Nevada became the 36th state to join the United States of America.
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The first of 126 nuclear tests started at the Nevada Test Site.
Construction began on the Hoover Dam in Nevada.
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada, US.
The United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test at the Nevada Test Site.
The US state of Nevada legalized gambling after previously banning it in 1909.
