mike Milbury, a Boston Bruin, entered the Madison Square Garden stands on December 23, 1979, disciplining an unruly fan with the fan's own shoe. Muntadhar al-Zaidi, George W. Bush shoe throwing incident