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Article #117: Over 2000 years of Lottery industry. Part2.

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In 1763 Spanish lottery El Gordo was their states.
founded. It ranges among the long-livers In 1967 New York was the second state to
as it still exists. renew lotteries.
In 1776 The American Colonial Army 1969 Amendments made to the Criminal code
started to be completely supported by the of Canada legalized gambling and gave an
funds from the lotteries. opportunity to use lotteries, build
In 1789 there was a peak of activity of casinos and license charity and religious
lotteries after ratification of the organizations where gambling can be held
Constitution and it lasted till according to the rules stipulated by law.
stiffening of the taxation and wave of A new application of lotteries was found
anti-lottery reforms. in America. Recruitment of soldiers was
Before 1790 lotteries were the most wide done by drawing. Later this system was
spread method of private financing in cancelled and it was replaced by
America. voluntary recruitment in the military
In 1790 50 colleges, 300 schools and two ranks.
hundred churches were built on income In 1970 lottery was retrieved in New
from American lotteries. The most famous Jersey. Manitoba and Quebec arranged the
university such as Harvard, Yale, first modern Canadian lotteries. The same
Princeton and Columbia were funded by the year in Soviet Russia there was a lottery
lotteries. trial called "SPORTLOTO". 49 kinds of
In 1817 in Low Canada (now Quebec), there sports were given ordinal numbers. 1,5
was an effort to ban all gambling. But it million sold tickets took part in the
failed. The society opposed. drawing. The ball with winning numbers
In 1820-1878 lottery corruption in USA were taken out from the transparent drum
became unrestrained. Either the prizes after a few rotations.
were not paid at all or were paid in the In 1971 the first completely automatic
amount much less than it had been lottery-tote system was launched in
announced. America realized that she America.
could not regulate lotteries that were In 1973 a corporation Olympic Lottery was
emerging every single second. As a result founded in Canada. It was aimed to
the mayors of the states included the collect funds for Olympic Games in
bill banning the lotteries to the agenda. Montréal in 1976. Scientific Games
In 1820-s in New Work the first Company developed instant lotteries, when
constitutional prohibition of the you can find out the result of the
lotteries in US was issued. lottery just scratching away the
In 1849 the state lotteries were held in protection cover.
Australia. In 1970 Sydney Opera House was "Sporloto 2" soon followed after the
built using one of them. first lottery in the Soviet Union. The
In 1856 "Act Concerning Lotteries" banned purchased ticket participated
all the types of lotteries in Canada. simultaneously in two drawings. Drawing
This Act in particular affected French lots were on the same day. Then the
and Catholic clergy, for whom lotteries organizations applied automatic lottery
were quite a substantial support. drums that were used in other countries.
In 1863 After the union of Italy the Stirring and selecting the ball was done
first national lottery Lotto was without involving a person. Manipulating
established. Drawing was held once a week such a lottery was quite difficult.
and the money went to the treasury. In 1975 advertising of American lotteries
In 1878 all the states except Louisiana in the media, including radio and
refused from lotteries. The lottery was television was allowed.
organized in 1869 and existed for 25 Since 1976 Russian could take part in
years. "Saturday Sportloto", and drawings were
In 1912 lotteries were allowed at the held with the help of lottery drums,
horse tracks in Canada. stirring of the balls was performed with
In 1917 Queensland State Lottery came the air stream. Borrowing from Canada the
into force in Australia. idea of financing sport, all the money
In 1930 Irish lotteries were launched and was applied for preparation of 1980
they were a big success in Canada and Olympics.
America because of the lack of lotteries In 1985 symbols of Russian lotteries
in these countries. They also included "Sportloto" and "Sprint" were created,
lotteries arranged for the interests of the balls from the drums started to roll
the Irish hospitals. out one-by-one.
In 1933 after 100-year ban the lottery in In 1987 a new Russian lottery based on
France was retrieved. It was called the tote
Loterie natinale. It was stopped only "Sportprognoz"(Sportsforecasting), the
before the start of WORLD WAR II. When participants were offered to guess the
the war ended, the lottery proceeded. results of the matches between the teams.
In 1964 legislative body of New Hampshire In 1999 the national lottery of Republic
established a state lottery, it related of South Africa was organized.
to the totes and was held at the horse 63 states are members of the World
tracks to get over 70-year federal anti Lottery Association. The list of
lottery statute. Lottery became a very countries where the state lotteries are
profitable business and many states held is constantly getting longer and
borrowed this idea and implemented it in longer.






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