MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · November 9
THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 9
November 9 in history
1938
Kristallnacht: synagogues burn across Germany while police watch. Fifty-one years later to the day, the Berlin Wall falls.
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1989 — The Wall falls
9 Nov 1989 — A bungled press conference — “immediately, without delay” — sends East Berlin to the checkpoints. The guards, unordered, open the gates. The Cold War’s symbol comes down by accident, on live TV.
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