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Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136, in Leipzig on the eighth Sunday after Trinity.
The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal was transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern ti�
The first line of the Paris Metro opens for operation.
Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia.
During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it.