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Pete Rose, baseball's career hit leader, was sentenced by Judge Arthur S. Spiegel to five months in a Federal correctional institution for filing false income-tax returns.

Willie Mays becomes 10th Major League Baseball player to reach 3,000 career hits

At the 122nd British Golf Open, Australian Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George for first place.

At 1976 Summer Olympics, Nadia Comaneci becomes the first in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics.

Nadia Comaneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at 1976 Summer Olympics.

At the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California in extra time Brazil won the FIFA World Cup 3–2 on penalties.

Former NFL football and MLB baseball player Deion Sanders Sr. ("Primetime") hit an inside the park home run as a member of the New York Yankees team.

21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal, African teams boycott as a protest to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa.

At Wimbledon Roger Federer beat Marin Cilic in three straight sets for a record 8th Wimbledon men's title.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts to set her third world heptathlon record in three years.