On this day in 1989 East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This was the beginning of the end for Communist-controlled East Germany. The next day they would start to tear down the Berlin Wall.  This was one of those events I remember watching on television and not believing what I was seeing. Amazing. One of the greatest moments of the 20th century. What Ronaldus Magnus had called for had happened. “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall” In a couple years East and West Germany would be united and communism in eastern Europe and Russia would belong to the dustbin of history.