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George W. Bush
During a press conference at the Prime Minister's Palace in Baghdad, Iraq, journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw a shoe at United States President George W. Bush. "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!", yelled al-Zaidi in Arabic. -
Wen Jiabao
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was giving a lecture at the University of Cambridge, when near the the end of his lecture, a man, later identified as a German national Martin Jahnke, stood from the audience, blew a whistle and shouted, and threw his shoe at Wen, although the shoe landed a few feet away. -
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Independent Iranian news sites reported that during a trip to the city of Urmia, someone threw a shoe at the motorcade of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. People had become angry after the president's convoy hit an elderly man but did not stop. -
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
A student threw a shoe at the director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as he addressed a university in Istanbul, Turkey. The shoe missed. -
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
An Egyptian man threw a shoe at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but missed. -
Harry Styles (video included)
A shoe was thrown at Harry Styles of One Direction during the Glasgow leg of their Take Me Home Tour on 26 February 2013. The shoe hit him in the groin and the singer was seen bending over in pain before falling to the ground. WATCH VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ugsYw1yZdr8 -
Hillary Clinton (video included)
A female protestor threw a shoe at Hillary Rodham Clinton during a scrap metal recycling conference. She was not hit by the shoe, and subsequently joked about it. WATCH VIDEO: http://youtu.be/QPhtJcn_mR4 -
Inida PM Manmohan Singh
During an election rally, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came under a shoe attack in Ahmedabad. A 28-year old man threw the footwear, but missed the PM. Singh asked that charges not be filed against the attacker.
