The Royal Nevada Hotel/casino opens on Las Vegas Boulevard, Nevada, and goes bankrupt before year-end.The Dunes hotel and casino opens on the Las Vegas strip, Nevada.

The Riviera casino opens on Highway 91 in Nevada.The Royal Nevada casino opens on Highway 91 in Nevada.The Nevada legislature creates the Nevada State Gaming Control Board within the Tax Commission casino gambling is made a privileged business, in which licenses can be denied without cause.Total government income from Lotto lottery in Italy: US$45 million.Rhythm and blues recording star Johnny Ace dies offstage during a show in Houston, Texas, by playing and losing at Russian Roulette.The Japanese government abandons its national lottery.Jennings slot machine company is bought by TJM Corp. In Czechoslovakia, a national lottery is started.In Canada, an Act of Parliament makes all gambling houses, casinos, clubs, betting shops, etc.Malaya law prohibits gambling houses and other forms of public gambling.In Norway, total spending on the state lottery is US$6.9 million.The Sands hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Malaya law prohibits lotteries, with exceptions.The Sahara hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas, Nevada.The New Zealand government opens its first off-course racetrack betting offices.The Silver Slipper casino opens in the Last Frontier Village at the Hotel Last Frontier in Nevada.Jennings introduces the 'Tic-Tac-Toe' slot machine, with first multi-line paying on two diagonal lines and three straight lines. A man from Coventry, England, bets (the equivalent of) 14 cents on the accumulator on four horses at 60,640-to-1 odds, winning US$8500, the highest recorded odds-against win.The Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce begins hearings in Las Vegas of state and local politicians, businessmen, and casino operators.New Zealand legalizes off-track betting on horse racing, only through the Totalization Agency Board.Voters in California, Montana, Arizona, and Massachusetts vote against legal casino gaming.The Desert Inn hotel and casino opens on the Las Vegas strip, Nevada, USA.Gambling rooms in Baden, Germany, are re-opened.References are numbered in, which are listed here.Ī number after the dot gives the page in the source.

To this site, not to copy these pages to other Chronology of Gambling (1950-1974) Chronology of Gambling

Blackjack on 84th and federal