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When bananas brought down the Berlin Wall

On Thursday evening, Nov 9, 1989, West German public TV stations signed off the air at about midnight, as usual. Residents of Hamburg, a mere 50 km from the East German border, went to bed, dreaming of little than the next workday and the following weekend. Little did they know it would be a Friday like no other.10:00 AM on November 08