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Replica of the shoe thrown at George W. Bush in a New York Museum . 7 April: Arbab Ghulam Rahim, the former Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan, was leaving the back door of the Sindh assembly building after taking oath as a newly elected member when he was hit by a shoe allegedly thrown by Agha Javed Pathan, a worker from the Pakistan Peoples Party.
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 ...
Shoe-tossing is the throwing of footwear, the reasons for which differ based on cultural context. A pair of laced shoes may be thrown across raised cables, such as telephone wires and power lines, or onto tree branches to create " shoe trees ".
On November 7, 2022, a man was arrested for throwing a hard seltzer can at Senator Ted Cruz during a World Series parade in Downtown Houston, Texas. [91] [92] On April 29, 2023, a woman was arrested for allegedly throwing a drink at Matt Gaetz and another man during a wine festival in Miramar Beach, Florida. The woman claimed she tripped and ...
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; Sheila Dixon, in 1991 Dixon waved her shoe at colleagues on the Baltimore City Council; Jarnail Singh (born 1973) threw shoe at P. Chidarbram
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 ...
Sabots were considered a work shoe associated with the lower classes in the 16th to 19th centuries. During this period, the years of the Industrial Revolution , the word sabotage gained currency. An alleged etymology describes the actions of disgruntled workers who willfully damaged workplace machinery by throwing their sabots into the works.
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