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History of Las Vegas
This year Las Vegas celebrated its 100th
birthday. Ever since the city site was created in 1905, Las
Vegas has been through many interesting faces, which eventually
made Las Vegas the Mecca of every gambling man or women on the planet. An overview of Las Vegas history can be found on this page.
1905 – The birth of Las Vegas
1911 - Las Vegas is incorporated
1926 -
The first commercial airline flight, Western Airlines, arrives
1931 -
Gambling is legalized in Nevada
1941 -
El Rancho Vegas becomes the first property to open on the Vegas Strip
1942 -
The Last Frontier Hotel opens it doors
1946 -
Bugsy Siegel opens the Flamingo Hotel
1959 -
The Las Vegas Convention Center hosts its first meeting,
the World Congress of Flight
1966 -
Howard Hughes settles at the Desert Inn
1975 - Nevada gaming revenues hit
the $1 billion mark
1980 - Las Vegas celebrates its
75th birthday
1981 - Las Vegas celebrates the
Golden Anniversary of Gaming
1985 -
The First National Finals Rodeo is held in Las Vegas
1989 -
The Mirage opens it doors on the 22nd of November
1990 -
The Excalibur opens . It is the world's largest resort hotel at the time
1992 -
The first Las Vegas Bowl college football game is held at the Silver Bowl
1993 - Nevada gaming revenues
hit the $6 billion mark
1993 -
The MGM Grand Hotel and Theme Park opens on the 18th of December 18 (5,005
rooms / 171,500-sq. ft.) It is the largest resort hotel in the world
1996 - 29.6 million people visit Las Vegas; the state gross gaming revenue
totals $7.45 billion
1997 - The New York-New
York Hotel & Casino opens on the 3rd of January
1998 - The Bellagio, billed as the most expensive hotel in the
world ($1.7 billion), opens on the 15th of October
1998 - A 66-year-old Las
Vegas resident wins a $27.58 million progressive
Megabucks jackpot at the Palace Station Hotel Casino
1999 - Mandalay Bay opens on March 2 with
3,300 rooms and the Four Seasons Hotel opens with 424 rooms
1999 - The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino opens on the 3rd
of May with 3,036 suites
1999 - Paris Las Vegas opens on the first of September
2000 - MGM Grand Inc. announces the purchase of Mirage Resorts
Inc., which will be the largest corporate buyout in gaming history
2000 - The new Aladdin Resort & Casino opens on the Strip in
August
2003 - In April, Caesars Palace opens the Colosseum, a $95
million contemporary replica of its namesake in Rome and home to Caesars Palace's newest
performer, Celine Dion
2004 - Harrah's Entertainment purchases Binion's Horseshoe
2004 – All around Las
Vegas mergers are being made. MGM MIRAGE announces
plans to purchase the Mandalay Resort Group. One month later, Harrah's
Entertainment announces its plans to purchase Caesars Entertainment
2004 - The Strip dims all its lights for the death of
President Ronald Reagan. This happened before when President John F. Kennedy,
Rat Pack members Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and George Burns
passed away
2004 - A $654 million mass transit system called 'the Las
Vegas Monorail', is now open for public
2004 - Las Vegas Sands gives new details about its planned
$1.6 billion Palazzo casino resort on the Vegas Strip
2005 - Las Vegas celebrates is 100th birthday throughout 2005, beginning with the New
Year's fireworks. Las Vegas celebrates its 100th
birthday officially on the 15th of May with the world's largest
birthday cake and a recreation of the 1905 land auction that started Las Vegas as everyone knows
it today
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