Events

• 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...
  
   mob boss Alphonse "Al," "Scarface" 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 sent to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after his 1931 conviction for 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,...
  
  . Francesco "Frank 'The Enforcer' Nitti" Nitto
  Frank Nitti
  Francesco Raffaele Nitto , also known as Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti, was an Italian American gangster. One of Al Capone's top henchmen, Nitti was in charge of all strong-arm and 'muscle' operations...
  
   succeeds Capone as leader of the Outfit. But, since Capone is in prison, Felice "Paul 'The Waiter" Ricca" DeLucia
  Paul Ricca
  Paul Ricca, also known as "The Waiter" , was a Chicago mobster who served as the nominal or de facto leader of the Chicago Outfit for forty years.-Early life:...
  
   becomes the real, new Outfit boss. With all of Chicago's organized crime activity consolidated into the Outfit, that organization begins to resemble the modern day National Crime Syndicate
  National Crime Syndicate
  The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to a loosely-organized multi-ethnic organized crime syndicate. Its origins are uncertain....
  
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• Charles "Lucky" Luciano begins employing Louis "Lepke" 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...
  
  's "The Combination (called Murder, Inc.
  Murder, Inc.
  Murder, Inc. was the name given by the press to organized crime groups in the 1920s through the 1940s that resulted in hundreds of murders on behalf of the American Mafia and Jewish Mafia groups who together formed the early organized crime groups in New York and...
  
   by the press) for National Crime Syndicate
  National Crime Syndicate
  The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to a loosely-organized multi-ethnic organized crime syndicate. Its origins are uncertain....
  
   murder contracts.
• Future Gambino crime family
  Gambino crime family
  The Gambino 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 group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963...
  
   leader, Paul Castellano
  Paul Castellano
  Constantino Paul "Big Paul" Castellano , also known as "The Howard Hughes of the Mob" and "Big Paulie" , was an American Mafia boss in New York City. He succeeded Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family, at the time, the nation's largest Mafia family...
  
  , is brought into the family] by boss Carlo Gambino
  Carlo Gambino
  "Don" Carlo Gambino, was a Sicilian mafioso who became Boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. After the 1957 Apalachin Convention he unexpectedly seized control of the Commission of the American Mafia. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive...
  
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• Sicilian mafiosi 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...
  
   dies in Rome, Italy while in prison.
• February 9 - Renegade hitman Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll is killed in a drive-by shooting at a public telephone booth while attempting to extort money from mob boss Owney "Killer" Madden
  Owney Madden
  Owney "The Killer" Madden was a leading underworld figure in Manhattan, most notable for his involvement in organized crime during Prohibition. He also ran the famous Cotton Club and was a leading boxing promoter in the 1930s.-Early life:Owen Vincent Madden was born at 25 Somerset Street, in...
  
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• July 29 - Pittsburgh bootleggers John, Arthur, and James Volpe
  Pittsburgh crime family
  The Pittsburgh crime family, also known as the LaRocca crime family, is an American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, United States.-Prohibition era:...
  
   are shot to death in a Pittsburgh coffee shop. The hits were reportedly ordered by Pittsburgh crime family leader John Bazzano.
• August 8 - John Bazzano is found stuffed in a burlap sack on a Brooklyn street He had been strangled, then stabbed to death. Bazzano's murder may have been connected to the gangland slaying of the Volpe brothers weeks earlier. Vincenzo Capizzi would later succeed Bazzano as head of the Pittsburgh crime family
  Pittsburgh crime family
  The Pittsburgh crime family, also known as the LaRocca crime family, is an American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, United States.-Prohibition era:...
  
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• September 1 - New York Mayor James J. Walker resigns from office, following his testimony before the Seabury Commission
  Seabury Commission
  The Seabury Commission investigations into the New York magistrate's courts and police department in the early 1930s led to wholesale changes in the method of arrest, bail and litigation of suspects in New York City....
  
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Arts and literature

• Scarface
  Scarface (1932 film)
  Scarface is a 1932 American gangster film starring Paul Muni and George Raft, produced by Howard Hughes, directed by Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson, and written by Ben Hecht based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Armitage Trail...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023427/ starring Paul Muni
  Paul Muni
  Paul Muni was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor...
  
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Births

• Salvatore Bonanno
  Salvatore Bonanno
  Salvatore Vincent "Bill" Bonanno was the son of Cosa Nostra boss Joseph Bonanno. Although his father never intended for him to be the underboss of the Bonanno crime family, his appointment to high positions in the syndicate precipitated a "mob war" which led to the Bonanno family's exile to Arizona...
  
   "Bill", Bonanno crime family
  Bonanno crime family
  The Bonanno 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 ....
  
   member and son of crime family boss Joseph Bonanno
  Joseph Bonanno
  Joseph Charles Bonanno, Sr. was a Sicilian-born American mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas," a name he despised.-Early life:...
  
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• Frank Imbruglia, East Boston gunman
• Ralph Scopo
  Ralph Scopo
  Ralph "Little Ralphie" Scopo was a New York mobster with the Colombo crime family who became a powerful labor racketeer. He was the father of Colombo mobsters Joseph Scopo and Ralph Scopo Jr., and the grandfather of Joseph Scopo Jr...
  
  , Colombo crime family
  Colombo crime family
  The Colombo crime family is the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia ....
  
   member and Brooklyn
  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
  
   labor union racketeer.
• Giuseppe Lambeti "Joe", drug trafficker involved in the Pizza Connection
  Pizza Connection Trial
  The Pizza Connection Trial was one of the longest criminal jury trials on record in the district of Manhattan. It took place between October 24, 1985 and March 2, 1987-Scope of the trial:...
  
   and cousin of Salvatore Lamberti
• Salvatore Lamberti, Sicilian mafiosi convicted in the Pizza Connection
  Pizza Connection Trial
  The Pizza Connection Trial was one of the longest criminal jury trials on record in the district of Manhattan. It took place between October 24, 1985 and March 2, 1987-Scope of the trial:...
  
  
• July 28 - Alphonse D'Arco
  Alphonse D'Arco
  Alphonse "Little Al" D'Arco , also known as "The Professor", is a New York mobster who became the acting boss of Lucchese crime family. He was the first boss, acting or otherwise, of a New York crime family to become a government witness....
  
   "Little Al", 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...
  
   acting boss turned government witness.

Deaths

• 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...
  
  , Sicilian mafiosi
• February 9 - Vincent Coll "Mad Dog", New York Prohibition, Irish-American mobster
• March 16 - Antonio Lonzo, New York mobster
• March 16 - Gerard Vernotico, New York mobster
• July 29 - John Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
• July 29 - Arthur Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
• July 29 - James Volpe, Pittsburgh bootlegger
• August 8 - John Bazzano, Pittsburgh crime family leader