* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

* 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.

In 1900 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.

Category: Host cities of the Summer Olympic Games

It became an official Summer Olympic sport at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and its gold medals now generally rate as the sport's most coveted prizes for individual players.

Category: Former Summer Olympic sports

Category: 1948 Summer Olympic venues

The area will be one of the four " Olympic Zones " during the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Category: 2016 Summer Olympic venues

The men's competition has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the first Olympiad in 1896.

Waldi, the mascot of the 1972 Summer Olympics | 1972 Summer Olympic Games

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, she won the Olympic title in the 800 m in a time of 1: 55. 54, a time which remained her personal best.

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

Category: 1928 Summer Olympic venues

Men's field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 ( except 1912 and 1924 ), while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.

In 2012, the canoe and kayak slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games took place in the town of Waltham Cross, within the borough of Broxbourne.

The IOC organizes the modern Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games, held in Summer and Winter, every four years.

The first Summer Olympics organized by the International Olympic Committee were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896 ; the first Winter Olympics were in Chamonix, France, in 1924.

After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another, and improve the financial balance of the IOC, which receives greater income on Olympic years.

* 1996 – Centennial Olympic Park bombing: in Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.

* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.

* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London.

It is governed by the World Archery Federation ( WA ), and is one of the sports in the Summer Paralympic Games.

Images of discus throwers figured prominently in advertising for early modern Games, such as fundraising stamps for the 1896 games and the main posters for the 1920 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

* 1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

* 1952 – The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

The World Cup ( Summer Grand Prix ) often includes those hills:

Summer training also includes training on trampolines, diving boards, and other acrobatic or gymnastic training apparatuses.

* The sound track for the 1971 movie " Summer of ' 42 " by Michel Legrand includes a lively piece called " The Bacchanal.

The cast includes Summer Strallen as Dale, Tom Chambers as Jerry and Martin Ball as Horace.

The first, simply titled Last of the Summer Wine, was released in 2003 and includes early episodes from the 1970s and 1980s.

The second collection, titled Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1995, followed in 2004 and includes episodes from series seventeen and the 30th anniversary documentary.

A 2008 release named Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1976 focuses on the third series of the show and includes bonus interviews with Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, and Frank Thornton.

Each Summer since 1974 ( typically in August ), the island hosts a weekend-long homecoming festival, and includes a theme parade featuring both locals and vacationers, a picnic, and a number of food and craft booths.

His works include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bathwater, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, Titanic, A History of the American Film, The Idiots Karamazov, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Laughing Wild, ' Dentity Crisis, The Actor's Nightmare, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Betty's Summer Vacation, Naomi in the Living Room, Adrift in Macao, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, Miss Witherspoon, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, and a collection of one-act parodies meant to be performed in one evening entitled Durang / Durang that includes " Mrs. Sorken ", " For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls " ( a parody of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ), " A Stye Of the Eye ", " Nina in the Morning ", " Wanda's Visit ", and " Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room ".

The guidebook The King of Fighters Perfect Reader includes the bonus CD Drama KOF: Mid Summer Struggle.

Likewise the genera Piranga ( which includes the Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager, and Western Tanager ), Chlorothraupis, and Habia appear to be members of the Cardinal family, and have been reassigned to that family by the AOU.

The 1-cent sales tax which the region will vote on in Summer 2012 includes funding for BRT to Stonecrest.

Other parts of the city's culture includes the Salt Festival where the historical salt economy of the town is celebrated, the Summer Night Festival, the Baker's Oven Festival and the Christmas Market which includes traditional handicrafts.

It includes Singing from the Well ( in Spanish also titled " Celestino before Dawn "), Farewell to the Sea ( whose literal translation is " The Sea Once More "), Palace of the White Skunks, the Rabelaisian Color of Summer, and The Assault.

This movie was the first of a long-standing collaboration between the famous director and Turturro, which includes work together on a total of nine films — more than any other actor in the Lee oeuvre -- including Mo ' Better Blues ( 1990 ), Jungle Fever ( 1991 ), Clockers ( 1995 ), Girl 6 ( 1996 ), He Got Game ( 1998 ), Summer of Sam ( 1999 ), She Hate Me ( 2004 ), and Miracle at St. Anna ( 2008 ).

This style has led to imaginative displays and festivals throughout the Disney resorts and parks, and mosaiculture ( multiple types and styles of plants creating a mosaic, living sculpture ) worldwide includes the impressive display at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.

Patterson's family includes daughter Sarah Patterson, who wrote the novel The Distant Summer in 1976.

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley composed A Summer Evening Churchyard here which includes the lines

* July 24, 1996 – Soccer at the 1996 Summer Olympics includes the final match for the US side, which needed a win against Portugal to advance out of group play, but tied 1 – 1 ( five other Olympic matches were played in RFK as part of the Atlanta Olympics ).

A retail plaza added in Summer 2010 includes a bookstore, coffee shop, and pizzeria.

Academic Theatre includes the English Department's Concentration in Theatre, Theatre Minor, mainstage productions, professional workshops, Theatre Alumni Hall of Fame, theatre scholarships, theatre work-study, theatre internships, Pre-College Summer Theatre Institute, Alpha Psi Omega and the Annual Anderson Memorial Playwriting Contest.

The album includes " Summer ", one of the most famous compositions by Hisaishi ; it was also re-arranged and used for Toyota Corolla commercials, for instance.

One such project, on Summer Street, includes the renovation and construction of new housing by the San Jose Conservation Corps YouthBuild job training and education program.