Events

• Al Capone
  Al Capone
  Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early...
  
  's Chicago Outfit
  Chicago Outfit
  The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
  
   earns a yearly income of $108 million.
• Salvatore Maranzano
  Salvatore Maranzano
  Salvatore Maranzano was an organized crime figure from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss in the United States. He instigated the Castellammarese War to seize control of the American Mafia operations, and briefly became the Mafia's "Boss of Bosses"...
  
   is sent to New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   by Sicilian Mafia Don Vito Cascio Ferro
  Vito Cascio Ferro
  Vito Cascioferro or Vito Cascio Ferro , also known as Don Vito, was a prominent member of the Sicilian Mafia. He also operated for several years in the United States...
  
   in an attempt to unify the New York Italian-American gangs into a single organization.
• Chicago bootlegger
  Rum-running
  Rum-running, also known as bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law...
  
   Manley Sullivan becomes the first gangster to be convicted for federal tax evasion
  Tax evasion
  Tax evasion is the general term for efforts by individuals, corporations, trusts and other entities to evade taxes by illegal means. Tax evasion usually entails taxpayers deliberately misrepresenting or concealing the true state of their affairs to the tax authorities to reduce their tax liability,...
  
  . The case would establish the precedent of illegal income being taxable, an effective weapon against organized crime figures throughout the decade.
• Chicago gambler Jacob "Monte" Tennes agrees to sell his remaining shares of the Chicago Racing Wire service to newspaper publisher Moses Annenberg
  Moses Annenberg
  Moses "Moe" Louis Annenberg was an American newspaper publisher, who purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer, the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. in 1936. The Inquirer has the sixteenth largest average weekday U.S...
  
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• The Southside O'Donnell's gang kidnaps John "Jackie" Adler
  John Adler
  John Herbert Adler was a U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was formerly a member of the New Jersey Senate from 1992 to 2009, where he represented the 6th Legislative District. The district stretches from the suburbs of Philadelphia...
  
  , a Capone liaison to the Chicago police. Adler is held for, but is later released unharmed.
• Angelo Lo Mantio, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
  
   gunman, is hired by the Aiello Brothers to murder Al Capone.
• Capone gunman Louis LaCava is forced to leave Chicago after failing to take over the Cicero, Illinois
  Cicero, Illinois
  Cicero is an incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 83,891 at the 2010 census. Cicero is named for the town of Cicero, New York, which in turn was named for Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman statesman and orator....
  
   area.
• Sam Valante, recently hired by Chicago gangster Joe Aiello
  Joe Aiello
  Giuseppe "Joe" Aiello was a Chicago bootlegger during the 1920s and early 1930s who had a longstanding, bloody feud with Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone.-Arrival in America:...
  
   to kill Al Capone
  Al Capone
  Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early...
  
  , is himself killed while arriving in Chicago. New York gangster Antonio Torchio, also hired by the Aiellos to kill Al Capone, is killed by Capone gunmen as he steps off a train arriving in Chicago.
• Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
  , Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  , gangster Norman Leslie Bruhn is killed on the orders of John 'Snowy' Cutmore.
• January - Chicago saloon owner John Costanaro, a distributor for the Ralph Sheldon Gang, is killed by a rival bootlegging gang.
• January 6 - Theodore Anton, a restaurant manager above Al Capone's Hawthorne Inn, is kidnapped and later killed by the rival North Side Gang
  North Side Gang
  The North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early to late 1920s and principal rival of the Johnny Torrio-Al Capone organization, later known as the Chicago Outfit.- Early...
  
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• March 11 - Saltis-McErlane gunmen Charles "Big Hayes" Hubacek and Frank "Lefty" Koncil are killed, possibly by Capone gunman in retaliation for Koncil's recent acquittal for the 1926
  1926 in organized crime
  See also:1925 in organized crime,other events of 1926,1927 in organized crime and thelist of 'years in Organized Crime'.-----Events:*Sicilian Mafia Don Vito Cascio Ferro is arrested by Benito Mussolini and imprisoned...
  
   murder of Sheldon member John "Mitters" Foley, while driving through Southside O'Donnell's territory.
• March 28 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
  
   crime family leader Joseph Amato dies of natural causes and is succeeded by Joseph Vallone.
• April 4 - North Side Gang
  North Side Gang
  The North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early to late 1920s and principal rival of the Johnny Torrio-Al Capone organization, later known as the Chicago Outfit.- Early...
  
   leader Vincent Drucci
  Vincent Drucci
  Vincent Drucci, also known as "The Schemer" , was an American mobster during Chicago's Prohibition era who served as a lieutenant under Dean O'Banion's North Side Gang and later as gang boss. Drucci was one of the few mobsters to ever be killed by a law enforcement officer...
  
   is killed by Chicago Police detective Dan Healy
  Dan Healy (detective)
  Dan Healy was a Chicago detective who became famous when he killed the leader of the North Side Gang, Vincent Drucci, during an altercation on April 4, 1927.* Dean O'Banion* Hymie Weiss* George "Bugs" Moran...
  
   while in police custody.
• June 10 - While checking up on Frankie Yale
  Frankie Yale
  Francesco Ioele , better known as Frankie Uale or Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone before the latter moved to Chicago...
  
  's bootlegging operations in New York, Capone gunman James DeAmato is killed in Manhattan
  Manhattan
  Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
  
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• July - Ray Hyland, a gunman for Charles Birger
  Charles Birger
  Charles Birger was an American bootlegger during the Prohibition period in southern Illinois. His real name was Shachna Itzik Birger, and he emigrated to the United States as a child with his parents from the Russian Empire....
  
  , and Birger associate Arthur Newman
  Arthur Newman
  Arthur Newman was an American operatic baritone and actor. He began his career as a stage actor in St. Louis in the early 1930s and in 1939 began an opera career...
  
   are convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• August 7 - After being stopped by a US Coast Guard cutter off the eastern coast of Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
  , "King of the Rum Runners" James Alderman
  James Alderman
  James Horace Alderman was an alcohol smuggler during the prohibition era in the United States, and was known as the King of the Rum Runners. He was executed by the Federal government for the killing on the high seas of Sidney Sanderlin and Victor A. Lamby, U.S. Coast Guardsmen; and Robert K...
  
   kills a US Secret Service agent and two members of the Coast Guard while being arrested. Alderman is later convicted of murder and hanged in 1929
  1929 in organized crime
  See also:1928 in organized crime,other events of 1929,1930 in organized crime and thelist of 'years in Organized Crime'.-----Events:*Mobster Antonino "Tony," "Joe Batters" Accardo becomes head enforcer for Al Capone's "Chicago Outfit"....
  
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• September 9 - Alphonse Palizzola "Green Ones Gang" member killed (also 10-year-old boy)
• October 13 - Cleveland, Ohio
  Cleveland, Ohio
  Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
  
   gangster Joseph Lonardo is killed in a local barber shop, along with his brother John, by members of the Porrello gang. Salvatore Todaro
  Salvatore Todaro
  Salvatore "Black Sam" Todaro was a Cleveland, Ohio, mobster who briefly acted as the head of the Cleveland crime family during the late 1920s, while the crime family's boss was absent from Cleveland, away in Italy overseeing personal matters...
  
   subsequently assumes leadership over the Porrellos.
• October 16 - New York labor union racketeer Jacob Orgen
  Jacob Orgen
  Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen was a New York gangster involved in bootlegging and labor racketeering during Prohibition.-Biography:...
  
   is killed by Louis Buchalter
  Louis Buchalter
  Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was a Jewish American mobster and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc. during the 1930s. After Dutch Schultz' request of the Mafia Commission for permission to kill his enemy, U.S. Attorney Thomas Dewey, the Commission decided to kill Schultz in order to prevent the hit...
  
   and Jacob Shapiro
  Jacob Shapiro
  Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro was a New York mobster who, with his partner Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for two decades and established the Murder, Inc. organization.-Early years:...
  
  . Orgen's bodyguard Jack Diamond is severely wounded in the attack but would survive.
• October 26 - A shootout between Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   and Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
  , Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  , gangsters Joseph 'Squizzy' Taylor
  Squizzy Taylor
  Joseph Leslie Theodore "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian Melbourne-based gangster. He rose to notoriety by leading a violent gang war against a rival criminal faction in 1919, absconding from bail and successfully hiding from the police for over a year in 1921-22, and the Glenferrie robbery in...
  
   and John 'Snowy' Cutmore results in both men being fatally wounded.
• December 28 - Vito Gannola "Green Ones Gang" member shot 37 times and killed by two men claiming to police officers while hiding in his mistress house

Arts and literature

• Josef von Sternberg
  Josef von Sternberg
  Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...
  
  's Underworld
  Underworld (1927 film)
  Underworld is a 1927 silent crime film directed by Josef von Sternberg.-Plot:Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.-Cast:* George Bancroft as "Bull" Weed* Evelyn Brent as "Feathers"...
  
  is released starring George Bancroft
  George Bancroft (actor)
  George Bancroft was an American Hollywood film actor of the 1920s and '30s.-Biography:Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. During his early days as a sailor he staged plays on board ship. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become a "black...
  
  , Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...
  
  , Clive Brook, Fred Kohler
  Fred Kohler
  Fred Kohler was an American actor known for his "heavy" style of character.-Career:Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. He lost part of his right hand in a mining accident during this time...
  
   and Helen Lynch
  Helen Lynch
  Helen Lynch was an American silent-film actress.She was born in Billings, Montana where she was also raised. After winning a beauty contest conducted in her hometown, she soon went to movie studios and received little trouble gaining roles, starting out as an extra in 1918...
  
  . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018526/

Births

• Joseph Ferriola
  Joseph Ferriola
  Joseph Ferriola , also known as, "Joe Nagall," "Mr. Clean" and "Oscar," was an American mobster who helped run the Chicago Outfit, from 1985 to 1988, after Joseph Aiuppa and John Cerone went to prison for skimming Las Vegas casino profits.- Early life :Joseph Anthony Ferriola was a product of...
  
   (Joe Nagall), Chicago Outfit
  Chicago Outfit
  The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
  
   syndicate leader
• Christopher Furnari
  Christopher Furnari
  Christopher "Christie Tick" Furnari, Sr. is a Lucchese crime family mobster serving life in prison. During the 1980s, Furnari served as the family consigliere until his 1986 racketeering conviction.-Early years:...
  
  , "Christie Tick", Lucchese crime family
  Lucchese crime family
  The Lucchese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia . The family originated in the early 1920s with Gaetano "Tommy" Reina serving as boss up until his murder...
  
   member
• James LaPietra
  James LaPietra
  James "Jimmy the Lapper" LaPietra was a Chicago mobster and member of Chicago Outfit. He was also the younger brother of mobster Angelo "the Hook" LaPietra....
  
  , Chicago Outfit syndicate leader (Southside) and brother of Angelo LaPietra.
• Ono Toshifumi, Ichiwa-kai Yakuza leader
• January 2 - Vincent Meli
  Vincent Meli
  Vincent "Little Vince" Meli was a Detroit mobster and acting Underboss of the Detroit crime family. The nephew of Angelo Meli, he succeeded longtime crime boss Anthony Zerilli following his imprisonment.-Early years:...
  
  , Detroit crime syndicate leader
• March 29 - Michael Rizzitello
  Michael Rizzitello
  Michael Anthony Rizzitello also known as "Mike Rizzi", was an Italian American mobster in the Los Angeles crime family. Rizzitello's criminal record stretched back to 1947...
  
  , Los Angeles crime family
  Los Angeles crime family
  The Los Angeles crime family is an Italian American criminal organization based in Los Angeles, as part of the American Mafia . Since its inception in the early 1900s, it has spread throughout Southern California. Like most Mafia families in the United States, the L.A. family gained power...
  
   Capo
• December 26 - Louis R. Failla, Patriarca crime family
  Patriarca crime family
  The Patriarca crime family, also known as the New England crime family and the Providence crime family, is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in New England, specifically Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts, and is part of the Italian-American Mafia or "La Cosa Nostra"...
  
   soldier

Deaths

• Norman Leslie Bruhn, Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
   gangster
• Sam Valante, Aiello Gang member
• January - John Costanaro, Chicago saloon owner and associate of the Ralph Sheldon Gang
• January 6 - Theodore Anton, Chicago Outfit
  Chicago Outfit
  The Chicago Outfit, also known as the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob and sometimes shortened to simply the Outfit, is a crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
  
   associate
• April 4 - Vincent Drucci
  Vincent Drucci
  Vincent Drucci, also known as "The Schemer" , was an American mobster during Chicago's Prohibition era who served as a lieutenant under Dean O'Banion's North Side Gang and later as gang boss. Drucci was one of the few mobsters to ever be killed by a law enforcement officer...
  
  , North Side Gang member
• March 11 - Charles "Big Hayes" Hubacek, Saltis-McErlane gunman
• March 11 - Frank "Lefty" Koncil, Saltis-McErlane gunman
• March 28 - Joseph Amato, Milwaukee crime family leader
• June 10 - James DeAmato, Chicago Outfit gunman
• September 9 - Alphonse Palizzola "Green Ones gang" killed
• October 13 - Joseph Lonardo, Cleveland gangster
• October 13 - John Lonardo, brother of Joseph Lonardo
• October 16 - Jacob Orgen
  Jacob Orgen
  Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen was a New York gangster involved in bootlegging and labor racketeering during Prohibition.-Biography:...
  
  , New York labor union racketeer
• October 26 - John "Snowy" Cutmore, Sydney
  Sydney
  Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
  
   gangster
• October 27 - Joseph "Squizzy" Taylor
  Squizzy Taylor
  Joseph Leslie Theodore "Squizzy" Taylor was an Australian Melbourne-based gangster. He rose to notoriety by leading a violent gang war against a rival criminal faction in 1919, absconding from bail and successfully hiding from the police for over a year in 1921-22, and the Glenferrie robbery in...
  
  , Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
  gangster
• December 28 - Vito Gannola "Green Ones Gang" Killed