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Berlin Wall: Today's events

Last update: November 8, 2009 - 10:14 PM

TODAY'S EVENTS

With concerts and memorials today, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall opened up 20 years ago. ¶ Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will head the U.S. delegation at the festivities. ¶ Former Polish leader Lech Walesa, whose Solidarity movement played a key role in ending communism in Eastern Europe, will have a featured role, tipping over the first in a mile-long row of 71/2-foot-high dominoes representing the Wall.

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