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The first full-service casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip opened on the 3rd of April 1941 when the El Rancho Vegas opened its doors. This resort featured 63 bungalow hotel rooms and marked the true birth of the modern Las Vegas Strip.
Guy McAfee, a Los Angeles police officer and businessman, coined the name Las Vegas Strip. He named the stretch of road after his hometown's famous Sunset Strip in Hollywood to create a cultural bridge between the West Coast entertainment capital and the desert frontier.
Clark County defines the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip as the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. This sign was built in 1959 and stands exactly 4.5 miles south of the city limits of Las Vegas.
A gunman inside the Mandalay Bay hotel opened fire upon a nearby concert on the 1st of October 2017. This incident killed 60 people and remains the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
The first MGM Grand Hotel and Casino opened in 1973 with 2,084 rooms, making it the largest hotel in the world at the time. It later suffered the worst resort fire in Las Vegas history on the 21st of November 1980 before reopening eight months later.
The new Las Vegas Stadium is set to open in 2028 for the 2028 MLB season. It will be built on the site of the former Tropicana Las Vegas, which was demolished in October 2024.