Taiwan lifts casino ban
Two Taiwanese nuns chant Buddhist sutras while joining a demonstration outside parliament in Taipei against a bill aimed to lift the ban on casinos on January 12. Taiwan’s parliament on Monday voted through a controversial bill lifting a decades-old ban on casinos — despite protests that gambling could lead to a damaging decline in public morality.
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Casino gambling information:
- 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 games that we would recognize as modern roulette were introduced in Paris casinos around the end of the 18th century. In the mid 19th century the single zero game was invented in France, this reduced the casino's edge thereby increasing the odds of the player.
- Video Poker machines were introduced in the 1970s, when an oil embargo had a negative impact on Vegas revenues. The machines were popular enough to spark a recovery in casino business.
- 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.
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