A rare âmedicaneâ formed in the Mediterranean Sea and is producing strong winds and rain in southeast France. Tropical storm Sean could become a hurricane.
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech to a crowd of more than 40,000 people. The speech was named by Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, and changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East.
The Wall remained erect from 1961-1989. On May 2,1989, after Mikal Gorbachev declared that Moscow was no longer willing to use force to prevent democratic transformation of its satellite states, Hungary took down its iron curtain. East Germans poured out; 220,000 had passed to the West over six months.