<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" id="mw4g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: Hungary begins <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Hungary's_border_fence_with_Austria" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Removal of Hungary's border fence with Austria">dismantling its border fence with Austria</a>, which allows a number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="East Germany">East Germans</a> to defect.