| 1910 - Denver, CO. Harold Smith, Sr. was born in Denver. At the age of 25, he and his family came to Reno. . |
| 1946 - Reno, NV. Bar of Music opened at 136 North Center St., Reno. |
| 1975 - Las Vegas, NV. The Vault Casino opens at 111 East Ogden Street, downtown Las Vegas. |
| 2017 - Islandia, NY. Grand Opening, Casino only has VLTs (Video Lottery Terminal - Slot Machines). |
| 1906 - Brooklyn New York. Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a Jewish American mobster. Siegel was known as one of the most "infamous and feared gangsters of his day". Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page-celebrity gangsters. He was also a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was not only influential within the Jewish mob but, like his friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate.Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Incorporated and became a bootlegger during Prohibition. After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, he turned to gambling. In 1936, he left New York and moved to California. In 1939, Siegel was tried for the murder of fellow mobster Harry Greenberg. Siegel was acquitted in 1942.
Siegel traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada where he handled and financed some of the original casinos. . |
| 1947 - Reno, NV. The Stork Club opened at 16 West Second Street. Encountering financial problems, the club closed in 1950. |
| 1974 - Reno, NV. Gambling began at the Reef Hotel, which had opened in January 1974 at 567 West Fourth Street. Through several ownership changes, the casino operated intermittently until it's license was revoked on March 22, 1979, and the hotel closed. Since then, the property has operated as the Golden Resort Hotel-Casino, the Pearl, Cheers and Howard Johnson's . |
