Gymnastics By taybeags May 20, 1818 Creation of Gymnastics http://gymnasticshq.com/history-of-gymnastics/ Jun 19, 1956 Record for that most gold medals won in the olympics http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768378.html May 21, 1976 First perfect 10 http://gymnastics.isport.com/gymnastics-guides/history-of-gymnastics Jun 15, 2004 First American to win the gold medal in all around in 20 years https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/archivedbios/p/cpatterson.pdf Aug 21, 2006 Gymnasts can now score higher than a 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics