Events

• Phil D'Andrea is elected president of the Unione Siciliana, a Sicilian fraternal organization, in Chicago.
• April 22 - Baby Face Nelson
  Baby Face Nelson
  Lester Joseph Gillis , known under the pseudonym George Nelson, was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s. Gillis was known as Baby Face Nelson, a name given to him due to his youthful appearance and small stature...
  
  , hiding out with John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
  John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was an American bank robber in Depression-era United States. He was charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana police officer during a shoot-out. This was his only alleged homicide. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations...
  
  , at the Little Bohemia Lodge just outside Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin kills FBI Special Agent W. Carter Baum in a shootout.
• Spring - Headed by Meyer Lansky
  Meyer Lansky
  Meyer Lansky , known as the "Mob's Accountant", was a Polish-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States...
  
   and Johnny Torrio
  Johnny Torrio
  John "Papa Johnny" Torrio , also known as "The Fox", was an Italian-American mobster who helped build the criminal empire known as the Chicago Outfit in the 1920s that was later inherited by his protege, Al Capone...
  
  , organized crime leaders hold a conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to discuss the formation of a 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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• July 2 - 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 arrested for the armed robbery of a Hartford, Connecticut
  Hartford, Connecticut
  Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
  
   store. Sentenced to one year imprisonment in the Hartford County Jail, Castellano serves three months before being released in December.
• July 22 - John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
  John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was an American bank robber in Depression-era United States. He was charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana police officer during a shoot-out. This was his only alleged homicide. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations...
  
   killed in Chicago by the FBI.
• October - New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia orders a police raid on gambling parlors. This raid damages over 1,000 slot machines owned by mob boss Frank Costello
  Frank Costello
  Frank Costello was an Italian New York City gangster who rose to the top of America's underworld, controlled a vast gambling empire across the United States and enjoyed political influence.Nicknamed the "Prime Minister of the Underworld", he became one of the most powerful and influential Mafia...
  
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• October 9 - Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia
  Ferdinand Boccia
  Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia was a New York mobster and gambling racketeer who was killed by Vito Genovese, who would become a mob boss. Boccia's murder would force Genovese to flee the United States to Italy to avoid prosecution. He is the father-in-law of Andrew Ruggiano Sr...
  
   is abducted by Willie Gallo and Ernest "The Hawk" Rupolo
  Ernest Rupolo
  Ernest "the Hawk" Rupolo was a low-level New York mobster and hitman for the Genovese crime family. Rupolo would later turn informant and testify against family boss Vito Genovese.-The Boccia murder:...
  
   after a dispute with Vito Genovese
  Vito Genovese
  Vito "Don Vito" Genovese was an Italian mafioso who rose to power in America during the Castellammarese War to later become leader of the Genovese crime family. Genovese served as mentor to future mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante...
  
   over a fixed card game. Boccia is later murdered.

Arts and literature

• When the Kellys Rode
  When the Kellys Rode
  When the Kellys Rode is a 1934 Australian film directed by Harry Southwell about Ned Kelly. It was forbidden from being exhibited in New South Wales for more than ten years under the ban on bushranging films.-Cast:*Hay Simpson as Ned Kelly...
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122314/
• Jimmy the Gent
  Jimmy the Gent (film)
  Jimmy the Gent is a 1934 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Bertram Millhauser was based on The Heir Chaser by Ray Nazarro and Laird Doyle....
  
  (film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025330/ starring James Cagney
  James Cagney
  James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
  
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Births

• November 6 - Isoji Koga, the founder of the Dojin-kai
  Dojin-kai
  The is a yakuza organization headquartered in Kurume, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, a designated yakuza syndicate, with approximately at least 850 members....
  
  
• Americo Petrillo "The Cigar", 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 and associate of William P. Grasso
• Frank Salemme
  Frank Salemme
  Francis P. Salemme [Salemone], also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "Julian Daniel Selig" , is a Boston, Massachusetts mobster who became a hitman and eventually the boss of the Patriarca crime family of New England before turning government witness.-Early years:In 1957, while in prison, Salemme...
  
   "Cadillac Frank", 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"...
  
   leader and former member of the Winter Hill Gang
  Winter Hill Gang
  The Winter Hill Gang is a structured confederation of Boston, Massachusetts-area organized crime figures, predominantly Irish-American with a small Italian-American faction. It derives its name from the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts north of Boston. Its members have...
  
  

Deaths

• May 23 - Clyde Barrow, gangster/outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
• May 23 - Bonnie Parker, gangster/outlaw shot dead by Federal marshals
• July 22 - John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
  John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was an American bank robber in Depression-era United States. He was charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana police officer during a shoot-out. This was his only alleged homicide. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations...
  
   killed by the FBI
• October 9 - Ferdinand Boccia
  Ferdinand Boccia
  Ferdinand "The Shadow" Boccia was a New York mobster and gambling racketeer who was killed by Vito Genovese, who would become a mob boss. Boccia's murder would force Genovese to flee the United States to Italy to avoid prosecution. He is the father-in-law of Andrew Ruggiano Sr...
  
  , New York mobster