Missouri loss-limit bill loses casinos’ support
JEFFERSON CITY When Missouri voters legalized riverboat gambling in 1992, supporters talked of picturesque paddle-wheel boats plying the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
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Gambling history facts:
- 1905: The town of Las Vegas is founded when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company holds a land auction at the site on May 15.
1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time. - The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
- Although the Greeks had a profound understanding of mathematics they had no concept of probability, and assumed that the outcome of games of chance was due to the will of the gods.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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