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 ...

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 ...

RIDGEWAY, Fort Erie — As we look ahead to the Paris games, we're also looking back and celebrating Olympians from Western New York who competed in past games. Jack Mathias is a Buffalo native and ...