in the middle of the street appears in many magazines around the world. The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Boston Bruins in four games to win their second straight Stanley Cup. May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade. May 17 – The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel. May 23 Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin via gene splicing. Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed. May 27 The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people. A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces. May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside. May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times. June June 5 – A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles. June 10 – The first Apple II series computers go on sale. June 15 – Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years of Francoist Spain. June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence). June 25 – The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators. June 27 – Djibouti receives its independence from France. June 30 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded. July July 1 The East African Community is dissolved. The Championships, Wimbledon (tennis) – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon. July 5 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the