After the floor routine, Mary Lou Retton scored another perfect 10 at #LA1984. #Olympics #Vault #IndividualAllAround 4️⃣ 0️⃣ years ago today, she became the first American woman to win a gold medal in gymnastics. 🥇 Mary Lou Retton | Team USA | International Gymnastics Federation - FIG | Olympics

4️⃣0️⃣ years ago today, Mary Lou Retton scored a perfect 10 on the floor exercise at #LA1984. #Olympics #IndividualAllAround 🥇 Mary Lou Retton | Team USA | International Gymnastics Federation - FIG | Olympics

Remembering the great pianist and composer #MaryLouWilliams on her birthday. (May 8, 1910 - May 28, 1981). Since 1996, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has had its annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. She taught herself piano at the age of 3 and went on to write and arrange for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was a friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.