The fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The facts
| Dates | AD 1989 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The fall of the Berlin Wall falls 5993 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
The Watergate scandalAD 1972Billy Graham preaches to a million in South KoreaAD 1973The eradication of smallpoxAD 1980The first space shuttle launchAD 1981The launch of the Hubble Space TelescopeAD 1990The cloning of Dolly the sheepAD 1996Benjamin Netanyahu elected Israel’s prime ministerAD 1996The creation of GoogleAD 1998
Now see where it sits
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