A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 18, 1976, at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, Nadia Comaneci of Romania became the first gymnast to receive a ...

Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci became a worldwide sensation when, at just 14 years old, she became the first gymnast in history to receive a perfect score at the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal.

African states won new power when they demanded New Zealand withdraw because of their rugby tour of apartheid South Africa. The 1976 Olympics marked a turning point in Olympic history: it was the ...