Berlin Wall timeline details an icon's history
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST;
updated 11:19 a.m. CST, Monday, November 9, 2009
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¦ Annie Yi-Chieh Liao, Kourtney Geers, Yantezia Patrick
On Nov. 9, 1989, the world watched, stunned, as a human deluge surged through the checkpoints of the Berlin Wall, marking the beginning of the end for the Soviet Bloc.
An East German official had announced the Wall was open for private travel.
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