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On this day in 1976 at the Montreal Games, fourteen-year old gymnastics prodigy Nadia Comăneci received a historic perfect score (10.00) from the panel of Olympic judges. Also rated perfect for her routines in several other lower-level competitions prior to this performance, including the inaugural American Cup held in March of the same year at Madison Square Garden, Comăneci scored her first of six gold medals during the course of the games. Comăneci has lived in North America since 1989, defecting from then-Communist Romanian, just weeks before the revolution.