The terrorists and their hostages were shuttled to a nearby airfield, but the captors later turned on the Israeli athletes and killed them with machine guns and a grenade.
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in Montreal.
On the 6th April 1896, the first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens.
American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 6th September 1972, nine Israeli Olympic athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group in the Munich massacre.
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