EUREKA - A defining time in world history will be remembered at "The Fall of the Wall: Eureka College Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall" on Nov. 9.

Events will include a ceremony at the Ronald W. Reagan Peace Garden, which has a section of the wall; a dinner; and a symposium with panelists who will discuss the collapse of communism in former Eastern Bloc nations.

The 4 p.m. ceremony will be free and open to the public. It will feature flags of the more than 20 countries that became democracies at the end of the Cold War. Speakers include Gen. Paul X. Kelley, who was commandant of the U.S. Marines from 1983 to 1987 during the Reagan administration; Hans-Ulrich von Schroeter, deputy director of the German Information Center USA, German Embassy, Washington, D.C.; and Harold Fritz of Peoria, who received a Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War.

Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932.

A dinner will be at 6 p.m. in the Cerf Center. The cost is $20.

A 7:30 p.m. symposium in the Cerf Center will cost $5, or free for those who purchase tickets for the dinner.

The peace garden was built with a gift from Peorians Anne and the late David Vaughan. It commemorates President Reagan's speech at the college's commencement in 1982 that proposed the elimination of a class of nuclear weapons. Some historians mark the speech as the beginning of the end of the Cold War.