Timeline Friday 24 July 1959

Events on Friday 24 July 1959 1

• 1959 Nixon and Khrushchev hold the "Kitchen Debate" Impromptu Cold War exchange at a Moscow exhibition Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev engaged in an unscripted, televised debate over capitalism and communism while touring a model American kitchen at a U.S. exhibition in Moscow. The exchange became a defining moment of Cold War public diplomacy. It was widely covered in the press on both sides of the Iron Curtain.