Although the border remained closed for around three hours, by 11pm the Berlin Wall checkpoint at Bornholmer Strasse had been opened.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Laika was never intended to return to Earth as the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed.
Because America’s part of the agreement was kept secret, Khrushchev appeared to have ‘lost’. The reality is that both sides made concessions.
By the summer of 1987 it had become public knowledge that the Soviets had bugged the new building with technology that the United States was struggling to disable.
The establishment of the GDR ensured that the division of Germany that had been implemented in 1945 was made permanent.
At midnight on 3 October the black, red and gold flag of West Germany was raised above the Brandenburg Gate which had previously divided the two sides.
Known as Transatlantic No. 1 or TAT-1, the £120 million system actually consisted of two identical cables to allow transmission in each direction.
Truman later ordered all copies to be brought to him and locked away since the content was a serious threat to US-Soviet relations.
Hungary had been inundated with East Germans since the government began removing the border fence in May.
The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
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