In 1829 a band of New Mexican traders en route to Los Angeles came upon a lush valley containing freshwater springs, described in their native Spanish as las vegas.
The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce issued a calendar for tourists, listing the scheduled times of the bomb detonations and the best places to view them.
Lucius Clay graduated from West Point in 1918 and became a military engineer, rising through the ranks to become the Army's youngest brigadier general in World War II.
President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta and confirm a plan to divide both Germany.
