Speaking from near the western side of the Berlin Wall at a ceremony to commemorate the 750th anniversary of Berlin’s founding, President Ronald Reagan famously declared, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” on #ThisDayInHistory in 1987. Although the speech initially received little press coverage, it became one of the most well-known of Reagan’s career and served as a dramatic appeal to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to reunify the city of Berlin, which had been divided by the wall for 26 yea