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LasVegasHistory.appHeader = "Timeline|History of Las Vegas";
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LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1829","Spanish explorers discover area.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1855","Mormons first settle in Las Vegas.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1911","City of Las Vegas is incorporated.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1931","Hoover Dam construction begins in Black Canyon.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1931","Gambling legalized in Nevada.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1941","El Rancho Vegas opens on the Strip. ");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","El Cortez Hotel opens in downtown Las Vegas.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1942","Last Frontier Hotel opens. (Later called New Frontier and Frontier.) ");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1946","Bugsy Siegel opens Flamingo Hotel.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1966","Howard Hughes arrives to live at Desert Inn.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1989","Mirage opens with 3,039 rooms.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1990","Excalibur opens; to date the world's largest resort hotel with 4,032 rooms.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1993","Dunes Hotel sold to Steve Wynn's Mirage Inc.; the north tower and Dunes sign imploded.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Dunes Hotel imploded.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Luxor Hotel opens with 2,526 rooms.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Treasure Island Hotel opens with 2,900 rooms.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","MGM Grand Hotel and Theme Park opens with 5,005 rooms and a 171,500- square-foot casino; to date the largest resort hotel-casino in the world.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","$25 million monorail begins running between MGM Grand and Bally's hotel-casinos. ");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Landmark Hotel imploded.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1996","Wayne Newton celebrates his 25,000th Las Vegas performance. ");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Stratosphere Tower, the tallest free-standing observation tower in the U.S., opens.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Monte Carlo, a joint venture between Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. and Mirage Resorts Inc., opens.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","The Sands Hotel, after 44 years of continuous operation, is closed by owner Sheldon Adelson who announces plans to build a 6,000-room megaresort on the site. ");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Sands tower imploded.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Circus Circus implodes Hacienda Hotel Casino.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1997","New York-New York Hotel Casino opens.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","The Aladdin Hotel closes.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1998","Starwood Hotels & Resorts buys ITT Corp. for $14.6 billion.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","The Aladdin Hotel is imploded.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Bellagio, billed as the most expensive hotel in the world ($1.7 billion) opens.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("1999","Mandalay Bay Resort opens with 3,300 rooms.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Phase I of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino opens with 3,036 suites.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Paris Las Vegas Casino Resort opens.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Tina Turner, Wayne Newton and Don Rickles are among the many entertainers booked by Las Vegas resorts to ring in the new century.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("2000","Caesars World Inc. is sold to Park Place Entertainment for $3 billion.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","MGM Grand Inc. announces the purchase of Mirage Resorts Inc., creating the largest corporate buyout in gaming history.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("2003","The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority debuts its new advertising campaign with the tagline, \"What Happens Here, Stays Here.\"");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("","Mandalay Bay opens new 1,120-suite tower, THEhotel.");
LasVegasHistory.rows[i++] = new Array("2004","The Las Vegas Monorail, a $654 million mass transit system, opens.");

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