Oh, there was a breaking news story, when former SED-official Günter Schabowski announced that people from East-Germany are allowed to travel... From wikipedia:
"On 9 November 1989, after a misunderstanding, Schabowski famously announced in a live broadcast international press conference that (effectively) all rules for travelling abroad were lifted, in effect "immediately" ("sofort, unverzüglich"). However, the misunderstanding was only with regards to the date; the plan had been to lift the rules, found to be unsustainable after mass defections of East Germans to West Germany via Hungary and Czechoslovakia, the next morning.
Tens of thousands of people immediately went to the Berlin Wall where the vastly outnumbered border guards were forced to open access points and allow them through, which proved to be the end of the Wall regime. "

The same night, thousands of GDR citicens crossed the checkpoints and the Brandenburg gate, but I guess I didn't learn about that until the next day...

Kirsten