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The Thalidomide Trial

German drugs company goes on trial. Plus the Israeli airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews; Hands Across America; and the execution of the Queen of England, Anne Boleyn.

Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalodomide go on trial. Plus, Chechen rebels negotiate peace with President Yeltsin; the Israeli airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews; Hands Across America, the day millions of Americans formed a human chain to try to end poverty; and the execution of the Queen of England, Anne Boleyn.

Photograph: A Thalidomide child undergoes rehabilitation, 1963 (Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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