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 ...

LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - British swimmer David Wilkie, who stopped a U.S. men's sweep in the pool by winning 200m breaststroke gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, has died of cancer aged 70, his ...

David Wilkie, a world record setting breaststroker and ISHOF inductee who won gold at the 1976 Olympics, died on May 22. He was 70 years old. His family released a statement, saying: “It is with great ...

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 ...