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West Berlin

the Western sectors of Berlin between 1945 and 1990

7 dated entries naming West Berlin, drawn from 7 separate years between 1952 CE and 1986 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1952December 25 – One West German soldier is killed in a shooting incident in West Berlin.source
  • 1961August 13 – Berlin Crisis of 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe (until 1989, when Berlin and Germany both reunified in 1990, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall). On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 deaths at the Wall.source
  • 1963June 26 – John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin, Germany.source
  • 1964October 5 – Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.source
  • 1967June 2 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement.source
  • 1972February 2 – A bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German boat builder. The West German militant group June 2 Movement claims responsibility, announcing its support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.source
  • 1986April 5 – 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discothèque La Belle, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing three and injuring 230; Libya is held responsible.source

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