The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 9, 2009 Thousands Mark 20th Anniversary of the Fall of Berlin Wall ---------------------------------------------------------- And tens of thousands of people are gathering in Berlin today to celebrate the events of November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. The event precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union and led to German reunification within less than a year. .