Sony hopes sports stars bring holiday cheer
Sony Corp. is betting on 16-year-old golf dynamo Michelle Wie to drive home sales of its cameras, laptop computers and flat-screen TVs during a holiday season critical to its turnaround.
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Gambling casinos history:
- Massachusetts decriminalized bingo in 1931 in an attempt to help churches and charitable organizations raise money. Bingo was legal in 11 states by the 1950s, usually only for charity purposes.
- The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
- 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build.
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