Rolling the dice: Casino giants take their Vegas battle to tables of Macau
MACAU — For two years, billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. has been the only U.S. casino operator to enjoy the explosive growth of gambling on this tiny nub of Chinese territory near Hong Kong. Las Vegas Sands already has one booming casino open here, and last week it staged a theatrical presentation, complete with Chinese drummers and dancers, to hype next year’s opening of a
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- 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino. - The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
- Dog racing (a race among greyhounds who chase after a mechanical rabbit) operates in 17 states. Jai-alai (a game similar to handball) is legal in just three: Connecticut, Florida, and Rhode Island.
- In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City.
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