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Today in History: November 9, Berlin Wall falls after 28 years

Also on this day, the U.N. General Assembly approved resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa

People climb the Berlin wall in 1989
West-Berliner climb on the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 to ask for its fall. After months of mass protests against regime and amid a widening exodus of citizens to the West via Hungary, thousands of East Berliners on November 9, 1989 started streaming towards checkpoints leading to West Berlin, few hours after an East German official announced a decree stating that visas would be freely granted to those wanting to travel outside or leave the state and. / AFP PHOTO / Françoise CHAPTAL (Photo credit should read FRANCOISE CHAPTAL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West for the first time in decades.

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