The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, ... On Nov. 9, 1989, the border was opened, and the Berlin Wall ceremoniously came down as the world watched.

— -- The Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago today. Built in the middle of the night Aug. 13, 1961, the wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years to stop East Germans from leaving the ...

He was 50 when the wall came down. He ventured into West Berlin three days after the opening, walked through streets filled with trash, the leftovers from a joyous national family reunion.

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years. Today, Nov. 9, marks the 30th anniversary of when it began to come down. It may be hard to imagine, a generation later, what a momentous event that was and why ...

Hour by hour, the story grew in excitement: rumors abounded that the Berlin Wall could very well be coming down within days. So that morning, about 5 a.m., with no assignment, ...

BERLIN – “There is such a lot of unbelievable things here,” 27 year-old Jay Baumgarten told me. Jay was the first newcomer from the East I spoke with in West Berlin after the Berlin Wall ...

THE Fall of the Berlin Wall happened 30 years ago today. Why was the Berlin Wall built and when did the wall come down? Here’s what we know. When did the Berlin Wall fall? The dismantling of … ...

It took 15 months for the Wall to come down — and it couldn’t have happened in a more startling way. It was triggered by a blunder of the East Berlin party boss, Günter Schabowski, in a press ...

Why the Berlin Wall came down. In this Nov. 10, 1989, file photo, East and West Berliners mingle as they celebrate in front of a control station on East Berlin territory, ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall 29 years ago was one of the most consequential events of the 20th century, exposing the Soviet Union as a corrupt, weak “empire” and effectively ending the Cold War ...

The wall, perhaps the most powerful symbol of the Cold War, stood for more than 28 years until it was torn down starting Nov. 9, 1989, during the collapse of the Soviet empire.

Hour by hour, the story grew in excitement: rumors abounded that the Berlin Wall could very well be coming down within days. So that morning, about 5 a.m., with no assignment, ...