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Berlin Wall was starting to be built to cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin.
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East German border guard Conrad Schumann jumped over the barbed wire to the West.
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This date was usually noticed as the first killing by border guards after the wall went up.
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Wolfgang Engels stole an armoured personnel carrier and crashed through the wall
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President John Kennedy rides through West Berlin, he declares in a pledge of solidarity.
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President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and urges the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall
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opens the border for East German refugees
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Berlin Wall comes down
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