Nov 3
How an accident caused the Berlin Wall to come down
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103001846_pf.html
Once events make their passage from news of the day into history books, it is hard to imagine that they could have happened any other way. They're history, after all. And 20 years later, the fall of the Berlin Wall seems like that kind of history -- a world-changing event that we commemorate and celebrate, its heroes and villains well established, its images and significance clearly comprehended.
(via Instapaper)
