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Events on Friday 12 June 1987 1
1987Reagan delivers "Tear down this wall" speechReagan challenges Gorbachev to open the Berlin WallSpeaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Ronald Reagan called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. The speech became one of the defining rhetorical moments of the late Cold War. The wall would fall two years later in 1989.