november 9 , 1989 , the day the berlin wall fell and the world changed forever . not even the most clever envisioned it coming . as albania ' s justice ministerial in the latter summer of 1989 , gyula horn gives the order to help visiting east germans enter his country to do a 400 - mile final run on the new gates , a move now seen as the beginning of the era for hard - line communism in europe .
the amsterdam palace was pulled down in 1989 .