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    Apr 13, 2023 5 minutes

    MAY 1977: A dip into history from Custom Car and the rest of the world

    Istanbul, 1 May: 36 people are killed in Taksim Square when rightwinch gunmen open fire during Labour Day celebrations.

    Tel Aviv, 18 May: Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel.

    Paris, 19 May: After 94 years, the direct Orient Express service to Istanbul sets out from the Gare de l’Est for the final time.

    Nevada, 25 May: The US detonates a 51 kiloton nuclear bomb half a kilometre below the desert surface as part of the Operation Fulcrum test programme. Not to be outdone, the USSR carries out a test of its own at Semipalatinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan, four days later.

    Exeter, 27 May: Prime Minister James Callaghan officially opens the M5, following completion of the final section of the motorway.

    The final weld is completed on the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, less than

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