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Las Vegas Casino Limited history
Las Vegas Casino Limited company history timeline
1855: Mormons make first attempt to settle Las Vegas.
In 1905 Las Vegas was founded, a small town that was just established as a stopover for trains travelling between Las Angeles and Salt Lake City.
Land for sale 1905: The First United Methodist Church of Las Vegas is formed.
1906:What is now the Golden Gate Hotel & Casino opens as the Hotel Nevada in downtown Las Vegas.
1907: First telephone wires installed on Fremont Street.
July 1, 1909: Clark County is created.
First class April, 1926: Western Airlines provides first commercial flight at Rockwell Field.
21, 1928: The Boulder Canyon Project Act approved, authorizing construction of a dam on the Colorado River.
7, 1929: Work starts on Boulder Dam.
1931: Pair-O-Dice Club opens on Highway 91, which later is known as the famous Las Vegas Strip.
In 1931 construction began on the massive Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam), drawing thousands of workers to a site just east of the city.
1934: “Helldorado Days” begin, portraying the city’s Old West theme.
Thomas Hull is credited with opening the first hotel-resort, El Rancho Vegas, on the Las Vegas Strip in 1941.
25, 1941: United States Army creates a gunnery school that will become Nellis Air Force Base.
The Strip's first wedding chapel, the Little Church of the West, opened in 1942.
10, 1944: The Huntridge Theater opens as the first non-segregated theater in Las Vegas.
1945: J. Walter Thompson receives first advertising contract to promote Las Vegas tourism.
1946: Nevada levies first gaming taxes.
20, 1948: Alamo Airport becomes McCarran Field — now known as McCarran International Airport.
July 1, 1950: Hank Greenspun publishes the first edition of The Las Vegas Sun under the name of the Las Vegas Morning Sun.
Locally owned and independent since 1950; Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, best news website in the nation & DuPont Award for broadcast journalism
15, 1950: Senator Estes Kefauver opens a five-month probe of organized crime with a hearing in Las Vegas.
27, 1951: Nevada Test Site conducts first nuclear weapons test only 65 miles from downtown Las Vegas.
1951: Frank Sinatra’s first performance at the Desert Inn.
April 22, 1952: Media broadcast detonation of a nuclear device for the first time.
15, 1952: Sands opens as the seventh resort on The Strip.
July 22, 1953: Greenspun and other investors start KLAS Ch.
4, 1953:Las Vegas Park opens but horse racing lasts only 13 ill-fated days.
April 28, 1954: Roxie’s, a bordello off Boulder Highway, is raided.
28, 1954: Senator McCarran dies.
May 23, 1955: The Dunes opens, as the 10th resort on The Strip.
May 15, 1955: Las Vegas celebrates its 50th birthday.
1955: Nearly eight million people visit Las Vegas every year.
April 23, 1956: Elvis Presley performs first shows in Las Vegas at the New Frontier Hotel.
June 8, 1956: Silver Palace, Las Vegas' first two-story club, opens.
1956: Las Vegas annexes a mile of land, its first addition since incorporation.
April 3, 1957: Tropicana opens.
10, 1957: Showgirls make debut with “Minsky’s Follies” at the Desert Inn.
10, 1957: UNLV holds its first classes.
1958: The Stardust opens.
March 30, 1959: Nevada creates the Gaming Commission.
October 10, 1959: Freed's Bakery opens, supplying cakes and baked goods to Las Vegas residents, tourists and celebrities alike. (Promotional Partner) 1959: Betty Willis designs “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.
May 20, 1964: The film “Viva Las Vegas,” starring Elvis Presley and Ann Margret, is released.
June 3, 1964: UNLV holds first commencement ceremony as 29 students graduate in the “Centennial Class” as Nevada turns 100.
20, 1964: The Beatles perform at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
25, 1964: A rooftop fire causes $1 million in damage to the Sahara.
In 1966 Howard Hughes checked into the penthouse of the Desert Inn and never left, preferring to buy the hotel rather than face eviction.
May 1, 1967: Elvis and Priscilla Presley marry at the Aladdin.
1967: The first Las Vegas Marathon takes place.
July 26, 1969: Elvis Presley starts his shows at the International, signing up for four weeks, twice a year, for $125,000 per week.
1969: B.B. King plays first show in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace.
1971: The $3.5 million Las Vegas Stadium opens.
1971:Hunter S. Thompson first publishes "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" as a story in Rolling Stone.
In 1973, the Holiday Casino opened.
The Flamingo Capri, completely unrelated to the more well-known Flamingo, opens and runs until 1979, when it becomes Imperial Palace.
4 1982: Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal survives near fatal car bomb explosion.
1987: McCarran International Airport completes a $300 million expansion project that features a new central terminal, additional gates, and revamped runways.
She took over as publisher of the Sun when her husband, Hank Greenspun, died in 1989.
April 9, 1990: UNLV’s basketball team wins national title with a 103-73 victory over Duke in Denver.
The original MGM Grand becomes Bally's. (The MGM Grand would open at its current location in 1990.)
A tiger mauls Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy during their performance, ending their run at the Mirage which started in 1990.
Landmark imploded (imploded in 1990; now part of the convention Center parking lot. (WP)
Nob Hill closes (to reopen in 1992 as Casino Royale).
The Dunes opens and lasts until 1993, when it is imploded to be replaced by Bellagio.
Casino magnate Steve Wynn’s daughter was kidnapped from her Las Vegas home in 1993 and the billionaire was forced to pay her abductors $1.45 million in ransom money that he took from his casino’s safe for her to be returned unharmed.
March 10, 1995: The world’s first Hard Rock Hotel opens in Las Vegas.
Landmark closes. (imploded in 1995; now part of the convention Center parking lot. (WP)
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Hacienda opens (and lasts until 1996 when it's imploded to make way for Mandalay Bay).
Vegas World closes (to be replaced by the Stratosphere in 1996).
7, 1996: UNLV becomes a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
1996: Siegfried and Roy celebrate their 15,000th performance.
Legendary US rapper Tupac Shakur was shot after leaving the MGM Grand Casino having watched Mike Tyson defeat Bruce Seldon in 1996.
Holiday Casino becomes Harrah's, though the new carnival/party theme won't be installed until 1997.
The Aladdin closes and is imploded in 1998, to be replaced by a newer version of the Aladdin.
The Sands closes and is imploded (to be replaced by the Venetian in 1999).
1999: Las Vegas became the world’s most visited place with 37 million tourists a year.
1996 – The Hacienda closes and is imploded. It is replaced by the Mandalay Bay casino in 1999.
Ernie's Casino opens in North Las Vegas, and lasts until 2001, when it's destroyed to make way for Wildfire Casino.
Siegfried & Roy begin their run at the Mirage, which ends in 2003 when Roy Horn is mauled by a tiger.
July 15, 2004: The Las Vegas Monorail opens to the public.
Westward Ho opens and runs until 2005.
2005: Harrah’s Entertainment became the world’s largest owner/operator of casinos after purchasing Caesars Entertainment.
Downtown Grand opens at the old Lady Luck (2006) site (Oct.
The Stardust closes, and is imploded in 2007 (to be replaced by Echelon). (Nov.)
February 2008: The largest hepatitis scare in the nation occurs in southern Nevada.
March 22, 2008: The eighth-seeded UNLV Rebels make it to the second round in the NCAA Final Four men's basketball tournament under coach Lon Kruger.
4, 2008: Barack Obama wins the presidency in the 2008 general election, taking Nevada by 12 percentage points over Republican John McCain.
June 16, 2009:United States Senator John Ensign, R-Nev., once considered a possible presidential contender, admits to an affair with the wife of his former upper-level staffer, triggering a scandal that lasts for months.
28, 2009:The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's new all-suite HRH Tower welcomes its first guests.
June 1, 2010:Barbara Greenspun, matriarch of the Greenspun Media Group and the Las Vegas Sun, dies at the age of 88.
July 10, 2010:Eric Scott, 38-year-old United States Military Academy graduate, was killed in a hail of gunfire by three Metro police officers outside the Costco store in Summerlin.
July 22, 2010:Mandalay Bay wins the right to evict the Rumjungle nightclub and the club is closed.
8, 2010:The downtown Lady Luck property owners announce renovations for the mothballed casino and hotel.
19, 2010:Harrah's officially takes over Planet Hollywood.
13, 2010:The Plaza Hotel and Casino announces it will temporarily lay off 400 employees as it begins a renovation project on all of its guestrooms and hallways.
May 2011:O'Sheas closes after 23 years.
25, 2011:Anthony Carleo, the son of a local judge and the admitted "Bellagio bandit," is sentenced to serve at least nine years in state prison.
9, 2011:Executives say still no plans in place for the stalled Fontainebleau project on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Western opens. (Closes 2012.)
The Cromwell opens at the site of Bill's Gamblin' Hall, which closed in 2013
Bill's Gamblin' Hall closes, planned to re-open as The Cromwell in 2014 (Feb.
Clarion (near-strip, formerly Greek Isle) closes, and is imploded in 2015. (Sep.
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Hard Rock closes, to reopen as Virgin in March 2021. (Feb.
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