Youth celebrate Kings legacy

MUNCIE Playing a game of bingo using dates from Martin Luther King Jr.s life taught Daijah Wheeler a few facts about the slain civil rights leader ,such as where King was born, where he died and where he gave his famous I Have A Dream speech.

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Mon, January 15th, 2007

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  • The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
  • 1946: Two famous landmarks open: Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo, and the Golden Nugget. Nevada levies its first gaming tax.
    1949: Benny Binion sets up a high-stakes poker game at his Horseshoe casino between Nick "The Greek" Dandalos and Johnny Moss. It turns into an epic five-month poker match, laying the foundations for the World Series of Poker.
  • Lotteries were brought to America in the 1800s by the thousands of Chinese immigrants who worked in the mines and on the railroads.