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eigentor wrote:Schabowski was obviously confused, shuffled some papers, read one of them and said: "For all I know this is immediately...", Yeah eigentor you are right. Just nobody was informing the border troops. That went into a high dangerous situation because the troops has still been armed and without current instructions, which were updating them about the new situation that time. When the people's demand got higher and higher what increased the pressure they let the first people pass and respective ones got a stamp into their identity card [well we East Germans had a book  ] and a quarter of the stamp covered the photo and this was meaning that they were been expatriated. Just the people didn't know that....This damned [f...cking] regime was trying it till over the end.... So, R.I.P. GDR on histories trash dump the place you belong  Best Regards |
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In this very minute, 25 years ago, the first GDR citizens were granted their right to travel freely and crossed the border
at the "Bornholmer Straße" checkpoint in Berlin. Most people didnt realize the implications yet, but in this moment not only the Berlin Wall had fallen, the entire iron curtain had ceased to exist.  A few hours earlier, at a press conference of the "Central Comittee of the SED party", the italian journalist Riccardo Ehrman had asked the crucial question to Guenther Schabowski, the party spokesman: "When do the new travel regulations for GDR citizens become operative ?" Schabowski was obviously confused, shuffled some papers, read one of them and said: "For all I know this is immediately...", and with this sentence the GDR was history.  Yours truly was sitting in a bus towards home with some friends. It was around midnight in "Berlin (West)", district Charlottenburg, and we looked out of the windows and saw some Trabant and Wartburg cars driving around. "Wtf is going on here ?" we thought, but none of us would have even dreamed that the Wall had been opened. It was only on the next morning when my parents informed me what had happened last night. I drove to school as usual, but we had been given a day off, so we crossed the border to "Berlin (Capital of the GDR)" and enjoyed a great day there with very cheap food, beer and schnaps. In the evening we went back again and continued partying on the Kurfürstendamm.  Oh my, I was so unbelievably drunk...but that was one great day !
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Today, 25 years ago, an ad absurdum was finding it's end.
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July 21, 1970 Complete works of gigantic Aswan Dam in Egypt.
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21 July 1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 0256 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft. Armstrong had earlier reported the lunar module's safe landing at 2017 GMT with the words: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." As he put his left foot down first Armstrong declared: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He described the surface as being like powdered charcoal and the landing craft left a crater about a foot deep. The historic moments were captured on television cameras installed on the Eagle and turned on by Armstrong. Armstrong spent his first few minutes on the Moon taking photographs and soil samples in case the mission had to be aborted suddenly. He was joined by colleague Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin at 0315 GMT and the two collected data and performed various exercises - including jumping across the landscape - before planting the Stars and Stripes flag at 0341 GMT. They also unveiled a plaque bearing President Nixon's signature and an inscription reading: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind." [Versteckter Link - Registrierung notwendig] |
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1881 - William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
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1958 – The Lego Company (Denmark) patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
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Today, fifty years ago
 22 November 1963, it has been a Friday too... R.I.P. JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Silent Regrads |
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Two days too late, sorry.
9th November 1989: Unforgettable. |
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11.11.1918
 95 years ago the Armistice of Compiègne was closed and so ended the World War I,or the Great War. Let us hope that such pictures never repeat! |
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national day in belgium
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03/11/1992
bill clinton became the 42° president of the usa |
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90th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey
On 29 October 1923, Mustafa Kemal declared that Turkey would be a republic and renamed it as the Republic of Turkey. Since then, every year on October 29 is celebrated as Republic Day in Turkey. [Verstecktes Bild - Registrierung notwendig] |
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