1990 Event Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate 1961 Birthday David Leavitt, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, gay literature, professor at Princeton, author of, 'The Lost Language of Cranes', 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'The Indian Clerk' 1903 Birthday Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer, When the Cranes Fly 1899 Birthday Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist, Thousand Cranes
