11 Nov 2019

The Question of the Day for 11 November 2019

From The Panel, 4:35 pm on 11 November 2019

On 4 November 1989 a million people flooded onto the streets bearing lit candles to protest against a repressive East German regime that days later would yield power to people and raise the toll bars at the border crossings in the city.

It was an extraordinary moment and what followed was then, almost unthinkable...The Berlin Wall would be dismantled in days. It came down officially on November 9, thirty years ago.

 

What world/local event do you recall exactly where you were at the time? E.g Berlin Wall