Nevada: Timeline

1861   Nevada is organized as a United States territory Political divisions of the United States

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1864   Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state U.S. state

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1924   Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the United States United States

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 takes place in Nevada.

1931   Nevada legalizes gambling

1949   February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska Nebraska

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, Wyoming Wyoming

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, South Dakota South Dakota

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, Utah Utah

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, Colorado Colorado

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 and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish

1951   First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert

1952   Nuclear test in Nevada desert.

1953   Nuclear test in Nevada - with 1620 spectators at 3.4 km

1983   Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph Miles per hour

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, driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

1996   Rapper Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur

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 is shot in Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada

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, Nevada following the Mike Tyson Mike Tyson

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 bout; he dies 6 days later on September 13.

1998   Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada, accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City New York City

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 subway METRO

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2000   Joseph Piscopo of Chicago Chicago

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, Illinois Illinois

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 marries Peangjai Onsee of Udon Thani, Thailand Thailand

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, in Las Vegas, Nevada.