Pensioner is bingo’s first £1m winner

A pensioner has become Britain’s first £1 million bingo winner after gambling just 60p on the game.

Tue, July 31st, 2007

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.
Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
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.
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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