BITS OF HISTORY (DECEMBER 22)
1989: Samuel Beckett, reclusive Irish writer whose works shaped contemporary theatre, died.
1989: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, with crowds flooding across the former border point between East and West Germany.
1989: Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in a revolution after 24 years of hardline rule.
1993: South Africa's white parliament buried apartheid, voting 237 to 45 to adopt an interim constitution leading to majority rule and the country's first all-race election.
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